Learning styles (was: Fun With Apostrophes (LONG))

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Beth <belleps at o...> wrote:
> At 01:06 PM 2/27/03 +0000, Anne U wrote:
> >Richard, you sound a lot like me. I'm great with written words, but
> >often have a terrible time making verbal arguments or even 
completing
> >thoughts out loud ;-) This just means (according to a theory called
> >Perceptual Thinking Patterns) that you and I have a different type 
of
> >learning pattern than your friend does. I'd go into more about this
> >but it's a complicated theory - but I'm very impressed with it
> >because it has helped me explain (to myself and others) a lot about
> >why I NEED to write things down and DO NOT learn things merely by
> >hearing them.
> 
> This reminds me of a test I took in massage therapy school. At the 
> beginning of the course, they tested us to see whether we were 
visual, 
> oral, or tactile learners, or a combination. It was more for our 
own use, 
> so that we would know how best to study the materials. I turned out 
to be a 
> combination of visual and tactile, which meant that studying 
diagrams, 
> taking notes, and working with clay and models helped me immensely. 
> Listening to the teacher talk just didn't make the material stick. 
And I'm 
> much better with written communication than I am with oral. (In 
case you 
> couldn't tell. <grin>) I have to draw maps rather than just take 
verbal 
> directions, too. Once you've figured out your best learning mode, 
it really 
> does help to use it.
> 
> Fascinating.  :-}
> 
Yes, it is. I just Googled for "perceptual thinking patterns" and 
found this link to a webpage which (quite handily) was written by one 
of the people who led the PTP workshop I attended last September.
http://www.wapp.org/gorman.htm

Anne U
(whose pattern is Kinesthetic/Visual/Auditory - KVA; the 6 possible 
patterns are AKV, AVK, KAV, KVA, VAK and VKA)