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Assignment 2, ECAC634
ReplyDeleteSiobhan Gillespie:
Project name: Finding Your Learning Style
Goal: Assess 1st-year Physical Therapy Assistant student's learning styles.
Objective: To help students increase barriers to learning and ultimately improve their ability to succeed in the Physical Therapy Assistant Program.
Rationales:
McClusky's margin theory characterizes the need to balance the load in a student's life and the power a student has to deal with the load. For example, a typical student in the program is taking two five-credit hour classes while working five days a week in their first year.
If students are unaware of their learning style and cannot self-assess along the way, they are likely to increase their load over their power. Once that occurs, it is challenging to catch up in the coursework and receive the required seventy-eight percent passing grade.
Providing a method of assessment, along with brainstorming with others who are similar, will help students learn how to reduce load early on in the coursework. According to McClucky's theory, this should then increase the power of the student to override their external and internal loads by limiting their learning comprehension load.
Design:
Educate the students on McClusky's theory of margin and its relation to finding their learning style.
Assess the student's learning style on the first day of the program by using the University of Connecticut's What Type of Learner Are You? Pdf https://achieve.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/391/2013/12/What-Type-of-Learner-Are-You2.pdf
Allow the students to form groups based on their assessment and brainstorm ideas to help each other promote a self-learning environment best suited for each individual's needs.
See the attached slide show for a demonstration: Learning Styles
References:
Merriam, S. B. & Baumgartner, L. (2020). Learning in adulthood: A comprehensive guide (4th
edition). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
University of Connecticut (n.d.). What Type of Learner Are You? Uconn.edu
https://achieve.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/391/2013/12/What-
Type-of-Learner-Are-You2.pdf