Exploring Learning Styles: Strategies, Plans, and Goals

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of learning styles and their impact on academic success. It begins by defining learning styles and then delves into various strategies such as discussion, games, demonstration, drill and practice, simulations, and cooperative learning. The essay emphasizes the importance of educators adopting diverse strategies to cater to different learning preferences and enhance students' skills. Furthermore, it outlines a study plan incorporating both short-term and long-term goals, highlighting the significance of setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound objectives to facilitate continuous progress. The conclusion reiterates the significance of learning styles and the need for educators to create structured study plans to foster student development. The essay is well-supported by references to academic books and journals.

Learning Styles

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Different learning strategies.........................................................................................................1
Study plan with short and long term goals...................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Learning styles can be defined as the ways in which individuals adopt different things
which are learned by them. These are mainly used by educators for the purpose of enhancing
skills and abilities of their students (Andreou, Papastavrou and Merkouris, 2014). For all the
individuals it is very important to learn properly because it is the major element which can help
to attain long as well as short term carer goals. This essay covers different topics such as various
learning strategies. Apart from this, it also focuses on a study plan which is formed by taking
short and long term objectives in to consideration.
MAIN BODY
Different learning strategies
Learning can be defined as the ability of an individual to get the aspects which are taught
by their educators. For this purpose different types of strategies could be used by teachers in
schools and colleges. All of them are as follows:
Discussion learning strategy: It is one of the common learning strategy in which
individuals learn through discussion among their peer group. With the help of this learning
strategy all the students will be able to learn in best manner because there is no guideline for
them to discuss. This strategy helps to clear all the doubts with educator which helps individuals
to enhance their knowledge (Different learning strategies, 2019).
Games learning strategy: It also a learning style in which educators try to provide deep
knowledge to their students with the help of games. It is considered as the best strategy which
can help individuals to learn properly as it enhance attentiveness and sharpen the mind. Teachers
try top teach with the help of games in which students take interest. With the help of it learners
can explore different parts of games in the form of learning.
Demonstration learning strategy: This learning strategy is a method of visual approach
of learning which helps learners to examine processes, ideas and information. It allows students
to examine all the activities which are performed by teachers so that they may get engaged in
them. It is mainly used for small kids which are at the age of 3 to 5 as it is the starting of their
learning phase (Gu, 2014).
Drill and practice learning strategy: It is the most familiar strategy to the educators as
it is mainly used by them for small tasks such as memorisation of vocabulary words. It is also
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used by them to teach arithmetic facts to the students with repetition that helps them to keep all
the learned content in mind. It is also considered as the more sophisticated learning strategy as
compare to others such as games (Sternberg and Zhang, 2014).
Simulations learning strategy: It is the strategy in which instructional scenarios are
created where students are placed in a world which is showed to them by the teacher. While
using it educators represent reality in front of them within which they can interact properly. It is
the best way of learning because it can help to enhance constructivist learning (Lee, and Heinz,
2016).
Cooperative learning strategy: This strategy is also known as small group learning
because while using it educators create small groups of students in which all the members are
required to work together to complete a common task successfully. While using it simple or
complex problems could be provided by educator to the learners. Easy one could be a multi step
mathematics equation and the tough one could be as developing a design for a new kind of
school. It is also a good way to learn because it helps to enhance skill to deal with all the critical
situations properly (Hodson, 2014).
From the above discussion it has been concluded that there are various learning strategies
which could be adopted by educators for the purpose of providing best learning experience to all
the students. With the help of them abilities and skills to achieve long term career goals could be
enhanced (Truong, 2016).
Study plan with short and long term goals
The study plan with short and long term goals is as follows that can help students to
attain academic and professional success:
Goals Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time limit
Developing
ability of
reading
properly
This skill is
required to be
developed for
the purpose of
enhancing
academic
skills.
It could be
measures by
taking daily
reading test of
students.
For the
purpose of
attaining the
objective
continuous
practice of
reading could
This objective
is relevant to
the capability
of students
which is
required to be
enhanced to
3 to 4 months
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be done by
students.
study
properly.
Enhancing
skill of deep
learning
This skill is
required to be
enhanced for
the purpose of
increasing
professional
learning
abilities for
future.
It could be
measured with
the help of
yearly review
of students
(Willingham,
Hughes and
Dobolyi,
2015).
In order to
achieve this
objective
educators will
provide best
learning
environment
to the students.
It is related to
the skills and
capabilities of
students to
learn critical
as well as
simple content
properly.
1 to 2 years
CONCLUSION
From the above project report it has been concluded that learning styles are the ways in
which individuals adapt all the things which are taught to them by their teachers or tutors. There
are various types of strategies which could be used by them for the purpose of providing best
learning experience to students. These are discussion, game, demonstration, simulation,
cooperative, drill and practice etc. It is also very important for educators to create study plan for
all the students with long and short term goals so that their skills and abilities of performing all
the tasks could be enhanced.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Andreou, C., Papastavrou, E. and Merkouris, A., 2014. Learning styles and critical thinking
relationship in baccalaureate nursing education: A systematic review. Nurse education
today. 34(3). pp.362-371.
Gu, Y., 2014. To code or not to code: Dilemmas in analysing think-aloud protocols in learning
strategies research. System. 43. pp.74-81.
Hodson, D., 2014. Learning science, learning about science, doing science: Different goals
demand different learning methods. International Journal of Science Education. 36(15).
pp.2534-2553.
Lee, J. and Heinz, M., 2016. English language learning strategies reported by advanced language
learners. Journal of International Education Research (JIER). 12(2). pp.67-76.
Sternberg, R. J. and Zhang, L. F. eds., 2014. Perspectives on thinking, learning, and cognitive
styles. Routledge.
Truong, H.M., 2016. Integrating learning styles and adaptive e-learning system: Current
developments, problems and opportunities. Computers in human behavior. 55. pp.1185-
1193.
Willingham, D. T., Hughes, E. M. and Dobolyi, D. G., 2015. The scientific status of learning
styles theories. Teaching of Psychology. 42(3). pp.266-271.
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