A learning style is a preference that someone has about how they want information is given to them. This preference also involves how their environment is, how they expect others to act around them, how they understand and process information given to them, and how they prefer to give information. According to the Gregorc Modle, there are 4 different learning styles. Dominate Concrete Sequential, Dominate Abstract Sequential, Dominate Abstract Random, and Dominate Concrete Random. It is important to know your learning style and the traits of other learning styles. When you know your learning style you can understand why you prefer to do things in a certain way and how your learning style meshes with others. Knowing the traits of the …show more content…
The overview of Dominate Abstract Random is having an intuition and being a people pleaser. The overview of the Dominate Concrete Sequential is being practical and straight forward. They make lists and schedules and don’t beat around the bush. I personally felt that I could relate to the description of the Dominate Abstract Random better. I am defiantly a people pleaser and I thrive with frequent praise. I can’t handle feeling unappreciated and I can easily be made to feel guilty. I fit Dominate Concrete Sequential because I do streamline my work to make it most efficient and I ask for as many details as possible in instructions. I can see how I am a mixture of the two traits but I think it’s because when I am stressed out I am in the Dominate Concrete Sequential style but when I am relaxed I am Dominate Abstract Random. While being in school full time and my job full time I would say I’m living my life 50/50 so that is why both learning styles applied to …show more content…
I believe learning styles are important to the educational system because then as teachers we can do little things to adjust our plans to make sure every child understands the learning material and is having a positive learning experience. I think learning styles are important because no 2 people are the same so why would those two people learn the same way. I like that there is a broad general description on how to better teach different types of children. I see myself using this information in my early childhood education classrooms often. I will be noticing other children’s learning styles easier and be able to adjust what I am doing to get through to them as easily as I can. I will also use this information to evaluate myself and figure out what I am doing and if I am making learning harder for children because I am comfortable with something but they are not. I find this information critical in the early childhood