How Do You Learn Best?: KTC Students Find Out Their Learning Style

Quarter 1 Lesson 4

Example of the ELA Pre and Post-Test for Learning Styles

At the Kent Transition Center, our students completed the Learning Styles Inventory on Career Cruising.  Their pre-test and post-test was seeing if they knew the meaning behind the words that were used on the inventory; words such as tactile, auditory, and visual.  

Once the students completed this assessment, they would get a pie chart that informed them about their various percentages of learning style they predominantly used.  

The students now know what way they learn best.  This will help them in their futures because they will know what way they learn best and use that learning style in their workplace to learn their work tasks. 

Example of Learning Style Pie Diagnostic Page from Career Cruising

We also provided the student with basic writing support.  If you may not know, every day the KTC students participate in self-reflection on their work behaviors for the day.  They grade themselves on their dependability, professional behavior, initiative, and following directions.

Along with grading themselves with a 1-3 scale, the students also write sentences about what they did for the day or why they gave themselves the score the did in their journal.  I wanted to make sure that our students could write a proper sentence, so we covered the 5 things a sentence would need in order to make sense.   They then practiced a few sentences on the board, had to label what was the subject and verb, capitalized what needed to be capitalized, and ended off with punctuation.  Every teacher has signs in their classroom to support this idea and the students strive to write proper sentences every day.