Learn in your own way
Featured in the Continuing Professional Development training manual
By Sandy McMillan
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
After summarising the relevance of learning styles, this training activity gives participants ways of exploiting their learning preferences and becoming more versatile learners. It leads to an answer to the question, ‘What suits you best?’ There is a strong focus on people’s experience, and on developing learning abilities and mutual mentoring skills.
You introduce the concept of learning styles by presenting four clusters of behaviour and asking individuals to rank these in order of preference. You then describe the Learning Styles identified by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford, relating the descriptions to the four clusters of behaviour. You go on to discuss the implications of each style for CPD, and suggest ways in which people can exploit their preferences and build on them. Individuals then draw on a recent experience to practise working their way around the learning cycle and gain experience in one way of recording CPD. Finally, mentor pairs work together to define some useful new knowledge or skill, identify a new experience that will provide it, and initiate the learning cycle. They write action plans for themselves on a Planning and Learning log. Issues are shared in the full group to end the activity.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers, after summarising the relevance of learning styles, to give participants ways of exploiting their learning preferences and becoming more versatile learners. It leads to an answer to the question, ‘What suits you best?’ There is a strong focus on people’s experience, and on developing learning abilities and mutual mentoring skills.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:25:00 |
| No of Pages: | 18 |
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Purpose: This is the fourth of a series of five linked and consecutive training activities, ‘Auditing Your Assets’, ‘Set Your Objectives’, ‘Plan Your Route’, ‘Learn in Your Own Way’, and ‘Record to Prove It’, which together describe and practise the details of the CPD process as set out in ‘The Basics Of Your CPD’. Use this to illustrate the fourth part of the CPD process outlined in ‘The Basics of Your CPD’. It is preferable to precede it with both involvement activities and support activities so that people can mentor one another effectively.
Download the training activity, Learn in your own way as featured in the Fenman training manual; Continuing Professional Development