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Understanding Learning Styles through the 4MAT System

"Hold On, You Lost Me!" by Mary M. Rydesky presents scenarios for understanding different learning styles and their impact on teaching effectiveness. It highlights how learners perceive and process information differently, categorizing them into imaginative, analytic, common sense, and dynamic styles. The 4MAT system offers a practical framework for trainers to align teaching strategies with diverse learning preferences, ensuring engagement and comprehension. This resource emphasizes adapting lesson plans to encompass all learner types, fostering improved communication and active participation in training sessions.

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Understanding Learning Styles through the 4MAT System

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  1. Hold On, You Lost Me! Mary M Rydesky 2008

  2. Differentiation of Instruction

  3. Scenario 1 • You are in a time crunch & need information. Which questions do you seek? • Why • What • How • If

  4. Questions 4 1 3 2

  5. Scenario 2 • Which kind of learner are you? • Imaginative • Analytic • Common Sense • Dynamic Dynamic Imaginative Analytic Common Sense

  6. Basic Premise • Differences in approach to perceiving & processing define learning style • Sensing & feeling • Thinking & judging • Watchers & doers • Four preference combinations

  7. Learner Style, Trainer Style • Favored learning style • Is efficient for you • Affects evaluation of presenters • Affects learner communications • Drives your training approach

  8. Perform Engage Practice Share Four Stages

  9. Perform Engage Practice Share Eight Stages FEELING concrete L R 8 1 R L 7 2 DOING WATCHING 6 3 active R reflective L 5 4 R L abstract THINKING

  10. Who Leads? Learner Active Trainer Active

  11. The First Three Steps • Connect • Attend • Image • Content • Concept • Context But first….

  12. Scenario 3 • Session is a Leadership Retreat • What are the learner outcomes? Leadership is a study in __________ _________ Concept Leadership Content

  13. Mat4 is a study in…. • Engaging • Sharing • Practice • Performing

  14. Value of 4Mat • Stretch exercises to improve trainer’s non-preferred learning modes • 4Mat is a study in _________

  15. What is 4Mat • 4Mat aligns the work of many learning theorists in a practical tool for EPSS • 4Mat’s facts include _________

  16. How to Learn & Use 4Mat • The text & seminars include _____ • Develop ‘ concept’ • Develop lesson plan for all four learner types so they • Are personally engaged • Understand the shared knowledge • Take part in rigorous practice • Perform the learning

  17. If 4Mat Works… • How do I apply it to my needs? • Leadership • Skills • Customer service • Company code of behavior

  18. Lesson Plans in 4Mat

  19. Hold On, You Lost Me! • Bernice McCarthy & Jeanine O’Neill-Blackwell • 2007 ASTD Press • (reference CH8124) • http://www.4mat4business.com • Free web training hour May 15th

  20. Resources • Deborah. 4MAT System.http://online.sfsu.edu/~foreman/itec800/finalprojects/deborah/4mat.html • Learning Styles & the 4MAT System: A Cycle of Learninghttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/msh/gifs/4mat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/msh/llc/is/4mat.html&h=390&w=500&sz=35&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=krTzTd81E9KsHM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3D4mat%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26sa%3DN • Leon, Eal, & Przasnyski. (2006) Captivate Your Students' Minds: Developing Interactive Tutorials to Support the Teaching of Spreadsheet Modeling Skills.http://ite.pubs.informs.org/Vol7No1/LeonSealPrzasnyski/ • McCarthy & O’Neill-Blackwell (2007).Hold On, You Lost Me! ASTD Press. • National Park Service. Civil Disobedience.http://www.nps.gov/archive/semo/freedom/Edukit/civil.htm (Click on 4Mat wheel for each section) • Niskanen, J. 4Mat Unit Plans. http://www.geocities.com/jeniskanen/4mat2.htm • 4MAT - Delivering Instruction That Everyone Can Understandhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.timeanalyzer.com/lib/4mat.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.timeanalyzer.com/lib/4mat.htm&h=401&w=454&sz=37&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=r7UUFcAxGTpjqM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3D4mat%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26sa%3DN • College of the Southwest. SOE's Conceptual Framework. http://www.csw.edu/208727.ihtml

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