Supplemental Exercises

Welcome to the interactive Teaching to Variation in Learning web workshop. How you learn has a direct impact on your assumptions about how your students learn and, in turn, how you teach them.

This workshop uses five exercises, based on basic cognitive function ([1] receptive, [2] memory and learning, [3] cognition and thinking, [4] expressive, and [5] personality), to help you get a sense of how you learn.

After you have completed these five exercises, you will have a better appreciation of the many ways in which your students learn. As a result, you may wish to consider devising new teaching strategies for reaching the broadest number of students.

The exercises are based on those in the Sheridan Center handbook, Teaching to Variation in Learning, by Brian Hayden, Ph.D. At any time, you can link to this text by selecting Hayden Handbook.

At the end of each exercise you will be given feedback on your response. Keep in mind these exercises are not designed to gauge intelligence, but to raise your awareness of the wide variety of learning styles.

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