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Learning Theory - link back to page =How does learning occur? You decide!= In the space below please do the following: The student mentioned to me that she learns the best from me because I make things less complex when learning something new. How does my own learning style effect the way my students are developing their own learning styles? ||
 * Name of group members (not last names)
 * **Observation** || **Findings** || **Questions** ||
 * Nanda- I observed my 16 year old son learning a song. || I observed three different learning styles in action: spacial, musical and intrapersonal. || My son had a history teacher that used music as a teaching tool and he did well in the class. Did my son excel in the class because of the musical component? ||
 * Karleigh- I observed a seventh grade female student in my class. She was doing a warm-up activity, vocabulary review and completing a writing assignment based upon a newly learned brainstorming skill. || I found the student to be a little bit of a perfectionist. Once she is comfortable with a task she gets right into the routine and seems to be truly thinking and focusing on what she is doing despite any distractions. || How will the pressure she places on herself continue to affect her?
 * Billy- I observed my 1 year old nephew, Landon. His mother was teaching him the song, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". || There was not necessarily any evidence that Landon was learning the song and committing it to memory. He basically mimicked the words that were being sung to him. He did however make a connection to information that was already stored in his memory. He is already familiar with the word "up" and modeled it when he heard it in the lyrics. || Landon is a musical child exhibits a lot of emotion and excitement when he hears music (dancing). One question that I will have to answer through future observation is whether or not he learns better when he is exposed to music. ||


 * Conclusions**:

When choosing teaching methods, it is important to be aware of and incorporate the learning styles of individual students.
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