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Learning Style Comparison
HSN/540 Teaching and Learning Strategies

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Learning Styles Comparison

In today’s job market employers are seeking individuals that are ready to take on new positions that require advance training. The job market is very competitive and the low skill jobs are disappearing forcing adults to return to school to learn new skills and be trained to fill these new positions. An Individual that is aware of his or her learning style will have a have a higher percentage succeeding in an educational environment than an individual that is not of aware of his or her learning style. In an effort to discover my learning style I will describe my learning
138; Harris,
Sadowski, & Birchman, 2011). The 4MAT system identifies four types of learners the first one is the imaginative learning followed by the analytical learner. The third type of learner identified by the 4MAT system is the individual that learns by common sense and the last type is the dynamic learner. The imaginative learner learns by listening and interacting socially contrast to the analytic learner that learns by observing, analyzing, and classifying subject matter (Merriam,
Caffarella & Baumgartner, 207). The common sense learner learns by doing, experimenting and

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the dynamic learner learns by creating, modifying subject matter, asking what if this occurs that what will happen (Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, 2007). The overall premise of the
4MAT system is that the learner will learn in a sequence order from Type 1 to Type 4 and move through four quadrants. Each quadrant represents a section of the brain and will move from concrete experience to reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and finally active experimentation. Multiple Intelligence theory (MIT) incorporates brain research and how different parts of the brain are responsible for learning. MIT stipulates that there is eight types of intelligences and that learning does not occur within one aspect of intelligences but it