Training learning styles

Learning styles assessment (could be done during a training session). 

Importantly individuals may have a preference for which of the four stages they prefer. Those who favour active experimentation will prefer to play with the system, discover for themselves what the available functions do, make mistakes and learn from how the system responds. Abstract conceptualisers on the other hand will prefer to read the user manual, access on-line help and discuss the characteristics of the system from a more theoretical perspective. A training programme which facilitates a mixture of learning styles is likely to be more effective in gaining information retention across a group. 

With acknowledgement for some of the ideas in this section above to Moss, G. (1989). The Trainers Handbook, Sydney, CCH State Training Board of Western Australia. (1997). Framework for Competency-based Assessment, Tfert/z, author Brightman, H.J. GSU Master Teacher Program On Learning Styles, Georgia, author.)... 

Write a training programme to address the extra skills (including safety and health aspects) which are still requited after considering your data from questions 1-3. Which learning style will best suit the skills - kinaesthetic (pltysically doing), auditory or visual ... 

When miners worked as apprentices, master miners could adjust their learning styles to the needs of their apprentices and the specific conditions. Young miners could learn a variety of methods by working closely with different miners. When British Coal introduced standardized training schemes, however, these new procedures could not take into account individual differences in knowledge and experience. One miner claimed that safety standards were created by safety managers who were totally separate from the safety culture at the mines. 

In each case, the instructor needs to understand that there are differences in learning styles that exist. The key is to try and combine as many types of activities and media as possible so that the trainees can have access to the way they learn best and also learn to adapt to other learning styles as applicable. This means that a training session might include a handout for readers, a lecture for listeners, and an experiment for doers, depending on the objective (System Safety Training, 2000). 

The key to accommodating learning styles is that all instructional strategies and media are selected as a means to help the employee and not as a convenience for the instructor (System Safety Training, 2000). 

It is important to emphasize individual growth and remember that employees have different learning styles with which they are most comfortable. Every employee is different and must be treated as an individual (System Safety Training, 2000). 

Professional socialization is the dynamic process whereby students learn about the professional role and the expectations of performance in that role (Chalmers et al., 1995). As part of the socialization process, individuals learn formal and informal values, attitudes, beliefs, standards of practice, styles of communication, and modes of interaction as they are socialized into becoming health care professionals. They are trained to think and act in certain ways that are consistent with the ways of their profession (Muldary,... 

This kind of meditation is not a substitute for learning selfobservation in every aspect of your life, but it is an excellent form of specialized attention training. The instructions I give above are very basic, but enough to get you started. If you find this practice appealing, it is very worthwhile to find some group that teaches this style of meditation and get further training. 

But what impressed Haber most deeply was America s bent toward the practical. Americans, he said, possessed an instinctive feel for machines and technology. The atmosphere of life is soaked in mechanical-technical ideas without any conscious effort, the eye of each person is trained, early on, to look at things in a technical way. We Germans, educated in more abstract style, are forced to learn this later in life with great effort. And while German professors concentrated on their theories, every American scientist tried to produce something of practical importance. Industrialists prowled the halls of academia looking for new ways to capture profits. 

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