Like learning style, they are determinedly inoffensive, careful not to wound feelings or bruise egos.
Exercises, tagged to whatever learning style gets results, become more complex as performance improves.
One popular workplace tool, for example, is the Learning Style Inventory, published by the Philadelphia-based Hay Group.
Your skills, leadership roles, learning style and experience all contribute to who you are as a leader.
Math and Reading Help also points out that learning style differences may make online tutoring a challenge for certain students.
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Sounds good, as an auditory learner might say--except that there's little scientific evidence to support learning style, in theory or in practice.
That's true of the latest fad to catch fire: learning style.
An individual's learning style is usually determined by a pencil-and-paper test--of which there are now more than 50 available, with titles like the Cognitive Style Index and the Learning Style Questionnaire.
To further complicate matters, there is new information at different developmental stages of our kids' lives, and through various life events (a new sibling, moving, an illness), as well as appropriate approaches for each child's personality and learning style.
The most effective way to hire fantastic, loyal employees who will fit into your company culture and help you meet your goals is to hire them for their inherent abilities (that which can't be taught), such as personality, learning style and core values.
While my years as a debate coach taught me that collaborative learning often enables slow or recalcitrant learners to hide behind the drive and discipline of top achievers in a group, it also elicits a need to succeed in students whose learning style requires more hands-on experiences.
The sales pitch of one learning-style tester declares: "Knowing exactly how to speak to each individual will eliminate this problem forever!"
Learning-style theory proposes that each of us absorbs and processes information in one of several distinct ways: visual, auditory, tactile or kinesthetic, for example.
Studies, where they exist, are conducted with small groups, may not be peer-reviewed or published and are frequently carried out by learning-style proponents rather than neutral investigators.
Since it made the leap to the workplace a few years ago, companies like Bank of America, Cendant, Adidas and Levi Strauss have climbed aboard the learning-style bandwagon.
But there are some roles that are perfect for the specific management style, learning curve, and general work type characterized by telecommuting internships.
Munjal Shah, a Google product manager, said the company worked with about 100 fashion taste-makers such as celebrities, stylists, and designers to pick out clothing they like and teach Google's machine-learning algorithms about their style and tastes.
The education style is rote learning, heavy on facts and figures -- not on analysis or interaction.
I'm learning a lot from the different style of rugby in France and I believe that will make me a better player for my country.
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Mr Hobsbawm's deep learning, his lofty vision and, frequently, a charming style are all on display.
But in The Lab, young Chinese rappers like Red Star's Tang King are learning about music and starting to make their own claims about Chinese style.
The piece, it turns out, was composed by Dena El Saffar, a Chicago-born Iraqi-American who has spent years learning to play the august classical music of her ancestors, the style known as maqam.
The students receive a more personalised, rather than authoritarian, style of education and the teachers are encouraged to foster a learning environment which accommodates such an approach.
He's learning that having a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean having a lot of style.
"He's a wonderful collaborator, he's very generous and very open and was very interested in learning what the difference between a book and a movie was in terms of what the style would be, and not in the slightest precious about preserving stuff from the book, " Rudin said.
The gala, said the Mysore-style yoga teacher Eddie Stern, who was being honored Tuesday night, pretty much funds Bent on Learning's annual practicing budget, and pays for teachers to teach poses like shavasana throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.
Built in 1927 by Alexander Beer in the function-over-form style of New Objectivity, it has served many purposes throughout the years, originally accommodating 300 pupils learning Hebrew and traditional arts, then becoming a base from which Jews were deported to concentration camps in 1942, and finally being used as a military hospital until the end of World War II.
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