Affective (Attitude) refers to how people deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, motivation, and enthusiasm. In order to learn something you have to be willing to open up, believe in its relevance, and adopt behaviors and practices. There are five categories of the affective process. At the lowest level is receiving. Receiving can simply mean listening or having a willingness to be attentive and hear something. Next is responding, then valuing, organization and finally, characterization. Again, you must work your way up from the lowest level to the highest level. 3. Psychomotor (Skills) Psychomotor (Skills) refers to physical movement, coordination, and the use of motor skills to accomplish a task. This domain is specific to hands-on learning. Much of public safety training is tactile and requires mastery of skills. These physical skills are learned through repetitive practice. There are five categories of the psychomotor process beginning with the lowest level, imitation. After imitation comes manipulation, then precision, articulation and finally naturalization. When a skill has been mastered it becomes natural or automatic; one acts without even thinking about it. B. Learning Styles The four learning styles we are going to discuss today are from Neil The VARK learning styles model identifies Fleming’s VARK model. whether learners have a preference for visual learning, auditory learning, reading and writing or kinesthetic learning. Now at each of the let’s look four styles. 1. Visual learners Visual learners prefer the use of images to understand information. They learn best by seeing graphic displays, charts, diagrams, illustrations, handouts and videos.
Affective (Attitude) refers to how people deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, motivation, and enthusiasm. In order to learn something you have to be willing to open up, believe in its relevance, and adopt behaviors and practices. There are five categories of the affective process. At the lowest level is receiving. Receiving can simply mean listening or having a willingness to be attentive and hear something. Next is responding, then valuing, organization and finally, characterization. Again, you must work your way up from the lowest level to the highest level. 3. Psychomotor (Skills) Psychomotor (Skills) refers to physical movement, coordination, and the use of motor skills to accomplish a task. This domain is specific to hands-on learning. Much of public safety training is tactile and requires mastery of skills. These physical skills are learned through repetitive practice. There are five categories of the psychomotor process beginning with the lowest level, imitation. After imitation comes manipulation, then precision, articulation and finally naturalization. When a skill has been mastered it becomes natural or automatic; one acts without even thinking about it. B. Learning Styles The four learning styles we are going to discuss today are from Neil Fleming’s VARK model. The VARK learning styles model identifies whether learners have a preference for visual learning, auditory learning, reading and writing or kinesthetic learning. Now let’s look at each of the four styles. 1. Visual learners Visual learners prefer the use of images to understand information. They learn best by seeing graphic displays, charts, diagrams, illustrations, handouts and videos.
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