Task1 - What Role Do Learning Styles and Strategies Have in Study Guidance/tutoring?

Our group's first task is to prepare a presentation of the topic "What role do learning styles and strategies have in study guidance/tutoring?". 

Step 1. 

We decided to find out more information about this topic and combine our findings later on. This way we will have a better understanding of the subject and be able to start working on the task. Here are my thoughts.

First of all - what is tutoring? I found this link. 

"The purpose of tutoring is to help students help themselves, or to assist or guide them to the point at which they become an independent learner, and thus no longer need a tutor."

"In addition, a successful tutor demonstrates a caring attitude. Caring consists of being organized for the tutoring session, being punctual, establishing a learning relationship with the student, developing unique teaching strategies, and becoming familiar with the learning process."

So now we know roughly what tutoring is. What about the role of learning styles and strategies in tutoring.

In my opinion:

• A tutor should be familiar with different learning styles and strategies (also with his / her own learning styles). 
• He should also know how to help and guide students with different learning styles (what methods / strategies to use so that tutoring meets the learning styles of the learners).
• A tutor guides a student to understand his/her ways of learning -> a student becomes an independent learner.
• A tutor teaches a student how to utilize his/her preferred learning style with techniques and tools specific to his/her individual thought process.

Some links we could have a closer look at: 

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSpage.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

feature=player_embedded&v=sIv9rz2NTUk

Some ideas of how to make the presentation more interacting:

• Having example students with different learning styles, and the audience has to vote what learning strategies they would use to meet the learning style of the student.
• http://www.knewton.com/blog/edtech/2010/12/15/how-to-make-an-interactive-lesson-using-youtube/
• http://college.cengage.com/education/valmont/technology/1e/shared/content/articles/ch03ttintles.pdf
• Show the linked video and discuss how a tutor can help students to become better learners if the different learning styles do not exist.