Analyze Learner :red_flag: It is going to be planned a lesson to help learner to develop in some skills. But, who are the learners?. Without having any information about learners, instructor can not organize her/his lesson appropriately. So, "The first step in planning is to specifically identify your audience" (Hassan, 2014, p.1). Moreover, accorting to Heinich et al. (2013) there are 3 main section to analyze learner in general; General Characteristics, Specific Entry Competencies and Learning Styles.
General Characteristics: General characteristis of the learners is a broad category to recognize them in the first place, which is very helpful to determine which methods and materials can be benefical for learning. (Heinch et al., 2013). In this step, instroctor states learners' lots of aspects such as age, background knowledge, gender, socioeconomic and cultural position and physical situation. Without having any of these information, lessons can not be productive.
Specific Entry Competencies: Another aspect to analyze learners is stating their specific entry competencies. This is about their prior
knowledge, skills, and attitudes about the topic. (Hassan, 2014). Being conscious of these dimensions are essential for actualizing learning. For example, if the learners do not have any knowledge about historical reading, they probably can not learn how to search about history of 18th century literature in England.
Learning Styles Individuals have different types of learning styles in which they can obtain the best learning rusults. Accoring to Gardner the duty of a equipped instructors is being aware of these diffrences and arrange lesson offering diverseness to supply each one of the students' learning. ( 1999, as cited in Heinich, 2013).
Perceptual Preferences and Strengths: The learning channel can vary learner to learner. And in which sensory gateway is the most suitable for learner can be determined one's perceptual preferences. Heinch et al. (2013), state that the main gateways are auditory, visual, tactile and kinesthectic.
Visual: People with visual tendency need to see for better comprehension. According to Zapalsk and Dabb (2002), it is need to be found ways to show visual matarials because the majority of learner are visual learners.
Auditory: Auditory learners are the people who learn better if they obtain informain in audio way. The students having auditory tendency like lecture and they can be succesful in traditional schools. (Zapalsk, Dabb; 2002).
Kinesthetic: This tendency is very different from auditory or visual in terms of implementation. Kinesthectic learning are based on physical movement and try something in order to learn. Play games, going on a trip or studying outside the classroom can be constructive for kinesthetic learners. (Zapalska et al. 1998, et al.1999, et al.
2000, Sousa 1997, 1999; as cited in Zapalsk and Dabb, 2002).
Tactile: Tactile learners need to physically touch the target or related things with target object. For example, getting geometrical shapes to the class and asking to say their names to students covering their eyes can be a nice way to help them learn these shapes' names.
Motivational Factors: How the learners feel can affect the perceiving of learning process in both negative and positive way. Various factors determine the subject, the degree of paying attention and effort to learn a specific subject. (Heinich et al., 2013). In addition, the desire or insclination can come from internal or extarnal factors.
Intrinsic Factors: Intrinsic foctors are generally related with past experiences and individual desires. For instance an enjoyable task can increase stundets' desire to complete and in this manner learning is actualized. "Researchers have found that intrinsic motivators are generaly more effective." (Heinich et al., 2013, p. 51).
Extrinsic Factors: These are the motivators coming from the outside, extarnally. For example, trying to get high degree or obtaning a reward can be counted in these factors.
Physiological Factors: Physiological components are important aspects of learning process because learners' bodies and environmental conditions determine the method, time or the topic itself. To illustrate, if the learners have physiological disability, the instructor needs to find special ways to help them learn differently from the ones having not. In addition, if the enviromental conditions are not suitable such as too hot or too cold, then the learning process can be undermined.
Information Processing Habits: This category examines the way how individuals process the information in cognitive aspect. Learners are grouped according to concrete versus abstact and random versus sequential. ( Gregor, 1986; as citen in Heinich et al., 2013).
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Abstarct Random: They prefer human-mediated presentation as they can get the massages from speaker's style of talking, tone and gestures besides the main point.
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