You Are a Talk Learner!

As a Talk Learner...

I just want to talk out loud and bounce my thoughts off another person so that I can get my intellectual neurons firing. I talk to myself, my dog, my coworkers, other students, anybody who will join me and talk about things as I learn them. That way, I can learn by processing my thoughts out loud. I’m fine listening to what others have to say, but I need to be able to give my thoughts to them eventually out loud so that I can really process the information.

As a Talk Learner, I learn best by:

• Talking through ideas, experiences and concepts in groups in order to process information verbally with others.
• Working with a buddy to talk about key teaching points throughout the lesson.
• Answering questions that the presenter asks which are not obvious questions, but instead require synthesis (putting the information in my own words).
• Answering ‘application questions that allow me to have a ‘silent’ 1 on 1 conversation with the presenter in my mind. (Think alouds). This acts almost like a tutoring session for me in that I can answer question after question and talk through the presentation rather than feel isolated by lecture.
• Asking questions of the presenter and other audience members to talk through the answer on my own.