Sasha’s IEP (Individual Education Plan) doesn’t mention her learning style anywhere in the legal document, nor would it. However, teachers have found in the typical trial and error approach of viewing Sasha's approach to learning and her academic performance that she has a unique way of learning about the world around her: Concrete Random Learning Style.
Sasha considers herself intuitive and insightful which don’t necessarily translate into a definitive grade point average or consistent academic performance in any of her high school classes. In Algebra I, Sasha looks at a quiz and does the trial and error approach; if she knows how to do the problems, she does and if she doesn’t, she leaves the answers blank. She is delightful in the classroom and questions every teacher on anything that say is factual and documented.
The structure of the traditional high school experience creates discord in Sasha’s classroom experiences and in her perception of what she wants and needs for to make her life work more effectively. According to Anthony Gregorc’s Learning Styles, Sasha’s concrete learning style would be defined by the following attributes:
- Trial and error method of study
- Intuitive way of looking at the world
- Loves a rich and stimulating learning environment
- Embraces competition
- Implements change
- Impulsive socially and academically
- Don’t like directions or like reading them
- Hates structure and currently hates 9th grade
