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Learning/Study
Preferences
for (S)ensing Law Students
Adapted from Gordon Lawrence,
People Types and Tiger Stripes 43
(1992).
Cognitive Style:
A Sensing law student favors a cognitive style that involves: |
 | memory of facts, |
| observing specifics, |
| processing data step by step, |
| starting with the concrete, then moving to abstract, |
| being careful and thorough, |
| aiming toward soundness of understanding, |
| staying connected to practical realities around them, and |
| being attentive to what is in the present moment
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Study Style:
A sensing law student favors a study style that involves: |
| a sequential, step by step approach to new material, |
| beginning with familiar, solid facts, |
| moving gradually toward abstract concepts and principles, and |
| approaching abstract principals and concepts by distilling them out
of their own personal, concrete experience.
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Instruction that fits S's:
Sensing law students do their best work with: |
| hands-on labs, |
| relevant films and other audiovisual presentations, |
| materials that can be handled, |
| computer assisted instruction, |
| first-hand experience that gives practice in the skills and concepts
to be learned, |
| teachers who provide concrete learning experiences first in any learning
sequence, before using the textbook, |
| teachers who show them exactly what is expected of them, |
| teachers who do not move "too quickly" through material, touching just
the high spot or jumping from thought to thought, |
| assignments that do not expect them to generate possibilities not based
on solid facts, and |
| Skills and facts they can use in their present lives.
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