The 4MAT is a learning system that was developed by Bernice McCarthy. The system has four major learning styles, each of which asks different questions and displays different strengths during the learning process.
The styles are:
1. Why?
2. What?
3. How?
4. What if?
These styles are based on the work of John Dewey, Carl Jung, and David Kolb (Germain, 2002). John Dewey and David Kolb are the greatest sources of inspiration. The main idea of John Dewey is that learning comes from the experience - and according to Kolb, learning is a circular process and not a result. The process of learning differs from person to person and is based on our experience.
However, Carl Jung's theory, typologically speaking, about basic human differences is also the basis of the world renown Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). A personal assessment tool designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
Thus, 4MAT is a method for helping all learners be successful. It offers teachers a way to reach all the types of learners. It offers learners insight into their personal approaches to learning.
In addition, it is a model for teaching that will take any instruction to a higher level and it is a brain-based design that engages all learners.
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The 4MAT Model explains learning in terms of the ways people perceive and process information.
Experience–Perception by personal engagement–sensations, emotions, physical memories; the immediate; the self. Being in it.
Conceptualization–The translation of experience in conceptual forms–ideas, language, hierarchies, naming systems. An abstract approach to learning. Being apart from it.
Human processing–what people do with new information–occurs in an infinite variety of ways, all of which range between reflection and action.
LEARNING STYLE
THE BRAIN - RIGHT AND LEFT MODE PROCESSING
4MAT AND ASSESSMENT
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The styles are:
1. Why?
2. What?
3. How?
4. What if?
These styles are based on the work of John Dewey, Carl Jung, and David Kolb (Germain, 2002). John Dewey and David Kolb are the greatest sources of inspiration. The main idea of John Dewey is that learning comes from the experience - and according to Kolb, learning is a circular process and not a result. The process of learning differs from person to person and is based on our experience.
However, Carl Jung's theory, typologically speaking, about basic human differences is also the basis of the world renown Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). A personal assessment tool designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
Thus, 4MAT is a method for helping all learners be successful. It offers teachers a way to reach all the types of learners. It offers learners insight into their personal approaches to learning.
In addition, it is a model for teaching that will take any instruction to a higher level and it is a brain-based design that engages all learners.
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The 4MAT Model explains learning in terms of the ways people perceive and process information.
Experience–Perception by personal engagement–sensations, emotions, physical memories; the immediate; the self. Being in it.
Conceptualization–The translation of experience in conceptual forms–ideas, language, hierarchies, naming systems. An abstract approach to learning. Being apart from it.
Human processing–what people do with new information–occurs in an infinite variety of ways, all of which range between reflection and action.
Reflection–Transforming knowledge by structuring, ordering, intellectualizing.
Action–Applying ideas to the external world; testing, doing, manipulating.
Action–Applying ideas to the external world; testing, doing, manipulating.
LEARNING STYLE
Type Four
Dynamic Learning–Doing and feeling. Seeking hidden possibilities, exploring, learning by trial and error, self-discovery.
Creating original adaptations. Key question: If?
| Type One
Imaginative Learning–Feeling and watching, seeking personal associations, meaning, involvement.
Making connections. Key question:Why?
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Type Three
Common Sense Learning–Thinking and doing. Experimenting, building, creating usability. Tinkering.
Applying ideas. Key question:How?
| Type Two
Analytic Learning–Listening to and thinking about information; seeking facts, thinking through ideas; learning what the experts think.
Formulating ideas. Key question:What?
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THE BRAIN - RIGHT AND LEFT MODE PROCESSING
Left – Operates best through structure, sequence. Prefers language, is sequential, examines the elements, has number sense. Works to analyze or break down information.
Right – Operates out of being, comprehends images, seeks patterns, creates metaphors, is simultaneous. Strives to synthesize, consolidate information.
4MAT AND ASSESSMENT
4MAT offers teachers and trainers a guide for assessing learner growth through the course of a lesson.
In conclusion, as a trainer or instructor you have to consider the above learning system to transfer the knowledge to a skill to be used in real life.
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