Native American/American Indian Preferred Learning Styles
- verbal sharing to help memorization
- non-competetive
- careful listening skills
- positive reinforcement is important
- community style approach- room for movement
- Interacting is generally via body language
- There needs to be a "safe" environment
- dialogue is small group orientated
- Silence is generally honored because there is a social mixture of differing "cliques" within the classroom
- tend to regard concepts holistically and visually/symbolically
- value wait time
- tend to observer before acting or questioning
- tend to speak softly and avoid eye contact with authority out of respect
- cooperative learning environments
- tend to not challenge authority figures