St. Louis Park Community Education

Regardless of your age, it is always helpful to increase your understanding of how your current students learn and what your future students might need because students learn in a variety of ways. This course will focus on the influence of generational characteristics on learning styles. Your students learn differently than you do. Come find out how to help your students learn more and discover something new about yourself too! We will explore fascinating information on the brain and how each generation has responded to their unique “cohort experience." You will acquire the skills and information needed to facilitate Gen Y and the emerging generation of learners. Understand how your own generational characteristics impact your learning AND your teaching. Come away with our top 20 generational techniques for helping your students learn more. This course can be taken individually or as part of a certificate, click here to register for the full certificate class, Certificate in Learning Styles. Click here to see additional information about this individual course. CEUs/ILUs: 1.6 Length (in hours): 16 Class Dates: November 2-27 One Month Course optional additional $40 USD paid later for graduate credit from the University of South Dakota.

New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here’s what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same. But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently. In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum. Your instructors are some of the foremost authorities in the world on these subjects. They write, and speak around North America, on learning styles. Click here to see additional information about this certificate. Courses can be taken individually; click on class titles below. CEUs/ILUs: 5.6 Length (in hours): 56 Course schedule Students with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) March 7 - April 1, May 2 - 27, OR July 5 - 29 Gender in the Classroom March 7 - April 1, May 2 - 27, OR July 5 - 29 Generational Learning Styles April 4 - 29, June 6 - July 1, OR August 1 - 26