How to Coach Yourself and Others Essential Knowledge For Coaching

traditional classrooms. Converger Perceive abstractly, process actively, integrate theory and practice, are pragmatic, dislike fuzzy ideas, value strategic thinking, are skill oriented, like to experiment, and seek results and applications. Encourage productivity and competence, promote high values, teach skills for adult life, believe knowledge makes learners independent. They tend to be inflexible and may lack team skills Accommodator Perceive concretely and process actively, learn by trial and error, are interested in self-discovery, are enthusiastic about new things, are adaptable and flexible, like change, are risk takers, people are important to them, and they seek to influence. Enable student selfdiscovery, help people act on their own visions, believe curricula should be geared to learner interests, see knowledge as a tool for improving society, encourage experiential learning, and are dramatic, energizing, stimulating, novel David Kolb published his learning styles model in 1984 from which he developed his learning style inventory. Kolb's learning theory works on two levels: a four stage cycle of learning and 1051

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