B. Learning Styles
Openness to and Curiosity about New Tasks and Challenges—Approaching learning with inquisitiveness or passivity characterizes a child’s style of learning
Initiative, Task Persistence, and Attentiveness—Enables children to develop and follow through on plans and tasks
Reflection and Interpretation—Includes the capacity to seek models, absorb information, and work through alternate possibilities
Imagination and Invention—Associated with the ability to form images of what is not actually present and to extend conventional thinking
Cognitive Styles—Refers to why children approach learning-- e.g., Do they separate details from background and analyze information (field-independent style) or vice versa (field-dependent style).