Learning Preference:“A learners selection or choice of certain types of activities, situations or climate”

Learning Style:“An attribute of a learner used to interact with the learning situation”

Preference:•Myers – Briggs: Personality Variables•Multiple Intelligences: Innate Talent

Style:•Barb & Swassing/Torres/Fleming: Inputs•Kolb: perceiving and processing

“Intelligence”

What is Intelligence?

Gardner says……It’s the ability:

•To solve problems•To handle crises•To produce something of value to one’s culture

Intelligence is a multiple phenomenon that occurs in many different parts of the brain/mind/body system. There are many forms of intelligence, many ways through which people know and understand themselves and the world. Gardner says there are at least eight.

Intelligent thoughts

• Intelligence is not a static state reality that is fixed at birth. It is a dynamic, ever-growing, changing reality throughout one’s life.

• Intelligence can be improved, expanded, and amplified. The only limit to one’s intelligence seems to be individual beliefs about what is possible.

• Intelligence can be taught to others. One can learn how to be more intelligent by activating more levels of perception and knowing within daily living

Your MI Profile

• Your unique profile; your ability to learn new information, see the world and evolve understanding

• A persons natural approach to interacting with their environment

Visual-Spatial Interpersonal

Bodily-K

inesthetic

Musical-Rhythmic

Mathematical-Logical

Naturalist

Intraperso

nal

Verbal-Linguistic

Think in pictures and images Good with spatial relations

Learn through visuals

“See” solutions

Think in words Sensitive to rhythms of words Communicate well through writing Learn by reading, writing, discussion

Introspective

Know themselves well

Have strong opinions and beliefs

Need time to process information

Keen observers Aware of environment

Can discern patterns well

Learn though classification

Use abstract symbols Enjoy working with numbers Learn through application of logic Rigorous, analytical, scientific thinkers

Comfortable with groups

Understand others’ motivations

Can influence others’ opinions/beliefs

Learn through interaction with others

Well-coordinated Enjoy physical

activity Use gestures and body language Learn though hands-on

activity

Understand musical rhythms, patterns

Emotions, intellect sensitive to music

Perform, create music Enjoy

music

Intelligence is…

knowing that you don’t know everything. We need others to support our own learning.

Inputs

Visual Learners

Visual learners relate most effectively to written information, notes, diagrams and pictures. Typically they will be unhappy with a presentation where they are unable to take detailed notes - to an extent information does not exist for a visual learner unless it

has been seen written down.

Visual learners make up around 65% of the population.

Auditory Learners

Auditory learners relate most effectively to the spoken word. They will tend to listen to a lecture, and then take notes

afterwards, or rely on printed notes. Often information written down will have little meaning until it has been heard - it may help auditory learners to read written information out loud.

Auditory learners make up about 30% of the population.

Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners

Kinesthetic Learners learn effectively through touch and movement and space, and learn skills by imitation and

practice. Predominantly kinesthetic learners can appear slow, in that information is normally not presented in a style that suits their

learning methods.

Kinesthetic learners make up around 5% of the population.

What can I do?

Visual Learners:         

• Need to see the teacher's body language and facial expression to fully understand the content

• Prefer sitting at the front of the classroom to avoid visual obstructions

• Learn best from visual displays including: diagrams, illustrated text books, overhead transparencies, videos, flipcharts and hand-outs

• Use Color! (see this presentation for an example)• During a lecture or classroom discussion allow

opportunity to take detailed notes

Auditory Learners:

• Use verbal lectures, discussions, and allow opportunity to talk things through / listen to what others have to say

• These learners often benefit from reading text aloud and using a tape recorder

• use verbal analogies, and story telling to demonstrate your point

• create mnemonics to aid memorization

 Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners:                         

• Tactile/Kinesthetic persons learn best through a hands-on approach / actively exploring the physical world around them

• Provide variety in materials and activities that allow for mobility ( find it hard to sit still for long periods)

• Allow for activities that requires them to be standing

Perceiving &

Processing

The cycle of learning

FEELING

Thinking

Doing Watching

Changing Learning into Knowledge by

action

Changing Learning into knowledge by

thinking

Taking in information

through senses

Taking in information

through thinking

Types

• Diverging: Combining learning steps of Concrete Experience and Reflective Observation.

• Assimilating: Combine learning steps of Reflective Observation and Abstract Conceptualization

• Converging: Combines learning steps of Abstract Conceptualization and Active Experimentation

• Accommodating: Combines learning steps of Active Experimentation and Concrete Experience