What is your learning style?

What is your learning style? To know this, just take a glance and select your option. Based on the score you will know what kind of a learner you are and work on other learning styles too. Basically there are 7 kinds of learning styles: Linguistic, Spatial, Logical, Musical, Bodily, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal. Let us understand the characteristic features of each first. 1. Linguistic- This type of learner: • Loves to read, write and tell stories • Memorizes places, names, dates and trivia easily • Repeat everything word to word • Best learn by saying, hearing, seeing words What you can do to bring out the Shakespear in them?  Encourage their creativity  Ask them to write down words and phrases and it is locked in their memory forever  Encourage their participation in spelling bees and creative writing courses: short stories, novel, poems, haiku, etc 2. Spatial- This type of learner: • Are visualizers • Day dreamers • Stay away from reality (like me ;-) partially) • Good at working with pictures and colours • Very artistic What you can do to develop an international theme park from their imagination?  Allow them to develop their senses  Allow them to play educational computer games  Allow them to day dream under a tree (you won’t be able to restrict though)  Encourage creative endeavours 3. Logical- This type of learner: • Is mathematically inclined • Enjoy solving problems • Are logical and straight forward • Enjoy building blocks and solve puzzles • Will plague you with questions and curious to know how one thing relates to the other • Are good at explaining process rather than come up with just an answer • Learn best by classifying, categorizing, and working with abstracts What you can do to create another Star Trek Hero or an engineer?  Answer their questions with great patience and satisfy their hunger for knowledge 4. Musical – This type of learner: • Walks around humming • Studies with head-phones on their ears • Notice details in pitch and rhythms (unnoticed by normal listener) • Keep tune and adept at turning abstract into concrete objects • Learn best through music, melody and rhythm What you can do to give birth to a pop-star singer?  Incorporate music to teach lessons and difficult concepts  Ask them to write a song about the lesson  Teach them a song  Encourage natural love for music as they tune it into their lives and make it happier 5. Bodily – This type of learner: • Is never static…. Always restless and on the move • Keep touching things as they walk • Use body language to convey their feelings • Play sports rather than sit and read a book • Are good at multi-tasking • Are generally recognized as ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) • Display less attention span What can you do to help channelize their extra energy?  Implement active education  Take them on short field trips to teach subjects geography and nature  Incorporate sense development and interaction with space during lessons  Shorten teaching time (15-20 mins)  Change subjects frequently 6. Interpersonal – This type of learner: • Make many friends • Are good leader and communicators • Adept to any social situation • Peacemakers of family • Do best in group situations • Are patient, understanding, and emphatic What can you do to see him rule the state or the nation?  Encourage their love of people  Allow their association with different types of people  Provide opportunities to mingle, relate, interview, share and compare other people  Remember to support and accept their friends (though not always) 7. Intrapersonal – This type of learner:  Are lone and strong people  Are independent, and stand out from the crowd  Are silent  Have deep understanding of things  Are self instructors What can you do to encourage social skills?  Encourage social interactivities  Create situations to socialize (though you need to leave them by themselves)  Encourage their silent space Every learner may possess more than one or two learning styles. Learner with more than two or more learning styles display multiple intelligences. Determine your childs’ learning style and figure out ways to incorporate that learning style into your teaching. Continue to encourage the student to figure out alternative styles, and teach them how to bring each type into their life.