1. Learning Styles
Trish Morgan

3. What is a learning Style?
A learning style is the way a person most easily learns and processes new information or skills. A preschooler does not have a learning style yet and a five-year-old might change his learning style by the time he is ten. Up on your toes you go! (

4. Things to keep in mind: 1. Observe patterns of behavior
2. Listen to the way a person communicates
3. Experiment with what works and what doesn’t
4. Focus on natural strengths NOT weaknesses
Learn more about learning styles
Your preferred teaching style

5. What style are You?
Gregoric Modle Mind styles

10. How do we remember?
Barbe-Swassing

11. Auditory
learns best by listening to verbal instructions and remembers by forming the sounds of words
Does not neccisarily mean you only need to hear something but does mean you need to hear it for yourself and say it to commit it to memory
May read alound, talk to yourself, or repeat instructions
Putting information to song, rap, rhythm can help them memorize things. Listening to how a word sounds may be important part of learning what it means.

12. Visual
learns best by seeing and watching and using Strong visual associations
Picture in your mind what you are learning
Daydream or get lost in thought
Learns best by associating pictures with words or concepts being used
Using visual aides, bright colored folders, flash cards

13. Kinesthetic
Learns best by becoming physically involved and actually doing something with what’s being learned
Constant motion “fidgety” or “wiggle worm”
Need some sort of action or the learning won’t stick

14. How do we understand?
Witkin model

15. Global or analytical Global sees the Big Picture
Analytical sees the parts

16. Analytical Strengths details Focus Organization Remembering specifics
Direct answers
Consistency
Sense of justice
Objectivity
Indiviclual competition
Doing one thing at a time

17. Global Strengths Seeing the big picture Seeing relationships
Cooperating in group efforts
Reading between the lines
Seeing many options
Paraphrasing
Doing several things at once
Giving and relieving praise
Reading body language
Getting others involved

18. How many ways can we be smart?
Multiple intelligences~ Howard Gardner

19. Verbal/Linguistics
Demonstrate Strength in the language arts: Speaking, writing, reading, listening
How can I use the spoken or written words?
Lectures, discussions
Word games
Writing Stories
Reading
Journaling

20. Logical-Mathematical
Display aptitude for numbers reasoning and problem solving
How can I bring numbers, calculations, logic, classifications, or critical thinking?
Number games
Science experiments
Brain teasers
Searching for patterns

21. Visual/ Spatial Learn best visually and organize things
How can I use visual aids, visualization, color, art or visual organizers?
Visual aids
Art activities
Imagination games
Charts, graphs, maps
Costumes

22. Bodily/Kinesthetic Experience learning best through activities
How can I involve the whole body, or provide a hands on experience?
Drama
Dance
Sports
Games
Scavenger hunts
Tactile activities

23. Musical Learn well through songs and rhythms
How can I bring in music or environmental sounds, or set key points in a rhythm or melody?
Using songs that teach
Rhythmic learning

24. Interpersonal
Social butterfly of the room and love to be around people
How can I engage students in peer or cross-age sharing, cooperative learning or large-group simulation?
Cooperative learning
Working in pairs

25. Intrapersonal
Self-aware and in tune with inner feelings, values and beliefs
How can I evoke personal eelings or memories, or give students choices?
Journaling
Writing
Independent study

26. Naturalist Love the outdoors Activities can include Nature study
Care of animals
Observing natural surrounding

27. Existential
Why are we here?
What is our role in the world

28. Things to remember
Each person is a complex and unique combination of natural streangths and preferences
There is no one best style to be
Can be helpful to learn from someone who doesn’t teach your style

29. Resources “The way they learn” by Cynthia Tobias
“Multiple Intellegences in the Clessroom” Thomas Armstrong
“Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century” by Howard Gardner
content/blogs.dir/10/files/2016/02/Multiple-Intelligence- Inventory.pdf