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Learning Styles: Building and Using SelfKnowledge Keys to Effective Learning, 6e Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Habit of mind: Keep learning.

“Intelligent people are in a continuous learning mode. Their confidence [and] inquisitiveness allow them to constantly search for new and better ways…They seize problems, situations, tensions, conflicts, and circumstances as valuable opportunities to learn.”

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Why understand how you learn?

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You can stretch your natural abilities.

Whatever your image of yourself‌ research proves that your intelligence can change and develop with focus and effort.

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Although you cannot often choose your circumstances, self-knowledge gives you the power to choose how to respond to them.

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What can assessments teach you about yourself?

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According to Howard Gardner, intelligence is:

“An ability to solve problems or fashion products that are useful in a particular cultural setting or community.”

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Two self-assessments Multiple Intelligences

Personality Spectrum

• Learning preferences • What abilities and areas of learning come most easily to you

• Personality traits • How you interact with information and people

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Multiple Intelligences • • • •

Verbal-Linguistic Logical-Mathematical Bodily-Kinesthetic Visual-Spatial

• • • •

Interpersonal Intrapersonal Musical Naturalistic

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Multiple Pathways to Learning Sample Question Directions: Rate each statement. Write the number of your response (1-4) on the line next to the statement (1=rarely, 2=sometimes, 3=usually, and 4=always) and total the scores for each set of six questions.

Example:

1. ___ I enjoy physical activities.

2. ___ I am uncomfortable sitting still.

3. ___ I prefer to learn through doing.

4. ___ When sitting, I move my legs or my hands.

5. ___ I enjoy working with my hands.

6. ___ I like to pace when I’m thinking or studying. ____ TOTAL for Bodily-Kinesthetic Keys to Effective Learning 6e,Ch02

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Scoring Multiple Pathways to Learning For each intelligence, shade the box in the row that corresponds with the range where your score falls.

20–24 Highly Developed

14–19 Moderately Developed

Below 14 Underdeveloped

BodilyKinesthetic Visual-Spatial VerbalLinguistic LogicalMathematical

Musical Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalistic

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Personality Spectrum focuses on how you interact with people and information.

Four dimensions: • • • •

Thinker: Analytical, problem solver Giver: Authentic, communicator Organizer: Responsible, detailed Adventurer: Daring, spontaneous

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Personality Spectrum Sample Question Directions: Rank order all four responses to each question from most like you (4) to least like you (1) so that you use the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 one time each. Write numbers in the boxes next to the responses.

2. I learn best when the material is

□ a. well organized. □ b. something I can do hands-on. □ c. about understanding and improving the human condition.

□ d. intellectually challenging.

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Personality Spectrum Scoring Diagram Write your scores in the four squares outside the diagram. For each of your four scores, place a dot on the appropriate number in the line near that circle.

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How can you use your selfknowledge?

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Knowing yourself brings you…

• Classroom benefits – Play to your strengths – Work to strengthen weaker areas – Ask your instructor for help

• Study benefits – Helps you pick the right strategies – Helps you understand others you study with Keys to Effective Learning 6e,Ch02

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Understand teaching styles • • • • • • • •

Lecture, verbal focus Lecture with group discussion Small groups Logical presentation Random presentation Conceptual presentation Detailed presentation Experience-based presentation

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Knowing yourself brings you…

• Technology benefits – Understanding the level of support you need – Knowing the tools that best help you study and connect with students

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How can you identify and manage learning disabilities?

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Problems in certain areas can indicate a learning disability.

• • • • • • •

Reading Math calculations Social skills Following a schedule Reading maps Following directions Writing

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Manage a learning disability to maximize learning.

• • • • •

Be informed about your disability Seek assistance from your school Be a dedicated student Build a positive attitude Rely on support from others

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Real People Keep Learning

Dr. Joyce Bishop

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“...no two selves, no two consciousnesses, no two minds are exactly alike. Each of us is therefore situated to make a unique contribution to the world.”

Howard Gardner

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