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Discovering Your Learning Style: Maximizing Potential and Success

Explore how to identify and use your dominant intelligence, learning style, and personality type to become an active learner. Learn about multiple intelligences and ways to improve studying by leveraging your personality traits.

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Discovering Your Learning Style: Maximizing Potential and Success

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  1. Online PowerPoints to accompany Cornerstone: Discovering Your Potential, Learning Actively, and Living Well Fifth Edition Robert M. Sherfield Rhonda J. Montgomery Patricia G. Moody

  2. CORNERSTONE:Discovering Your Potential,Learning Actively, and Living Well CHAPTER SIX LEARN: Using Your Dominant Intelligence, Learning Style, and Personality Type to Become an Active Learner

  3. CHAPTER 6 OBJECTIVES This chapter can help you: • Identify and use your learning style • Identify and use your primary intelligence • Identify and use your personality type • Differentiate between learning styles and multiple intelligences • Improve active learning and studying by using your personality

  4. IS THERE A BEST WAY TO LEARN? No! Understanding your learning style, intelligence strengths, and personality type will help you to use your dominant traits to your benefit.

  5. EIGHT MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES • Visual / Spatial Picture Smart • Verbal / Linguistic Word Smart • Music / Rhythm Music Smart • Logic / Math Number Smart • Body / Kinesthetic Body Smart • Interpersonal People Smart • Intra-personal Self-Smart • Naturalistic Environment Smart

  6. VISUAL / SPATIAL PICTURE SMART Thinks in pictures; knows where things are in the house; loves to create images; best learns information with graphs, charts, pictures and maps.

  7. VERBAL / LINGUISTIC WORD SMART Communicates well through language; likes to write; good at spelling; great at telling stories; loves to read books

  8. MUSIC / RHYTHM MUSIC SMART Loves to sing, hum and whistle; has the ability to comprehend sound; responds to music immediately; performs music

  9. LOGIC / MATH NUMBER SMART Can easily conceptualize; can easily reason, uses logic; good problem solving skills; enjoys math and science

  10. BODY / KINESTHETIC BODY SMART Learns through body sensation; moves around a lot; enjoys work involving the hands; graced with some athletic ability

  11. INTERPERSONAL PEOPLE SMART Loves to communicate with other people; great leadership skills; has lots of friends; involved in extra-curricular activities

  12. INTRA-PERSONAL SELF-SMART Has a deep awareness of his or her own feelings; very reflective; requires time to be alone; does not get involved with group activities on a regular basis.

  13. NATURALISTIC ENVIRONMENT SMART Has interest in the environment and in nature; can easily recognize plants, animals, rocks and cloud formations; may like hiking, camping and fishing

  14. LEARNING STYLES • VISUAL • AUDITORY • TACTILE

  15. MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR • EXTROVERT / INTROVERT • SENSING / INTUITION • THINKING / FEELING • JUDGING / PERCEIVING

  16. THE WAY WE INTERACT Extroverts • Draw strength from others • Outgoing and love interaction • Enjoy being the center of attention Introverts • Draw strength from inner world • Quiet and reflective • Private and make own decisions

  17. THE WAY WE LEARN INFORMATION Sensing • Gather information through five senses • Like concrete facts • Have common sense Intuitive • Rely on gut feelings or intuition • Very innovative • Live in the future

  18. THE WAY WE MAKE DECISIONS Thinkers • Logical and analytical • Make decisions with head, not heart • May appear to be insensitive Feelers • Like harmony • Very warm people • Make decisions with heart, not head

  19. THE WAY WE LIVE Judgers • Orderly people • Good at setting goals and achieving them • Work before they play Perceivers • Spontaneous • Do not like timelines • Play before work is completed

  20. MYERS-BRIGGS 16 PERSONALITY TYPES ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ ISTP ISFP INFP INTP ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

  21. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TRAITS • Understand that everyone has a strength and aptitude for some skill or task • Improve your weaker learning styles by incorporating at least one aspect of those learning styles into your daily study plans • If your personality type clashes with your professor’s personality type, try to make adjustments that enable you to get through the class successfully • Strengthen your less dominant intelligences by involving yourself in activities that cause you to use them • Adjust your learning style to match your professor’s teaching style if possible • Understand that your primary intelligence can help you decide on your life’s vocation

  22. CHAPTER REFLECTION • Seek a variety of learning and social situations • Use your less dominant areas often to strengthen them • Read more about your personality type and learning style • Inventories do not measure your worth • Improve your less dominant areas • Surround yourself with diverse learners • Try different ways of learning and studying

  23. JUST FOR FUN !! Character Illustration by Christian O’Brien

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