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Exploring and Using Learning Styles
Preferred learning styles and individual talents are important for two reasons:
- When a youngster is having difficulty learning, a teacher can change to offering another way or style of learning. The youngster's preferred way can create a higher probability of success.
- Different talents or what are sometimes called "intelligences" (really ways of receiving, processing, or expressing information) can be strengthened in all of us.
Therefore, if you discover some things about the ways in which your youngster prefers to learn and express himself or herself, you can:
- Work with the youngster and teachers to encourage activities that capitalize on individual strengths or preferences when learning difficulty is encountered.
- Support relaxed activities that strengthen the areas in which a student feels "weak" or "turned-off" (I just don't like math, etc.) because now we know that all talents or "intelligences" can be strengthened. Students who know that and deliberately strengthen their non-preferred talents become the most intellectually powerful at solving problems and seizing opportunities in life.
Click on the links to these three resources that you can use:
- Learning Styles
- Multiple Intelligences
- Multiple Intelligences Learning Activities
The latter resource can help a teacher identify alternate learning activities. It can also be used by a parent to evaluate whether or not his or her youngster's school is using different types of activities that help develop different intelligences or talents.
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