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Multiple Intelligences (MI) and Learning Styles.

What type of Learner are You?

How do your kids learn best?

Can you teach them well unless you know?

Update March 2009 – Schools Renewal and Understanding teen Brains

According to Dr Ellen Weber these are some brain facts that could build great schools, if we place students first and pull together:

Sir Ken Robinson asks Do Schools Kill Creativity? Is Creativity as important as literacy?

Why don’t we get the best out of people? Ken argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. Robinson’s TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? “Everyone should watch this.”

Now try this assortment of multiple Intelligence tests. See if you can recognise some of those “other” learners that Ted spoke about sitting in your classrooms.

Thanks to Trinity College P.L. Duffy Resource Centre for many of the following links.

• Multiple Intelligence Inventory
• LD Pride Net - Learning Disabilities
• Naturalistic Intelligence
• Gardner’s MI’s SMARTs resources, tests and handouts
• Dreamtime Personalities awakening people to their true potential
• Paragon learning style Inventory survey provides a reliable indication of learning style and cognitive preference.
• What is your Myers Briggs pesonality type?
• Left Brain, Right Brain? What are you?
• The Four Quadrant Model of the Brain 

Thanks to Glenn for his post at History Tech for the following links.

Get your learners to try them; fun, easy and informative.

Birmingham Grid For Learning measures a student’s Multiple Intelligence and provides a visual graph that shows their results.

Literacy Works and Practices, Strategies to Engage the Differences This form can help you determine which intelligences are strongest for you. If you’re a teacher you can also use it to find out which intelligences your learner uses most often.

What’s your learning style? There is a series of 16 questions that are related to the three main learning styles. Read the question and select the answer that closest fits your answer. Don’t think about the questions too much. Go with your first choice.

The VARK Questionaire. How do I learn Best? Choose the answer which best explains your preference and circle the letter(s) next to it. Please circle more than one if a single answer does not match your perception. Leave blank any question that does not apply.

 Here is an alternate view that Learning Styles don’t actually exist, so why waste time trying to identify them? I’d never considered this before, thats why I considered this presentation carefully.

Thanks to Bill Genereux at TechIntersect for alerting me to these tests on MyPersonality.info

Do you know yourself, let alone the kids in your classroom?

Results of online multiple intelligence and personality quiz.

I think the summary provided is also highly accurate.

“Their job must be fun, although not racous, and it must be meaningful to them. They need a strong purpose in their work. They want to be recognized and valued, without undue attention given to them. They may become embarrassed when make the center of attention. As a result, they may undersell their strengths in order to avoid being singled out and made to feel conspicuous. They would rather have their worth be noticed gradually over time.”

Go on, you know you want to do it, get over here and have a go.

When, or if, we ever have a Chris Betcha  “oh you are real moment” see what you think.

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