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**Rate each of the following on the basis of 1 to 4. ** **1=least like you; 2=a little like you 3=quite a bit like you; 4=most like you **
 * Learning Styles Profile **

**Learning Style #1 ** Do you: Like to write? 2 Like to learn new words? 2 Like to tell stories? 2 Enjoy reading? 2 Give good directions to others so that they understand the first time? 3 Have a good memory for names, dates, facts? 3 Enjoy making or hearing puns? 1 Enjoy metaphors? 3 **Total score 18 **



**Learning Style #2 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Do you: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Like to work with computers and calculators? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Enjoy math class? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Easily add numbers in your head? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Enjoy doing science experiments? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ask a lot of questions about how things work? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Enjoy chess, checkers, or other strategy games? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Enjoy logic puzzles or brainteasers? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Like to go by steps, from A to B to C, rather than jumping from A to D? 4 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Total score 31 ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Learning Style #3 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Do you: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Read maps, charts, or diagrams more easily than text? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Build interesting three dimensional constructions (like LEGO buildings or others)? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Prefer to draw pictures rather than tell stories? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Find your way to a new place easily? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Like to take things apart and then try to figure out how to put them back together? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Doodle a lot on notebooks? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Visualize the back side of an object from looking at the front?1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Estimate distances between objects easily? 1 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Total score 20 **

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**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Learning Style #4 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Do you: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Find activities like riding a bike, skating, or walking on a balance beam easy? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Run, swim, and exercise without getting tired? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Learn to play new sports easily and quickly? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Learn a new dance step easily and quickly? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Use a lot of hand gestures and body movements when talking to friends? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Like touching things you’ve just seen? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Cleverly mimic other people’s gestures or mannerisms? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Move, tap, or fidget while seated for a long time in one spot?3 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Total score 24 ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Learning Style #5 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Do you: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Enjoy playing a musical instrument? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Listen to music a lot? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Hum or sing a lot? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Tell people when music sounds off-key? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Have a good singing voice? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Remember the melodies of songs? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sing harmony? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Compose music in your head or on paper? 1 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Total score 19 ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Learning Style #6 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Do you: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Like to work and/or play with others? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Understand how people are feeling by looking at their faces? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Give advice to friends who have problems? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Have a good sense of empathy or concern for others? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Seem to be street-smart? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Seem to be a natural leader on teams? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Get energy from being with people rather than being alone? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Feel that several minds working on something are better than one? 4 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Total score 27 **

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**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Learning Style #7 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Do you: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Often need a quiet place to work or just be alone? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Like to make collections of things that have special meaning for you? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Remember your dreams? 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Display a sense of independence or strong will? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Have a realistic sense of your own strengths and weaknesses? 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Accurately express how you are feeling? 4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Have an interest or a hobby that you don’t talk much about? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Get energy from being alone rather than being with people? 1 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Total score 20 ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Learning Style #8 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Do you: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Enjoy collecting bugs, flowers, or rocks? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Like to closely examine what you find in nature? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Keep detailed records of your observations of nature? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Like to watch natural phenomena like the moon/tides and hear explanations about them? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Become fascinated with one thing from nature and want to learn about it thoroughly? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Want to find out the name of a bird or a bug you’ve seen? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Like to classify things? 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Want to become a geologist, biologist, or some other type of scientist? 2 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Total score 9 ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Done taking the survey? Now read the explanation below **  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Multiple Intelligences ( ****back to top****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">) ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Intelligence is often considered to be how well you score on tests or what your grades are in school. In the 1900s, French psychologist Alfred Binet tried to come up with some kind of measure that would predict the success of failure of children in the primary grades of school. The result was the forerunner of the standards IQ test we use today. This gave us a dimension of mental ability by which we could compare everyone.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In the 1980s, Harvard University psychologist, Howard Gardner conceived a pluralistic view of the mind, and recognized the many discrete facets of cognition. Gardner defines intelligence as the ability to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings. He acknowledges that people have different cognitive strengths as well as different cognitive styles. Gardner bases his view in part on findings from sciences that were nonexistent in Binet’s time. One involves studying what people are capable of who have sustained localized brain damage to certain cognitive centers. Out of this came Gardner’s “theory of multiple intelligences.” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Instead of looking for a correlation between tests, he argues, we should look to how people develop skills that are pertinent in their culture. When a child learns to play the piano, s/he is learning several skills. Will the training s/he received learning the piano skills enhance mathematics skills, or vice versa? The standard IQ test measures how intelligent a person is in traditional areas involving math and language. All other areas that a person may excel at or have natural ability in are not taken into consideration. Each individual is unique. We all have different physical features—we are not all blue-eyed, brown-haired, six-foot tall men; we each have different personalities—some are jokesters and comedians while others are quiet, reserved, and serious; likewise, we all have our own set of talents, gifts, and abilities. Not everyone will excel in math and language. Why should we compare how smart children are or how successful they will be based on a test that measures only two aspects of who they are?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Gardner has identified eight intelligences. These areas in a culture are valued as abilities to solve a problem or create a particular product. The intelligences are like talents and gifts in that there are many combinations possible; indeed, all people have all of these qualities to some degree. Intelligences can also be strengthened. How readily the improvement occurs depends upon the biology of the person’s brain and the teacher/cultural context.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 1: Linguistic – the ability to use language to describe events, to build trust and rapport, to develop logical arguments and use rhetoric, or to be expressive and metaphoric.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 2: Logical/mathematical – the ability to use numbers to compute and describe, to use mathematical concepts to make conjectures, to apply mathematics in personal daily life, to apply mathematics to data and construct arguments, to be sensitive to the patterns, symmetry, logic, and aesthetics of mathematics, and to solve problems in design and modeling.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 3: Spatial – the ability to perceive and represent the visual-spatial world accurately, to arrange color, line, shape, form, and space to meet the needs of others, to interpret and graphically represent visual or spatial ideas, to transform visual or spatial ideas into imaginative and expressive creations.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 4: Bodily-Kinesthetic – the ability to use the body and tools to take effective action, to construct or repair, to build rapport, to console, to persuade, or to support others; to plan strategically or to critique the actions of the body, to appreciate the aesthetics of the body and to use those values to create new forms of expression.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 5: Musical – the ability to understand and develop musical technique, to respond emotionally to music and to use music to meet the needs of others, to interpret musical forms and ideas, and to create imaginative and expressive performances and compositions.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 6: Interpersonal – the ability to organize people and to communicate clearly what needs to be done, to use empathy to help others and solve problems, to discriminate and interpret among different kinds of interpersonal clues, and to influence and inspire others to work toward a common goal.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 7: Intrapersonal – the ability to assess one’s own strengths, weaknesses, talents, and interests and to use them to set goals, to understand oneself and to be of service to others, to form and develop concepts and theories based on examination of oneself, and to reflect on one’s inner moods, intuitions, and temperament in order to use them to create or express a personal view.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Style 8: Naturalist – the ability to recognize and classify plants, minerals, and animals, including rocks, grass, and all variety of flora and fauna, and to recognize patterns and cultural artifacts.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Adapted from: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Barnard, Spencer. Seven intelligences checklist. <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Teaching to the Multiple Intelligences. <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">For more info on this subject: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Gardner, H. (1993) //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Multiple intelligences: The theory into practice //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">. New York: Basic Books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Gardner, H. (2004) //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Changing minds: The art and science of changing our own and other // //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">people’s minds //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Done reading the explanation? Now make a new page, post a reaction, and link to your personal page ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">My reaction to this is that i score higher Style 2: Logical/mathematical – the ability to use numbers to compute and describe, to use mathematical concepts to make conjectures, to apply mathematics in personal daily life, to apply mathematics to data and construct arguments, to be sensitive to the patterns, symmetry, logic, and aesthetics of mathematics, and to solve problems in design and modeling.

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