Career and Technical Education

Giving Students the Edge

CTE Introduction

Learning Styles

Career Development Activity#9

Understanding Learning Styles

Learning about the natural way we think and learn and how to apply it in education and career choices

Read Paragraph

What am I?

“I am a shimmery fluid polymer that is over 97% water. The water in me acts as a bridge linking the polyvinyl alcohol to the sodium tetra borate through cross-linked hydrogen bonding. This cross linked polymer will shear if twisted and is endothermic as it flows, getting colder in your hands.”

What am I?

Learning Style Defined

The different ways that people naturally think and learn

When students are aware of their learning style they:

• Are able to determine the best approach to learn something new.

• Can judge what kind of occupation would be suited for them based on their learning style.

• Do well in a career that uses their strongest learning styles.

Howard Gardner’sSeven Learning Styles

• Verbal/Linguistic

• Mathematical/Logical

• Visual/Spatial

• Bodily/Kinesthetic

• Musical/Rhythmic

• Interpersonal

• Intrapersonal

Verbal/Linguistic

Learning Styles Best Ways to Learn

Suggestions

Verbal/Linguistic Reading Take notes

Saying Read notes out loud

Hearing

Seeing Words Skim through reading firstStudy out loud with partner

Learning Styles Best Ways to Learn

Suggestions

Mathematical/Logical

Make categories Use lists to study

Classifying Arrange notes in patterns

Work with patterns Assign numbers to information

Figuring with numbers

Take notes in outline form. Use math formulas to solve (ratio, geometry, etc.)

Mathematical/Logical

Learning Styles Best Ways to Learn

Suggestions

Visual/Spatial Visualizing Study by making charts, graphs or pictures

Using colors and pictures

Use highlighters

Seeing things in your mind

Use webbing or mapping to take notes

Close your eyes and visualize mental images in yourmind

Visual/Spatial

Learning Styles Best Ways to Learn

Suggestions

Bodily/Kinesthetic Touching Choose projects that let you build, create, & shape with hands

Moving

Hands on learning Use objects to help you rememberpeople, places, &

Doing something physical while learning

Volunteer and participate inclass

Body/Kinesthetic

Learning Styles Best Ways to Learn

Suggestions

Musical/Rhythmic Rhythmically Create musical jingles to aide memorization

Musically

Making up melodies

Study for tests with quiet music in background.

Rhythmically read notes out loud

Musical/Rhythmic

Learning Styles Best Ways to Learn

Suggestions

Interpersonal Sharing Study with a focused partner

Comparing Ask frequent questions of others to gain information

Relating

Cooperating with others

Participate in class discussions

Interviewing Discuss ideaswith others

Interpersonal

Learning Styles Best Ways to Learn

Suggestions

Intrapersonal Working alone in own space

Organize your study place & time

Self-pacing instruction

Take time to think about the things you are learning

Reflecting Research ideas in department

Intrapersonal

Group Work

Students:• Go to the poster on the wall that is most like

you.• Discuss one study technique that might

work for you.• Discuss Careers that interest you.

Homework

• Choose one class and use your best Learning Style to complete an assignment.

• Describe what you did and how it worked for you.