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Learning Styles
General Learning Styles Links
MATTERS OF STYLE - (15+ min.)
By Richard M. Felder. A useful overview comparing 4 major learning styles: Myers-Briggs, Kolb's Learning Style Model, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, and Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model. He compares both theory and application of all 4 types.
How To Learn - (10 min.)
This site has many helpful resources including products for Accelerated Learning and a Personal Learning Style Inventory you can take via an online form with 36 questions.
The Center for New Discoveries in Learning - (5 min)
This is the non-profit organization from How To Learn and includes a Food Allergy Questionnaire.
The Learning Styles Report - (3-5 min.)
From a company that makes videos for home educators. This site contains basic descriptions of learning styles.
Evaluating Your Learning Style - (10 min. for assessment)
A nicely done online assessment tool (35 questions) for learning styles.
Thinking About Thinking - (10 min.)
A nicely done slide presentation (28 slides). Graphics intensive. If you have a slower computer, I would recommend the text-only version.
Learning Style Inventory - (15 min.+)
This site has information and evaluation tools for both David Kolb's theories and multiple intelligence theories. Detailed.
Theories Based on David Kolb's Research (Go to Top)
Teaching and Learning Style Preferences: Transitions Through Technology (15+ min.)
A detailed article by Virginia F. Hartman. She explains the Kolb learning cycle of four required processes for learning to occur: concrete experience (observation), reflective observation (brainstorming); abstract conceptualization (speaking/writing); and active experimentation (homework).
The 4MAT System (Go to Top)
(Bernice McCarthy)
Learning Styles and the 4MAT System: A Cycle of Learning
This is a wonderful explanation of the 4MAT System of determining learning styles by Bernice McCarthy. It is also hyperlinked to a wonderful Living Laboratory
Curriculum on Volcanoes.
Educational Psychology Interactive: The 4MAT System
A very nicely done overview of Bernice McCarthy's theory.
Excel, Inc.
This is Bernice McCarthy's official page for the 4MAT system.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners (Go to Top)
The
Tactile/Kinesthetic learner is discussed in detail.
Personality Type Indicators (Go to Top)
(Such as Myers-Briggs)
Student Learning and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
This site gives details on how personality types, as determined by the common Myers-Briggs test, relate to learning and teaching.
The Kiersey Temperament Sorter
This is an online temperament test, which is similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Try the test - it's fun!
Learning to Learn with Style
Although this is primarily a site advertising a video course, there is some useful information here dealing with how the Myers-Briggs Personality Types relate to learning styles.
Spiritual Gifts (Go to Top)
Spiritual Gift Discovery Tool
An online Spiritual Gifts test. Allow yourself some time for this as there are 110 questions to answer.
Identifying and Deploying Your Spiritual Gifts
A very nice Bible Study by Dr. Lindsey Garmon on the subject.
Multiple Intelligence Theories (Go to Top)
(Howard Gardner, Thomas Armstrong, etc.)
ALPS: Active Learning
Practices for Schools
Project Zero site explaining ideas for implementing classroom practices.
American Memory
Library of Congress's collection of over fifty extensive multimedia collections available to students for study and use.
ATT Virtual Classroom
Teacher's online workshop promoting classroom alliances.
Family Education.com
Parents can test student's intelligence with concise and informative results.
Harvard Project Zero
Information about Project Zero, led by Howard Gardner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This educational research group seeks to develop learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, plus scientific disciplines for both the individual and at an institutional level.
Learning Disability: A Rose by Another Name (15+ min.)
Comprehensive and thought provoking article based on Thomas Armstrong's works.
M.I. Links
Jane Carlson-Pickering's M.I. lists links, plus books, Web sites and articles.
M.I. Smart! Program
This site explains all of the intelligences (nine) and is linked to the Sands of the World site.
Multiple Intelligences
Review of the multiple intelligences theory with an emphasis on educational applications.
The National Educational Technology
Standards
Teachers and professionals form the writing team.
Sands of the World
An example of M.I. applied in the classroom using learning task about sand from all over the world. The M.I. Smart Web site, which illustrates all seven intelligences, links to this page.
The Seven Human Intelligences
Mary & Michael Leppert, authors of "Homeschooling Almanac 2000-2001," summarize The Seven Human Intelligences by Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard University. Simple to read. Good overview.
Seven Styles of Learning, by Elaine Winters
This short article explains Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences in everyday, rather than technical, terms.
ThinkQuest
Yearly competition for student teams. Coached by teachers.
Competition offers exciting awards and is divided
into two groups: Grades 4-7 and 8-12.
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