Renew Your Learning Style Knowledge & Expand Your Professional Growth (and Others').
Understanding the different ways people learn, helps you more readily:
· Connect to and collaborate with your clients, colleagues, employees, or students.
· Encourage professional growth
· Build quality customer care
· Create more profitable sales strategies and much more.
To Discover Your Learning Style, try this quiz.
Answer these 8 questions as accurately as you can by choosing one response only from
A, B, or C.
1. In your everyday conversations,
A. do you often use these words: "see, picture, or imagine"?
you enjoy speaking briefly, but dislike listening for very long.
B. do you use these words: " hear, tune or think"?
you enjoy listening, but you're only too ready to speak.
C. do you "talk with your hands"?
you use these words frequently: "feel, touch, or hold".
2. When you read for pleasure,
A. you love reading descriptive scenes? Do you enjoy imagining the actions?
B. do you enjoy hearing the characters' dialogues or conversations?
C. do you often choose action stories? Are you really not an avid reader?
3. When you want to concentrate on a task, do you become distracted
A. by movement or sloppiness?
B. by sounds and noises?
C. by activity going on around you?
4. When you need help with a computer task,
A. do you look for pictures and diagrams you can follow?
B. do you call your favorite tech person for help?
C. do you keep at it until you figure it out?
5. When you contact business associates,
A. do you prefer direct, face-to-face personal meetings?
B. do you prefer talking with them on the telephone?
C. do you prefer talking with them while you are doing an activity together, for example, playing golf?
6. When you wat to spell correctly,
A. do you see the word?
B. do you sound the word out?
C. do you write the word down to decide if it feels correct?
7. When you need to start something new at work?
A. do you want to look at demonstrations, videos, or charts to help get you going on it?
B. do you prefer verbal instructions, or discussing it with someone?
C. would you rather just get going on it and figure it out as you go along?
8. When you meet someone you haven't seen or heard from in a long time,
A. you may forget a person's name, but you remember faces or where you met?
B. you may forget faces, but you remember names or what you last talked about?
C. you remember the activity the two of you last did together?
Scoring.
Answers mostly "A's"?
You are a Visual Learner.
You learn best when information is presented visually either in a written language format or in a picture or design format. In a classroom environment, providing you with overhead projectors and blackboards along with a written outline to follow along with the instructor works well for you. Using visual aids such as film, video, maps, and charts benefits your learning experience. Information obtained form textbooks and class notes also works for you.
When you want to recall something, you can "see" it "in your mind's eye". (how neat!)
To further your abilty to recall information, you can use computer word processing. Copy your key info into your computer. Print it out and review. Spreadsheets and database software also help you organize material that you need to learn.
Studying alone in a quiet room helps prepare you for exams.
Your understanding of charts and graphs and your keen interpretation of visual images are wonderfully expressed in activities based on visual art and design.
Answers mostly "B's"?
You are an Auditory Learner.
You learn through listening. In a classroom environment, presenting information in a spoken language format works best for you. Interacting with others in a listening/speaking exchange is often your best learning experience. Discussion groups and collaborative projects highlight your learning experience.
Obtaining your information from CDs benefits your ability to remember what you have
learned
Recording lectures or your own notes on tapes and CDs benefits your studying for exams.
When you want to recall something, you can 'hear' the way a person delivered the information or the way you repeated it out loud.
Whenever you can, express your strengths in speaking and listening activities.
Answers mostly "C's"?
You are a Kinesthetic Learner.
You learn best when you are physically engaged in a 'hands on" activity. In the classroom environment, providing you with opportunities to make your learning something you can put your hands on works best for you. For example, create a model that demonstrates a concept. By spending time in the field (visiting job sites, museums, science shows), you gain first hand experience of your subject.
To reinforce and recall your learning through your sense of touch, try computer word processing software. Enter your information from your notes or observations into your computer.
Studying without distractions helps prepare for your exams.
For others' benefit, as well as your own, express your unique experiences by creating with your hands, or through acting, and dance.
Now you can use your Learning Style Knowledge to better understand yourself and your unique abilities.
To your love of learning!
Sincerely,
Susan Nielsen
Doable Learning-Learning with Ease!
Email: susane.nielsen@doablelearning.com to ask your questions I'm happy to answer.
Fax: 416-231-6900
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