FY026-Preparing for

Success: Knowledge
and Creativity
London School of Science and Technology
Module: (FY026) Preparing for Success Knowledge and Creativity

Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligence

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Knowing how you learn can make all the difference.

 Learning Objectives

To demonstrate different types of learning style.

To examine different models of learning styles.

To discuss different teaching strategies and methods.

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Activity:

▪ In a group of two, what is a learning style? (3

minutes)

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 What is a learning style?
Learners have preferences for learning:

Some learner prefer structure while others like flexibility.

Some prefer independence while others like a social or group

learning environment.

Some learners prefer auditory (listening) inputs, while others

prefer visual (seeing) and some like kinesthetic (actions) inputs.

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 What is a learning style?
An essential point is: adult learners are flexible and adapt to a
variety of presentation styles.

Although we have a preference, we will learn in almost

every environment.

However, teaching and learning is more pleasant when

our individual preferences are targeted in the methods
chosen to present material.

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 What is your learning style?

What type of learner are

you?
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=uQkTho2or8U

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Learning Styles—an Overview

Visual Learner – 40% of population.

Auditory Learner – 30% of population.
Kinesthetic Learner – 30% of population.

Note: research suggests, 100% of the population

uses a combination of all 3 styles listed. Most
often one type is dominant.

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Why it is important to understand your
learning style?

• Better major selection.

• Better strategy in choosing courses that are

aligned with how you learn.

• Strategize ways to do better in your courses.

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Visual Learners

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 Visual Learners
• Remember what was read or seen in a presentation.
• Don't remember what they hear over a long period of time.
• Think in images, use “extracts” to describe.
• Have bright imaginations.
• Associate color with information.
• Have the ability to remember faces, but not names.
• Prefer written reports not verbal ones.

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Auditory Learners

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Auditory Learners
•Have the ability to remember what they hear in a lecture
or presentation. Or even during a conversation.
•They are able to talk while they write.
•Are sophisticated speakers.
•Able to remember by listening, and therefore get the
most out of lectures.
•Allocate little meaning to concepts or theories until
those information is presented in an clear format.

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Kinesthetic Learners

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Kinesthetic Learners
Prefer to move all the time…they want to
be occupied!

They are well organized.

They are “achievers”, not big

“communicators”.

Prefer to take things apart, combine them

together to learn how things work.

Need tangible experiences to act as

learning advisors.
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Social and independent learning styles

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 Social learner
Understand and process information best when multi-tasking in
busy environments with other people.

They enjoy study sessions, such as group projects and supportive

learning.

Prefer group work in class, classroom discussions, study groups.

Tend to work in noisy environment such as music or other

background noise.

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Independent learner

• Understand and process information better when

working independently or isolated.

• Prefer to work in quiet, undisturbed, regular study

environments.

• Like to use reading assignments, written exams,

papers and reports.

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Learning Styles Questionnaire
(Honey and mumford 1986)

You have 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire pages 1-4

question 80 is at the top of page 4! If you finish, check your
answers.

1) Put a tick by the points you agree with, and a cross by those
that you disagree with. (Every question must have a tick or
cross).

2) When you finish you put 1 point by each ticked item. No

points for any crossed items (do not worry this is not bad!)

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Learning Styles Questionnaire
(Honey and mumford 1986 )

Scoring and Interpreting the learning styles

Questionnaire

1) Now you circle those number that you gave yourself

a point for, and total them at the bottom.

2) You should now have a score for being an: Activist,

Reflector, Theorist, Pragmatist.

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 Your learning style is the one for which you have the highest mark, but you
can also identify how strong you are in the other area’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cf-1zx58CU

Video

https://www.y
outube.com/w
atch?v=5Cf-1
zx58CU

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 Multiple Intelligences
A theory by Howard Gardener

How many of you think you are smart?

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 ARE YOU SMART?

The answer is that ALL of you are SMART.

WHY do you think I say this?…. Discuss in a

group!

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 ARE YOU SMART?

ALL of you are SMART!

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ARE YOU SMART!

According to theories of intelligence, we are

ALL smart!

Hard work = smart

That said, we all have ‘Multiple Intelligences’,

according to Howard Gardener

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Gardner’s approach

Gardner began by trying to find out:

What are the mental abilities that support

the wide range of adult roles found over time
and across cultures?

What abilities enable people to become

teachers, carpenters, musicians, farmers?
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 Howard Gardner’s Definitions of Multiple
Intelligences

Howard Gardner proposed eight different intelligences to account for a

broader range of human potential in children and adults (this is also
referred to as ‘multiple intelligences’)

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 Activity in class
Take a sheet of paper out and write these activities down:
Sing at least 5 seconds from a song
Complete this numerical sequence 1, 2, 4, 8, ___, ___ and explain
the logic behind it
Draw a picture of a car or pair of shoes
Do the mono or any other dance
Share a dream you’ve had in the past week
Someone who can honestly say they are comfortable talking to
everyone in this activity
Read the lyrics to any poem, rap, or song, or quote

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 In conclusion

▪ There is a belief that you can be good at all of them,

but inevitably we favor certain intelligences.
▪ It is important to know how you are intelligent so
you can do your best to adjust and adapt to what
you have to learn.
▪ If you are musically smart, memorize facts in songs.
If you dance well, create a dance about certain
stories, or act out a short skit, etc

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Recap of Todays Lecture

• Demonstrate different types of learning style.

• To examine different models of learning styles.

• To discuss different teaching strategies and methods.

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Thank You!!