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What Learning style does your child use ? |
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Anonymous Author (March 2007) |
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HOW DO YOU DO YOUR BEST LEARNING?
There are 4 learning styles and no child or adult favours one learning style alone… You may have strength in one but you will use parts of each of the other three styles at certain times of your life…. One 
just suits your child or you better than the other 3…These four styles refer primarily to the type of processing and memory system a child or person prefer to use when they are learning....
- Ask your self and your children what are your individual preferences for each of the four styles?......
- and How are you all different from each other?
It is amazing to see that there are alot of styles in a normal family...My mother is analytical, I am innovative/social..... My brother who is 25 is definately Inventive.......I looked at my two children ...My son takes after my brother (probably helped by the fact they are both Aspies)..My baby girl is hovering between the styles of my mother and I at present but she is only 2.5...She is a talker though so i am sure she will be one of her mothers heart...
Style 1 Innovative/social learner
Strong preference for learning in social situations with a lot of emotion present…You or your child are creative and imaginative and often looking for new ways of thinking and working with things,,,,
- Team orientated
- Likes to work with friends
- Needs nagged to finish things
- Highly imaginative
- Likes to organise people and event
- Likes to sort, classify and organise
- Great reader, listener, writer
- Highly empathetic
- Talks all the time
- Likes social assignments
Style 2 Analytical learner
Like to learn through print and aural mediums… like strong mental images and take lots of notes…strong readers… don’t see the need to apply learning
- Print orientated
- Likes to work alone
- Completes tasks to high standards
- Highly academic
- Very organised though can appear messy
- Excellent reader, listener and writer
- Likes to sort, classify, &organise
- Highly individual
- Likes following rules
- Great ideas people
Style 3 Methodical learners
Strong desire to learn specific applications… Like to follow procedures live is kept neat and orderly … like to see the actual product and apply their learning…
- Task oriented
- Likes to be leader
- Likes to get practical jobs done
- Highly productive
- Highly organised and flows manual
- Reads and listens for info not pleasure
- Likes to experiment and observe
- Low empathy
- Challenges rules
- Likes building things
Style 4 Inventive learners
Strong desire for novelty…creative and imaginative but apply learning without thought of consequence… use trial and error alot of the time and they also break stuff…
- Self orientated
- Likes to influence others
- Energetic at start, never complete things
- Highly inventive risk takers
- Very messy…no organisations
- Don’t like to read, listen, write
- Like trial and error
- Low empathy
- Challenge all rules
- Hands on
I now know why we are all so different in my family.......
what styles do you have there in each of your family members?
References...If you want to find out more check out
John Joseph "Whats your style. A tool for measuring the learning styles within your family" on CD rom for $25
