Learning Styles 
     Identifying and teaching to a student's preferred learning style may be beneficial in the short term
 but devastating in the long term. By doing so we enhance the student's strengths but ignore
 his weaknesses. This leaves a handicap the student may carry the rest of his life! It will
 effect his options for study and vocation.

      This website provides links to resources that will help educate you in learning styles
so that deficient underlying learning skills can be improved quickly,
making learning easier and faster no matter how the material is presented.
Please read on. This site is here to help you.


            These pages will discuss students who have difficulty learning in one of the following ways:
  •       paying attention
  •       learning to read or spell (struggles to sound out words)
  •       slow leanring math facts
  •       complete assignments
  •       memory
  •       comprehending or understanding
  •       working too hard for what is achieved
    •            By following these steps you will have gain some very important information that could dramatically improve you child’s ability to do well in school.
                    1.  Understand the causes of learning difficulties
                    2.  Know the skills necessary for fast and efficient learning
                    3.  Find out what skills are weak
                    4.  Learn what needs to happen to improve learning skills
                    5.  Take specific steps that can help your child gain the skills needed to become a successful student.

            Here are some websites that will not only give you background on learning styles but will also help you know yourself as well as your students better.  These sitres will also help you apply your knowledge about learning styles in the classroom.

    http://www.geocities.com/~educationplace/ls.html
    This website is an excellent source of information concerning learning styles; including definitions of the different styles, examples, and how to implement them into the classroom - including small group techniques.

    http://www.newhorizons.org/art_mireserch.html
    This article relates the research  from the author’s classroom in the previous article “Multiplying Intelligence in the Classroom”.  The positive benefits for both the students and teacher are listed.

    http://www.metamath.com//lsweb/fourls.htm
    This website lists the 4 learning styles: Visual/Verbal, Visual/Nonverbal, Tactile/Kinesthetic, and Auditory/Verbal.  Each style is briefly defined and learning strategies are given.  Suggestions are given on how to use learning strategies for a specific learning style to help students succeed in class.

    http://www.newhorizons.org/crfut_campbellb.html
    The author of this article illustrates how he, as a classroom teacher, incorporates the seven intelligences in his classroom.

    http://www.newhorizons.org/restr_ellison.htm
    The author illustrates how learning styles can be addressed and required standards taught at the same time.

    http://www.metronet.com/~bhorizon/teach.htm
    This website gives ideas on how to make task cards for students considering the multiple intelligences.

    http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/1,1156,3-2106,00.html
    This website has information and links to information on learning styles and multiple intelligences.  It also has quizzes and advice for parents.

    http://books.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/
    This website is an online book that attempts to show us how different people learn and what some effective teachers do.

    http://www.gsu.edu/~dschjb/wwwmbti.html
    This website discusses the Myers Briggs test and gives several teaching approaches that will appeal to different learning styles.

    http://gracehome.org/traits.html
    This website is a great summary of the learning styles and their associated traits.  It points out the things to look for in auditory learners, visual learners, and kinesthetic learners.

    http://www.howtolearn.com/
    This site is fantastic.  It gives you a quick test, and at the end it gives immediate feedback!  This is a great way to better learn yourself as a learner as well as assess others.

    http://7-12educators.about.com/cs/learningstyles1/index.htm
    This is a great site which has many resourceful links pertaining primarily to various learning styles, not multiple intelligences. These links include: How Learning Style Affects Your Use of Mnemonics; How to Accommodate Different Learning Styles; Right Brain vs. Left Brain Thinking; Whole Brain Teaching; and Identify Style Based on Study Habits.

    http://childparenting/about.com/library/bllearn.htm
    This site is a great resource for teachers and parents. It has links to sites that help us teach children of varying multiple intelligences and has temperament styles.

    http://childparenting.about.com/library/weekly/aa091397.htm
    This site is centered on nurturing a child’s visual-spatial intelligence. Activity ideas are given, as well as links to check out educational software that would appeal to the visual-spatial child.

    http://childparenting.about.com/library/blblckhstb.htm
    This site has black history links for families and children organized by Gardners’s seven multiple intelligences.

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    This  page was developed for new and experienced teachers
    by Gardner Barrier, Jennifer Marsh, Elizabeth Mautz, and Allison Pennell
    This page was last updated 12/24/01.