How+we+learn

After taking the quiz and looking at everyone's posted results, it is clear that everyone has different ways of learning. One way to address this as a teacher is to use differentiated learning. This method gives students "multiple options for taking in information and making sense of ideas" (http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstruc.html). It is extremely important as a teacher to vary teaching methods and not get stuck in a rut, or only teach the way you like to learn. According to my test results, I am very Sequential (9) and Visual (7), and more balanced in the Active (3) and Intuitive (1) categories. I will have to make more of an effort to give reflective learners more time, teach facts to the sensing learners, give instructions and assessments in a verbal format for the verbal learners, and for the global learners I will need to teach the big picture before I can expect them to understand the smaller parts. Basically I need to be in tune to the different ways that my students learn and use **a lot** of variety in the ways I teach and assess my students. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences rings very true with me. I really believe that every one of my students will be highly intelligent, those that appear less so just haven't had the opportunity to demonstrate their individual kind of intelligence.  "Our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence [...] we should also place equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences" (http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm). 