Transcript Using Your Dominant Intelligence, Learning

GUST 1270
College and Career Planning
CHAPTER SIX
LEARN:
Using Your Dominant Intelligence, Learning Style, and
Personality Type to Become an Active Learner
UNIT 6 OBJECTIVES
This unit can help you:
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Identify and use your learning style
Identify and use your primary intelligence
Identify and use your personality type
Differentiate between learning styles and
multiple intelligences
Improve active learning and studying by using
your personality
IS THERE A BEST WAY TO
LEARN?
No! Understanding your learning
style, intelligence strengths, and
personality type will help you to use
your dominant traits to your benefit.
EIGHT MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES
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Visual / Spatial
Verbal / Linguistic
Music / Rhythm
Logic / Math
Body / Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intra-personal
Naturalistic
Picture Smart
Word Smart
Music Smart
Number Smart
Body Smart
People Smart
Self-Smart
Environment Smart
VISUAL / SPATIAL
PICTURE SMART
Thinks in pictures; knows where things
are in the house; loves to create images;
best learns information with graphs,
charts, pictures and maps.
VERBAL / LINGUISTIC
WORD SMART
Communicates well through language; likes to
write; good at spelling; great at telling stories;
loves
to read books
MUSIC / RHYTHM
MUSIC SMART
Loves to sing, hum and whistle;
has the ability to comprehend sound;
responds to music immediately;
performs music
LOGIC / MATH
NUMBER SMART
Can easily conceptualize; can
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reason, uses logic; good problem solving skills;
enjoys math and science
BODY / KINESTHETIC
BODY SMART
Learns through body sensation; moves around
a lot; enjoys work involving the hands; graced
with some athletic ability
INTERPERSONAL
PEOPLE SMART
Loves to communicate with other people; great
leadership skills; has lots of friends; involved in
extra-curricular activities
INTRA-PERSONAL
SELF-SMART
Has a deep awareness of his or her own feelings; very
reflective; requires time to be alone; does not get
involved with group activities on a regular basis.
NATURALISTIC
ENVIRONMENT SMART
Has interest in the environment and in nature; can
easily recognize plants, animals, rocks and cloud
formations; may like hiking, camping and fishing
LEARNING STYLES
VISUAL
AUDITORY
TACTILE
Learning Styles
 Visual (Eye Smart). Thinks in pictures. Enjoys visual
instructions, demonstrations, and descriptions; would rather
read a text than listen to a lecture; avid note taker; needs visual
references; enjoys charts, graphs, and pictures.
 Auditory (Ear Smart). Prefers verbal instructions; would rather
listen than read; often tapes lectures and listen to them in the
car or at home; recites information out loud; enjoys talking,
discussing issues, and verbal stimuli; talk out problems.
 Tactile (Action Smart). Prefers hands-on approaches to
learning; likes to take notes and uses a great deal of scratch
paper; learns best by doing something, by touching it, or
manipulating it; learns best while moving in action; often does
not concentrate well when sitting and reading.
MYERS-BRIGGS
TYPE INDICATOR
EXTROVERT / INTROVERT
SENSING / INTUITION
THINKING / FEELING
JUDGING / PERCEIVING
THE WAY WE INTERACT
Extroverts
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Draw strength from others
Outgoing and love interaction
Enjoy being the center of attention
Introverts
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Draw strength from inner world
Quiet and reflective
Private and make own decisions
THE WAY WE LEARN
INFORMATION
Sensing
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Gather information through five senses
Like concrete facts
Have common sense
Intuitive
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Rely on gut feelings or intuition
Very innovative
Live in the future
THE WAY WE MAKE DECISIONS
Thinkers
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Logical and analytical
Make decisions with head, not heart
May appear to be insensitive
Feelers
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Like harmony
Very warm people
Make decisions with heart, not head
THE WAY WE LIVE
Judgers
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Orderly people
Good at setting goals and achieving them
Work before they play
Perceivers
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Spontaneous
Do not like timelines
Play before work is completed
MYERS-BRIGGS
16 PERSONALITY TYPES
ISTJ
ISFJ
INFJ INTJ
ISTP
ISFP INFP INTP
ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP
ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ
ENTJ
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR
TRAITS
 Understand that everyone has a strength and aptitude for some
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skill or task
Improve your weaker learning styles by incorporating at least one
aspect of those learning styles into your daily study plans
If your personality type clashes with your professor’s personality
type, try to make adjustments that enable you to get through the
class successfully
Strengthen your less dominant intelligences by involving yourself
in activities that cause you to use them
Adjust your learning style to match your professor’s teaching
style if possible
Understand that your primary intelligence can help you decide on
your life’s vocation
UNIT REFLECTION
 Seek a variety of learning and social situations
 Use your less dominant areas often to strengthen
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them
Read more about your personality type and learning
style
Inventories do not measure your worth
Improve your less dominant areas
Surround yourself with diverse learners
Try different ways of learning and studying
JUST FOR FUN !!
Character Illustration by Christian O’Brien