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Your personal learning style involves several factors, especially:
- Which are your strongest intelligences?
- What senses do you prefer to use as you learn?
Your strongest Intelligences
Research by Dr Howard Gardner at Harvard University in the USA indicates that we have, not a single fixed IQ, but several different forms of intelligence. They can all be developed, but it makes sense to use your strongest type of intelligence as you learn.
Here is why knowing your preferred learning style is so important.
Traditionally, academic subjects have been taught in ways that largely emphasise two of these intelligences – Linguistic and Logical Mathematical – through lectures and logically formatted books and courses. So students who are naturally strong in these forms of intelligence will perform comparatively well in school.
And since Mathematical and Linguistic Intelligences are also the basis for IQ tests, IQ tests have become reasonably good predictors of school success – because that's the way children will be taught! It is a self-fulfilling prophecy – and indeed a self-perpetuating system as teachers will also have done well in the same school system.
But a moment's reflection will show that IQ tests are not necessarily good predictors of success in relationships, of economic success, of happiness or success in life generally.
It is only when we develop our complete range of intelligences that we are able to experience fully the richness of life's opportunities. And it's only when people learn the techniques that best match their strongest intelligences that they have an opportunity to achieve their full potential.
As Dr Howard Gardner puts it so well:
"Multiple intelligence education is multiple chance learning."
It is no longer how smart you are – but how are you smart!
What is my personal learning style?
Click your mouse on a segment of the roundel below to review the main types of intelligence.
