I just took some surveys...and the irony of these surveys was that I had been learning about their topics-multiple intelligences and learning styles-for a while yet I never concretely decided what mine was. This is why I love being assigned to little duties like these!
Well, let's begin with my first survey: Multiple Intelligences. 40 questions later I come to find out that I have a bent towards musical and linguistic. I'm tune smart and word smart. And for that personality review, I have a bit more of the interpersonal, yet it's pretty balanced with intrapersonal. I'd hope it's that nice balance where I can handle being alone yet enjoy being others. Anyways, do these results ring true in everyday life? I would say a nice yes. I have been regarded as a "walking dictionary" and I'm always thinking of ideas instead of facts. Unless, the idea that I am thinking about is a reality, which would be a fact...oh philosophy. And I love music too! I expand my genre and playlists almost daily and I do a lot of composing as well. However, I find that sometimes when I study, music doesn't help me. I enjoy the music too much and get distracted from my work! But songs and jingles are also helpful to memorize things and what not.
Now, how could my preferences affect my students? Very easily, I'm afraid. It has already been my thought to have music playing as students enter and exit. But especially for the linguistic part of things, this could pose a problem. I am perfectly fine with using words to create pictures. Truthfully, making painstakingly neat diagrams doesn't sound delicious to me. Still, I will need to adjust this in order that students (almost all a majority of visual learners) will be able to learn better. To counteract, I will have to use technology, video, and visual objects to create another component to learning.
Time for the other survey: Learning style. Actually, I didn't really understand the scale, but I can speculate a little bit...or after reading the explanation, everything makes sense now! In a quick list, I am an active, intuitive, verbal sequential learner. However, I am well-balanced in the areas of active-reflective learning and sequential-global. It all seems to make sense (duh, it's a professional study). For the intuitive and verbal bit, I tend to internalize ideas before I act them out, and I do a lot of thinking in words...Ask my friends! I'm not concise at all! To answer the previous questions, my best response is that I am content of my balance for sequential and global learning. This area defines those who learn in great big jumps or those who live in steps. I should say I keep these pretty well balanced: inductive vs. deductive, general vs. specific, parts vs. whole.
It seems that my philosophy of teaching is pretty comprehensive in including students to learn proficiently. However, my method will always need tweaking. I can't just give kids a theory no matter how much I love thinking about one, I need to be able to offer them a practice. In the end, this will keep my classroom relevant.
Well, let's begin with my first survey: Multiple Intelligences. 40 questions later I come to find out that I have a bent towards musical and linguistic. I'm tune smart and word smart. And for that personality review, I have a bit more of the interpersonal, yet it's pretty balanced with intrapersonal. I'd hope it's that nice balance where I can handle being alone yet enjoy being others. Anyways, do these results ring true in everyday life? I would say a nice yes. I have been regarded as a "walking dictionary" and I'm always thinking of ideas instead of facts. Unless, the idea that I am thinking about is a reality, which would be a fact...oh philosophy. And I love music too! I expand my genre and playlists almost daily and I do a lot of composing as well. However, I find that sometimes when I study, music doesn't help me. I enjoy the music too much and get distracted from my work! But songs and jingles are also helpful to memorize things and what not.
Now, how could my preferences affect my students? Very easily, I'm afraid. It has already been my thought to have music playing as students enter and exit. But especially for the linguistic part of things, this could pose a problem. I am perfectly fine with using words to create pictures. Truthfully, making painstakingly neat diagrams doesn't sound delicious to me. Still, I will need to adjust this in order that students (almost all a majority of visual learners) will be able to learn better. To counteract, I will have to use technology, video, and visual objects to create another component to learning.
Time for the other survey: Learning style. Actually, I didn't really understand the scale, but I can speculate a little bit...or after reading the explanation, everything makes sense now! In a quick list, I am an active, intuitive, verbal sequential learner. However, I am well-balanced in the areas of active-reflective learning and sequential-global. It all seems to make sense (duh, it's a professional study). For the intuitive and verbal bit, I tend to internalize ideas before I act them out, and I do a lot of thinking in words...Ask my friends! I'm not concise at all! To answer the previous questions, my best response is that I am content of my balance for sequential and global learning. This area defines those who learn in great big jumps or those who live in steps. I should say I keep these pretty well balanced: inductive vs. deductive, general vs. specific, parts vs. whole.
It seems that my philosophy of teaching is pretty comprehensive in including students to learn proficiently. However, my method will always need tweaking. I can't just give kids a theory no matter how much I love thinking about one, I need to be able to offer them a practice. In the end, this will keep my classroom relevant.
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