Assignment: Self Portrait on Learning Styles

Presented To:

Presented By: Brigitte Cusson

Presented On: November 3rd 2012

Presented In: Personal Development

Table Of Contents

Scores for each test .. 3

Visual Representation of Highest Score .. 4

What I have learnt about myself .5

Using the knowledge to become more successful ..6-8

Areas that would be of benefit to develop 9

Strategies to implement to maximize personal potential .10

Scores for Each Test

Multiple Intelligence Scores

Section Bodily Kinesthetic Visual Spatial Musical Interpersonal Verbal linguistic Logical mathematical Intrapersonal Naturalistic

Score 11 12 17 21 24 16 21 17

Personality Spectrum Organizer Adventurer Giver Thinker 29 17 21 15

True Colors Test Top Best Next Best Kind Of Least Like Me Gold Blue Green Orange

Visual Representation of highest Scores for Each Test

Personality Spectrum

Organizer

29

Adventurer

17

Giver

21

Thinker

15

Multiple Intelligences 20-24 Highly Developed Bodily Kinesthetic Verbal-Linguistic Visual -Spatial Logical - mathematical Musical Intrapersonal Interpersonal Naturalistic 14-19 Moderately Developed Below 14 Underdeveloped

True Colours

D Top Best Next Best Kind Of Least like me

What I have learnt about myself

I never realized that Musical-Rhythmic intelligences would score as moderately developed; I love structure. It seems

Ive scored the lowest in

the thinker category in the personality spectrum. This shocked me as I would have guessed the adventurer to be the lowest. Id like to focus on increasing this score.

this is an area I can

across each test that I

further explore. I thought completed that a theme of this area would fall off structure keeps popping the charts for me. up.

What I have learned about myself

Writing, detail and organization seems to be a dominate theme across all tests. Ive learned through doing these tests that these areas all reflect the current way I work, but I had

While scoring 21 in both intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligences, Ive learnt that I enjoy working on my own as equally as I love to work with people!

never noticed it. This is a great opportunity for me to hone these skills and put them further into practice as I move forward with my career and education.

How will I use this knowledge to become more successful?

Multiple intelligences

Verbal Lingustic Skills

keep highlighting of read text to less than 10%

Rewrite notes for extra comprehension

Use principals learnt to tutor other students

Create an outline from chapters read

Personality Spectrum

The Organizer

Make use of planners and schedules

Ask for extra clarification so tasks are clearly defined

Follow up with grades and ask for feedback

Choose structured and establish envrionments to learn in

True Colors

True Colours: Gold

Make use of school tools and agendas to be prepared for material to be delivered

create step by steps plans to achieve goals

Create relastic outcomes and expectations of myself

Make time to complete work before play

Areas that would be of benefit for further personal development

Thinker (Personality Sepectrum)

I find that it would be useful for me to gain more ability to problem solve. This could even be useful in my planning, which will help me become stronger in two categories! This will give me the opportunity to "think outside the box" giving way to more creative ways of learning.

Adventurer (personality Spectrum)

It would be of benefit for me to work on my flexibility. Although it's great to be organized and scheduled - with my lifestye I need to have room for the occasional "hiccups". If I continued to develop my skills further in this category, it would be a huge benefit for me to use these flexibility skills in the areas I already excel in.

Visual Spatial (multiple Intelligences)

I was surprised that this was one of my lowest marks in this test. Given that that the other tests indicate I benefit from oragnization, struture and planning I feel that adding in some traits from the visual spatial intelligence would help me create better notes and schedules by adding in charts, mind maps, color coded notes and graphic organizers!

Strategies to help Maximize my Potential

Working in Small Groups Request Feedback After Assignments As an organizer, it would help for me to request feedback from my teachers on assignments so that I can plan to adjust my work accordingly to recieve better marks in weaker areas. Because of my above mentioned learning styles I feel that a small group would work in my favor. I would be able to help organize the flow of work in the group, and I could help teach other people in the group the material I already am familiar with.

Strategies that will maximize potential learning abilities

Avoid Random presentations when possible As an organized verbal linguistic learner, taking part in a preentation that tackle topics in random order and jumps around in thoughts may be difficult for me to grab all the information that I should. When possible I should avoid this type of learning environment.

Make use of handouts Using handout I can create valuable chapter outlines and create review notes as reference points for myself. In addition I can highlight information making it easily acessible as the course progresses.

Conclusion Through this assignment Ive gained insight into myself in learning that I prefer environments that are structured, formal, organized. I enjoy engaging with material that is presented through lectures, reading, and writing. I work best in an environment at allows me to follow step-by step direction. Gripped with this knowledge I know that I will best excel in a class room that is engaged in lectures, group discussions, small groups and logical presentation teaching styles. The diagram above reflects class room environments that would be suit my learning styles.

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That being said, working in a class room where the teaching styles follow random presentations or logical presentations may be more of a challenge for me. Being that I am an organizer in the personality spectrum I need a classroom that is planned, predictable and organized, I could see myself becoming a little overwhelmed by a random presentations. Furthermore - in a classroom where logical presentations are being made, I may have the same difficulty. In this type of learning environment teacher make use of time and sequence, which could touch a few areas of my organization self, however I feel that it would really stress me to use the thinker in me, pulling on theoretical, analytical and scientific part of me, which is still underdeveloped at this point. Putting forward the above mentioned strategies, in the right learning environments will allow me to become a more successful student.

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