The Giftedness in all Children Understanding Learning Styles Allows Parents, Educators, and Students to Excel in Education

Spring and summer fashions are in full bloom right now, as you prepare to outfit your child for the season, it is an excellent time to outfit your child for excellence in education by finding your child's personal "learning style".

People learn in at least eight different ways, according to the Multiple Intelligences Theory. They learn visually, verbally, physically, mathematically, musically, naturalistically, through group activity, or through quite thinking time. While working on my Master's Degree project, "Finding the Giftedness in all Children", I was able to see how each child in my classroom relied more heavily on one learning style to help them process information. Most people exhibit more than one of the learning styles. Think about yourself and your child as you read about the different types of intelligences.

• Visual/Spatial learners enjoy photography, visual metaphors, puzzles, illustrations, and story maps. Seeing a bar graph would be a better learning tool that hearing something read aloud.
• Verbal/Linguistic learners shine in activities like storytelling, public speaking, drama, and journal writing. Writing about what they learned and telling it to an audience would be a good learning tool.
• Bodily/Kinesthetic learners thrive on hands-on-experiments, field trips, body language, crafts and sports. Actively participating would benefit this type of learner.
• Logical/Mathematical learners tend to be better at problem-solving, coding, data collecting, money management, and scientific methods.
• Musical/Rhythmic students may play an instrument, sing, hum or tap during work or require background music while they study. Turn memorization into rhythmic word play and set it to any musical style.
• Intrapersonal learners work better alone, doing individual study, personal goal-setting and self-esteem activities.
• Interpersonal learners work better in group activities, such as clubs, peer teaching, conflict mediation, and active discussions.
• Naturalist learners tend to better understand ideas when it is related to a natural occurrence.

How do you learn? How does your child learn?

It is important to remember that your child will be better prepared if he or see understands how he or she best learns. Plan activities that will benefit your child's learning style. Share your observations with teachers. Help your child excel in his or her education.

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