Children's Learning Styles (continued)
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Learning Styles and Differences, How Children Learn, What are the Different Learning Styles?
Mastery: Understands and develops musical technique. Jobs: technician, music teacher, instrument maker
Understanding: Interprets musical forms and ideas. Jobs: music critic, aficionado, music collector
Self-Expressive: Creates expressive and imaginative performances and compositions. Jobs: composer, conductor, individual/small group performer
Interpersonal: Works with others and uses music to serve others. Jobs: choral, band, and orchestral performer or conductor
Interpersonal Intelligence: Interacts with others, sensitive to their moods, temperament, motivations, and intentions
Mastery: Effective communicator and organizer of people. Jobs: consultant, politician, evangelist
Understanding: Interprets differences in interpersonal clues. Jobs: sociologist, psychologist, psychotherapist
Self-expressive: Creates imaginative and expressive performances and compositions. Jobs: composer, individual or small-group performer
Interpersonal: Works with others to use music to meet the needs of others. Jobs: coach, counselor, salesperson, or trainer
Intrapersonal Intelligence: Understands one's own feelings and emotions
Mastery: Accesses and uses one's own weaknesses, strengths, talents, and interests to set goals. Jobs: planner, small business owner
Understanding: Develops concepts and theories based on self-examination. Jobs: psychologist
Self-expressive: Creates and expresses a personal vision based on inner moods, intuitions, and temperament. Jobs: artist, religious leader, writer
Interpersonal: Uses understanding of self to serve others. Jobs: counselor, social worker
This integrated plan for understanding the acquisition and use of knowledge can help:
- Teachers individualize learning in a manageable way.
- Children acquire the specific skills that society requires.
- Children acquire information and an appreciation of each intelligence by exploring it through their personal learning style.
- Children identify and develop their special talent or talents (Silver, et al., 1997).
(From: "Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences," by H. Silver, R. Strong, and M. Perini, September 1997, Educational Leadership, 55(1), pp. 22-27. Copyrighted 1997by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Reprinted with permission of ASCD. All rights reserved.)
© 2004, Merrill, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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