How do you learn?

One of the most important things about education is knowing how your students learn and how to facilitate learning for each student. Sometimes it is difficult to reach a student who has a different learning style than you do so it is important to identify your learning style so that you can learn techniques for other styles.

I took a learning styles test using the website: http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire.

According to this website my learning style is "multimodal" With the strongest points in Read/Write and Kinesthetic learning. I like written directions and I like to touch, feel, and experiment in order to learn. These learning styles do make sense because if I do not take pages and pages of notes as someone is talking, I remember nothing! And I learn by doing, if it is something new I will experiment and work with it until I figure it out. I have always thought that my learning style was visual so it was interesting to get another result!

After discovering what my learning style was I went to http://www.picassohead.com/create.html in order to create something that represented my unique learning style. This is my creation...

Creating a representation of a learning style that is not aural, visual, or auditory is interesting because my learning style involves my hands predominately.

These tools allow for a creative side that is not always available in schools. So many times, the emphasis is placed on academics with absolutely no room for creativity. Education could go so much further if we would just allow students to tap into their unique creativity and to learn in a way that best suits them!