Knowing How To Learn

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Knowing How To Learn

Developed by Melinda Stanley

�Learning how to recognize and appreciate learning styles can help you identify the natural strengths and tendencies each individual possesses.�

-Cynthia Ulrich Tobias

Complete two of the Learning Style Inventories listed below. Upon completion of the surveys, provide information on the following:

� Provide background information on the inventories you completed.

� What information is the inventory meant to tell you about yourself?

� What are the results of the inventories and what do they tell you about yourself?

� How can you use this information to be a better student/learner?

� What is one thing that you will change as a result of the information you learned?

Learning Style Inventories:

1. Howard Gardner�s Multiple Intelligences survey: http://www.surfaquarium.com/MIinvent.htm

2. Keirsey Temperment Sorter at http://www.advisorteam.com/user/ktsintro.asp

3. Discovery Wheel at http://college.hmco.com/success/students/wheel.html

4. Complete the Personal Learning Style Inventory at

http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html