1Learning

Styles VAK

Questionnaire

Multiple Intelligences wheel

According to Howard Gardner, ‘understandings involve a mix of mental

representations, entailing different intelligences’. Gardner identifies at least seven intelligences, and it is now thought

that there are at least eight.

Try assessing your own balance of intelligences by completing the questionnaire

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Turning anti-clockwise? Turning clockwise?

The left side of your brain is dominant (most common).

The right side of your brain is dominant (less common).

Turning to the left or the right?

Left side Right side3

Logical, details are important; facts rule; words and language are important; present and past; mathematics and science; need order; practical; prefer safety.

Use feelings; need to know the whole picture; imagination rules; symbols and images are important; present and future; understand space and shape; believe; consider possibilities; prepared to take risks.

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Dominance

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Dominance Profiles

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The eye

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The ear

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The hand

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The foot

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What is your profile?

Consideration of Learning Styles

We are all differentWe have different learning

preferencesTeachers tend to have a preference

for deliveryWe need to be conscious that some

pupils may not be ‘hard-wired’ to learn in the way that we deliver lessons

If we can adapt to deliver in a variety of styles, it is more likely that pupils will learn better

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