Learning in Recent Years Is Essay

(3) According to the Multiple Intelligences Survey, I have quite a bit of intrapersonal and interpersonal intellegence and a moderate amount of musical and kinesthetic intelligence. This makes sense because I enjoy analyzing people and situations; and, I decided to leave my old job because I was bored sitting still behind a desk and not talking to anyone for most of the day.

As I was enjoying the surveys so much, also I took Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory and discovered that my learning style consists of doing and feeling or what Kolb would abbreviate as "CE/AE." When these findings are placed on the two-by-two grid by Kolb, my learning style is accommodating. An accommodating learning style is often times referred to as a "hands-on" style and one that relies upon intuition over logic. In fact, these findings also did not surprise me because I have to do something at least two times before I understand how to do it; and, I'd much rather try to figure out how to put together a dresser from IKEA on my own as opposed to have to do the logical thing which would be to actually unfold and read the directions!

The last learning styles quiz that I took revealed that I am a true visual learner with kinesthetic learning coming up a close second.This does not surprise me because I have to be able to visualize something in my head or I won't remember it. This could be a function of aging or my lack of gingko biloba, but I do believe that if I am allowed to move, to pace, or to tap my feet, I will generally retain the information better.

References

Codde, PhD, J.R. (2006). Using Learning Contracts in the College Classroom. Michigan….....