Anne McDonough's List: Brain Based Teaching: Learning Styles

"# Your type formula according to Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers typology along with the strengths of the preferences
# The description of your personality type
# The list of occupations and educational institutions where you can get relevant degree or training, most suitable for your personality type - Jung Career Indicator™"

6 min video

Kid friendly version of learning styles, use the side side bar for more information

"It is especially crucial to take your students' learning styles into account when you are teaching English language learners. This articles gives a brief description of each style and how you can teach to it."

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"learning styles can sometimes harm learning rather than help them. Rather than teaching learners that knowing and using their personal learning style is best for them, we should be showing them how an over-reliance on one's learning style is actually harmful, thus they need to select the best style or modality for the task on hand. That is, when the learner chooses his or her preferred learning style, then that learner should be asking, "Is this really the best learning style for me to use, or would another one work better?"

Choosing the best learning method is part of metalearning-being aware of and taking control of one's learning (Biggs, 1985). This concept is related to metacognition.

The meta-analysis of educational interventions conducted by (Hattie, Biggs, Purdie, 1996) can help us put metalearning in context with other interventions, which allows us to put our limited resources and efforts into the interventions that have the largest effect sizes:"

24 questions, easy to use with students

24 questions determines auditory, visual or kinetic