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Running Head: Personal Learning Style

Personal Learning Style and the Eight Intelligences

Benette S. Yates

College of Southern Nevada

Edu 201-1011

Susan Bridges

May 9, 2021
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Running Head: Personal Learning Style
Personal Learning Style and the Eight Intelligences

The theory of multiple intelligences states that Standard psychometric views of

intelligence are too constrained. There are eight types of intelligence; naturalistic, linguistic,

musical, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, spatial, logical-mathematical intelligence, intrapersonal,

and interpersonal intelligence.  Kinesthetic intelligence involves the ability to communicate

thoughts and emotions with the entire body and the capacity to develop elements with the hands

(Logsdon, 2021). Kinesthetic knowledge manifests itself in moving, running, dancing,

performing, playing sports, imitating movements or expressions, and leaping. My learning style

is bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and this is the intelligence style that I will explain throughout

my essay.

Being a person who possesses bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, I understand things more if

I see do them practically. Also, I grasp things better if the person passing the information to me

makes some movements. For example, I find practical lessons easy to understand than theoretical

classes taught inside the classroom. Most teachers do not demonstrate what they are teaching

while lecturing in class, and they do a verbal talk. That makes it hard for me to remember the

things they said because they were not accompanied by physical movement. Reading notes that I

wrote during lessons is usually an uphill task for me. I can easily read but retaining the

information in long-term memory is generally almost impossible. However, I perform well in

drama, sports, music, and lab experiments. These are the things that interest me to the fullest.

Bearing in mind that I possess bodily-kinesthetic, I aspire to become a great teacher of young

children in the future. Being a teacher I will teach those lessons practically. For example, doing

physical exercise which will enable kids to be fit and healthy, and make them remember the

content I teach them.

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Running Head: Personal Learning Style
References

Logsdon, A. (2021, February 18). How Children Learn Through the Bodily Kinesthetic Style.

Retrieved from Verywell Family website: https://www.verywellfamily.com/kinesthetic-

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