MODULE 5:

LEARNING /THINKING
STYLES AND
MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES
LEARNING/THINKING STYLES
• REFERS TO THE PREFERRED WAY AN
INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES TO THE INFORMATION.
• THEY DESCRIBE A PERSON’S TYPICAL MODE OF
THINKING, REMEMBERINGOR PROBLEM
SOLVING.
• THERE ARE SEVERAL PERSPECTIVES ABOUT
LEARNING THINKING STYLES. WE SHALL
FOCUSES ON SENSORY PREFERENCE AND THE
GLOBAL-ANALYTIC CONTINIUM.
SENSORY PREFERENCES
• INDIVIDUALS TEND TO GRAVIATE TOWARD
ONE OR TWO TYPES OF SENSORY INPUT AND
MAINTAIN IS A DOMINANCE IN ONE OF THE
FOLLOWING TYPES?

• VISUAL LEARNERS
• AUDITORY LERANERS
• TACTILE/KINESTHETIC LEARNERS
VISUAL LEARNERS
• THEY MAY THINK IN PICTURES AND LEARN
BEST FROM VISUAL AIDS INCLUDING;
DIAGRAMS, ILLUSTRATED TEXT
BOOKS,OVERHEADTRANSPARENCIES, VIDEOS,
FLIPCHARTS, AND HAND-OUTS.
• DURING A LECTURE OR CLASSROOM
DISCUSSION THEY OFTEN PREPARE TO TAKE
DETAILES NOTES TO ABSORB THE
INFORMATION.
• RI CHARDE FIRTHER BREAK DOWNS VISUAL
LEARNERS INTO VISUAL ICONIC AND VISUAL
SYMBOLIC.

• VISUAL ICONIC
-LEARNERS ARE MORE INTERESTED IN VISUAL
IMAGERY SUCH AS FILM, GRAPHIC, DISPLAYS, OR
PICTURES IN ORDER TO SOLIDARITY LEARNING.
-THEY USUALLY HAVE GOOD “PICTURE MEMORY”.
 VISUAL SYMBOLIC
-LEARNERS FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH ABSTRACT
SYMBOLISM SUCH AS MATHEMATIC FORMULATE
ON THE WRITTEN WORD.

-THEY TEND TO BE GOOD ABSTARCT THINKERS

WHO DO NOT REQUIRE PRACTICAL MEANS FOR
LEARNING.
AUDITORY LEARNER

• THEY ARE THE UNDERLYING MEANINGS OF

SPEECH THROUGH LISTENING TO TONE OF
VOICE,PITCH, SPEED AND OTHER NUANCEN.

• THEY CAN ATTEND ORALLY TO DETAIL,

TRANSLATE THE SPOKEN WORD EASILY INTO
WRITTEN WORD, AND ARE NOT EASILY
DISTRACTED IN THEIR LISTENING ABILITY.
1. LISTENERS
-THEY MAY EVEN CARRY ON MENTAL
CONVERSATIONS AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO
EXTEND WHAT THEYLEARNED BY REVIEWING IN
THEIR HEAD WHAT THEY HEARD OTHER SAY.
2. TALKERS
-THEY ARE THE ONES WHOS PREFER TO TALKS
AND DISCUSS. THEY OFTEN FIND THEMSELVES
TALKING TO THOSE AROUND THEM.
-THEY TEND TO WHISPER COMMENTS TO
THEMSELVES DURING CLASS WHEN THET
TEACHER DOES NOT ASK QUESTIONS.
TACTILE/ KINESTHETIC LEARNERS:
LEARNERS BENEFIT MUCH FROM HANDS-ON
APPROACH, ACTIVELY EXPLORING THE
PHYSICALWORLD AROUND THEM. THEY TEND
TO PREFER “LEARNING BY
DOING”.PREFFERING THE USE OF
PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS. THEY TEND TO HAVE
GOOD MOTOR MEMORY AND MOTOR
COORDINATION.
GLOBAL ANALYTIC CONTINUUM
*GLOBAL (RIGHT BRAIN)
-GLOBAL THINKERS LEAN TOWARDS NON-
LINEAR THOUGHT AND TEND TO SEE THE
WHOLE PATTERN RATHER THAN PARTICLE
ELEMENTS. THEY ARE THE “FOREST SEERS”
WHO GIVE ATTENTION ONLY TO ITHE
OVERALL STRUCTURE AND SOMETIMES
IGNORE DETAILS.
ANALYTIC (LEFFT BRAIN)
ANALYTIC THINKER TEND TOWARD THE
LINEAR, STEP BY STEP PROCESSES OF
LEARNING.THEY TEND TO SEE FINITE
ELEMENTS OF PATTERN RATHER THAN THE
WHOLE, THEY ARE THE “TREE SEERS”.
-THEY ARE MORE COMFORTABLE IN AWORLD
OF DETAILS AND HIERACHIES OF
INFORMATION.
-SEVERAL THEORIST HAVE TIED THE GLOBAL-
ANALYTIC CONTINUUM TO THE LEFT
BRAIN/RIGHT BRAINCONTINUUM.
-ACCORDING TO ROGER SPERRY’S MODEL OF THE
LEFT BRAINED DOMINANT INDIVIDUALS IS
PORTRAYED AS THE LINEAR (ANALYTIC) VERBAL
MATHEMATICAL THINKER WHILE THE RIGHT
BRAINED PERSON IS ONE WHO IS VIEWED AS
GLOBAL, NON LINEAR AND HOLISTIC IN
THOUGHT PREFERENCES. BOTH SIDE OF THE
BRAIN CAN REASON BUT USE DIFFERENT
STRATEGIES.
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE
NINE DISTINCT FORMS OF INTELLIGENCES
ACCORDING TO HOWARD GARDNER
• VISUAL/SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
• VERBAL/LINGUISTIC (WORD SMART)
• MATHEMATICAL/LOGICAL (NUMBER SMART/LOGIC
SMART
• BODILY/KINESTHIC (BODY SMART)
• MUSICAL (MUSIC SMART)
NINE DISTINCT FORMS OF INTELLIGENCES
ACCORDING TO HOWARD GARDNER
• INTRAPERSONAL (SELF SMART)
• INTERPERSONAL (PEOPLE SMART)
• NATURALIST (NATURE SMART)
• EXISTENTIAL (SPIRIT SMART)
 PROVERBS 4:23
“ABOVE ELSE GUARD YOUR
HEART, FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO
FLOWS FROM IT”.
GOD BLESS EVERYONE!!