Learning/Thinking
Styles and Multiple
Intelligences
Lesson 5- FLCT
Mitch Mamites
* Sensory Preferences
* Brain Hemispheres
• Individual • Multiple
Diversity • Learning Intelligence
Styles s
*Origins
* Growth 2V2M2IBEN
*Aspirations
“Learning style inventories remain a popular classroom tool
despite the fact that research has found little evidence that
matching a student's learning preferences to instructional
methods produces better educational outcomes. A number
of studies have found that students taught according to their
identified learning style do no better than students who are
not matched to their style.” - (How a Learning Style Inventory Can
Help Your Student Find Strengths, 2020)
Educator Mark K. Smith argued that Kolb's
model is supported only by weak empirical
evidence and that the learning process is
actually far more complex than the theory
suggests. He also noted that the theory fails
to fully acknowledge how different
experiences and cultures may impact the
learning process.
Learning Styles
• A person’s typical mode of thinking, remembering or
solving problems
• Usually bipolar in nature(two-dimensions)
• Proposes that people learn differently and that
designing educational instructions based on the
learning styles is more advantageous or enhance the
educational process
• “the ways in which, and the conditions under which,
learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive,
process, store, and recall what they are attempting to
learn and how they prefer to approach different
learning tasks” (Kitchie, 2008, pp. 114-115).
Sensory Preferences and Global-
analytic Continuum Learning styles
1. VISUAL LEARNERS- they prefer to see their
teacher’s actions and facial expressions.
• Learn best from visual aids
• May think in pictures
• Preferred to take detailed notes
Visual iconic- more interested in visual imagery like films, graphic
displays to solidify learning
Visual symbolic- comfortable with abstract symbolism.
AUDITORY LEARNERS
• Learns best through verbal lectures, discussion and listening
• Interprets the underlying meaning of the speech through listening to the tone
of voice, pitch and speed
• Usually reads aloud when they study
• Two categories:
Listeners
Talkers
KINESTHETIC/TACTILE
LEARNERS
• Learns more with hands-on
approach, explorations of
physical world, using their
body. Unable to sit still for long.
• Preferred to use psychomotor
skills: good motor memory and
coordination
Global-Analytic Continuum Learner
Multiple Intelligences
• Proposed by Howard Gardner
• This theory suggests that traditional psychometric views of intelligence are
too limited.
• In order to capture the full range of abilities and talents that people
possess, Gardner theorizes that people do not have just an intellectual
capacity, but have many kinds of intelligence, including musical,
interpersonal, spatial-visual, and linguistic intelligences.
Criticism on Multiple Intelligences of Gardner
• “ Gardner’s theory has come under criticism from both psychologists and
educators. These critics argue that Gardner’s definition of intelligence is
too broad and that his eight different "intelligences" simply represent
talents, personality traits, and abilities. Gardner’s theory also suffers
from a lack of supporting empirical research.Despite this, the theory of
multiple intelligences enjoys considerable popularity with educators.
Many teachers utilize multiple intelligences in their teaching philosophies
and work to integrate Gardner’s theory into the classroom”
Multiple Intelligences: H. Gardner
• You will learn about the topic on these videos:
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ocUjtB6-4Q
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7-rYp-BQJQ
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2pnYne0ZA
Teaching tips on Multiple Intelligences &
Learning Styles
• Learn from this video and do more research on
strategies in accommodating the different learning
styles and multiple intelligences
• Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVg9n0l0Gf0
1. Choose two learning styles and the related
multiple intelligence/s;
Game Time!
2. Create a game that would enhance your
chosen learning styles and multiple
intelligence as part of instructional strategy.
✔ Indicate the number of members in a group
✔ Instructions on how the game can be played,
including the point system or how a winner
be chosen
✔ Purpose or goals of the game
✔ What learning styles are being addressed
3. Provide a sample video on how the game
could be played.
4. Upload the video in FB (tag me). Sept 28,
2022
• Each group should be
composed of NOT MORE
THAN seven members
ONLY
• The game you will create
should not be more than
5 minutes
• Include the explanation
purpose/s and mechanics
in the video. Also, indicate
the types of learning and
multiple intelligences you
have chosen at the
beginning of the video
Rubrics:
REFERENCES
• (How a Learning Style Inventory Can Help Your Student Find Strengths, 2020)
• Lucas, M.R., PhD and Corpuz, B., PhD. (2014). Facilitating Learning: A Metacognitive Process, 4th Edition.
Lorimar Publishing, Inc.
• (Newton, 2015) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mouse-man/201504/what-are-learning-styles
• http://olms.cte.jhu.edu/olms2/data/ck/sites/199/files/Learning%20Styles%20Principles_Notes(1).pdf
