Learning Styles

Learning Styles / Multiple Intelligences Resources

Websites: About Learning Styles

Let's Learn about Learning Styles website contains information about learning styles. http://hometown.aol.com/PegFlint/homeschool_learningstyles.html

LDRC Learning Disabilities Resource Community website has a good explanation of 8 learning styles/multiple intelligences as well resources, articles, and helpful definitions. http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php?eightstyles=1

INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY's Learning Style Site has indepth learning style information for older students, http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/facdev/pedagogies/styles/model.html

Websites: Determining Learning Styles

Learning Styles chart for determining learning styles, http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.ht

CAREER RESOURCE CENTER's Index of Learning Styles inventory, http://www.crc4mse.org/ILS/Index.html

HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL STUDENT website's, "How to Identify Your Best Learning Styles" inventory, http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~don/Study/13styles.html

LEARNING STYLES by R.M. Felder website includes information, resources and an "Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire," http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.html

LEARNING STYLES ON THE WEB by Karen J. Ristuccia's website includes several learning styles inventories (many for purchase), information, resources, and more, http://www.csrnet.org/csrnet/articles/web-learning-styles.html .
The Learning Style Teaching Methods section is very good, http://www2.gsu.edu/~dschjb/wwwmbti.html

PRO TEACHER! DIRECTORY's website includes a repository of links to information, resources, inventories, and more, http://www.proteacher.com/040009.shtml

TRACKSTAR'S Learning Styles website includes information, resources, links, on-line tests and inventories, etc. http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp

The UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA's website has a free learning styles inventory: http://usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/

"What's Your Child's Primary Learning Style" quiz from FAMILY EDUCATION.COM's website http://familyeducation.com/quiz/0,1399,3-2740,00.html

School Vendor Products: (For purchase)
"The Kaleidoscope Profile." Inexpensive, but comprehensive. Purchase from PERFORMANCE LEARNING SYSTEMS, INC. (PLS). Four editions available: (1) educators, (2) professionals in the workplace, (3) students grades 3 - 6, (4) students grades 7 - 12. http://www.plsweb.com

Barsch Learning Style Inventory, revised edition. Children ages 14 to adult. Purchase this hardcopy inventory from ACADEMIC THERAPY PUBLICATIONS, http://www.academictherapy.com/detailATP.tpl?action=search&eqskudatarq=905-2

Books:
The books listed below are available from various book stores.

AWAKENING YOUR CHILD'S NATURAL GENIUS: ENHANCING CURIOSITY, CREATIVITY, AND LEARNING ABILITY by Thomas Armstrong; ISBN: 0874776082, J.P. Tarcher, 1991.

DISCOVER YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING STYLE (CHILDREN LEARN IN UNIQUE WAYS -- HERE'S THE KEY TO EVERY CHILD'S LEARNING SUCCESS) by Mariaemma Willis, M.S. and Victoria Kindle Hodson, M.A.; ISBN 0761520139, Prima Publishing, 1999.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ... EXPERIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT by David A. Kolb; ISBN: 0132952610, Prentice Hall, 1983.

FRAMES OF MIND: THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES by Howard Gardner; ISBN: 0465025102, Basic Books, 1993.

GROWING UP LEARNING -- IDENTIFYING AND TEACHING CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES by Walter B. Barbe, Ph.D.; ISBN: 1567620884, Modern Learning Press, 1998.

HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING ABILITY -- A COMPLETE GUIDE TO CHOOSING AND USING THE BEST GAMES, TOYS, ACTIVITIES, LEARNING AIDS & TACTICS FOR YOUR CHILD by Dr. Lauren Bradway and Barbara Albers Hill; ISBN: 089529519, Avery Publishing Group, Inc., 1993.

IN THEIR OWN WAY -- DISCOVERING AND ENCOURAGING YOUR CHILD'S PERSONAL LEARNING STYLE by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.; ISBN: 0874774462, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1987.

MARCHING TO DIFFERENT DRUMMERS by Pat Burke Guild and Stephen Garger; ISBN: 1871203065, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: THE THEORY IN PRACTICE by Howard Gardner; ISBN: 046501822X, Basic Books, 1993.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME: CHARACTER AND TEMPERAMENT TYPES by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates; ISBN: 0960695400, Prometheus Nemesis Book Co., 1984.

SEVEN KINDS OF SMART by Thomas Armstrong; ISBN: 0452281377, Plume, 1999.

TAMING THE DRAGONS: REAL HELP FOR REAL SCHOOL PROBLEMS by Susan Setley; ISBN: 1886243042, Susan G. Setley, 1995.