My Learning Styles

The other day in Rogate Ms. Mystrena introduced to us two new tests created by foreign psychologists, sparking a memory I've been thinking about. My brother's 21 years old and a senior in college, and he's been through a lot of thinking about a job for the future. Originally he was set on becoming a lawyer, then a doctor -- he even went to an introduction to medical school for a few days -- and then for two or three of his years in college he wanted to study psychology. Interestingly enough, he's changed his mind again recently. It could've been him developing these tests later in life. Nothing too significant about it, but I thought I'd share that. 

Anyway, according to my Gardner Multiple Intelligences Test, I'm both a musical and spatial learner, describing me surprisingly well. I think via rhythms, melodies, and images. My needs include LEGOs, movies, imagination games, trips to art museums, musical instruments, and trips to concerts. (I'll  be the first to admit that I still love LEGOs, by the way.) Matching reality I love singing, designing, whistling, humming, and drawing. I'm stunned at how accurate this was.

On the flip side, I took the Gregorc Learning/Teaching Styles test as well, supposedly telling me WHO I AM and HOW I LEARN. To my pleasure I scored most for Abstract Random, which comes as no huge shock; though I did think I had a possibility for Abstract Sequential. I am indeed personal, sensitive, colorful, and imaginative. I learn by use of fantasy and imagination, themes, art, humor, and media & music. 

By learning these things about myself I'll have to remember that I need to balance out my artistic self by focusing on schoolwork and not solely drawing. I do learn from the perfect length lecture, I realized, not too long, but long enough. 

Three people I admire are my mom, Chase Utley, second baseman of the Phillies, and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. My mom must be an concrete random learner, since she's creative with practical ideas. Last, I'm guessing Rowling is a concrete random learner since she's obviously very experimental with few restrictions and creative. Last, Utley is probably a concrete sequential type, weighing on account of most of his moves being planned and coached pre-baseball game.

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