Learning styles

If you are interested in focussing on your learning style and getting your students to think about their own, here are a few useful links:

• Two lessons plans

learning styles (including a listening, personal dictionaries and grammar revision activities)

multiple intelligences (including how to introduce the topic and matching and problem solving activities)

• Two online quizzes

from the BBC

Birmingham City Council quiz

The more we vary activities, the more lessons will appeal to individual students. Helping them reflect on how they learn better also makes them responsible for their own learning and enables them to be more efficient students, which is also motivating and productive. Multiple Intelligences are not an answer to everything, but they are a useful tool for teachers to react to different personalities and make sure their lessons are as student centred as possible.