Learning Style Reflection

Analyze your strengths and weaknesses based on both sets of results. Ask yourself: Does it ring true in my everyday life? How might this affect my teaching? What will I have to do to counteract this affect? How can I ensure I will teach to those students UNLIKE me?


After taking the learning style and multiple intelligence tests, I learned that I am predominately a musical learner. I am also a Interpersonal/ Linguistic learner. I learn best by hearing information sequentially, and have a difficult time remembering visual images. I often find myself singing or taping a beat while completing my homework. When I put what I am learning into a musical song or beat I am able to learn the material faster.

Since I learn best by hearing material, I am naturally inclined to teach my students using this method. However most students are visual and kinesthetic learners. Acknowledging this I try my best to incorporate auditory, visual, and kinesthetic opportunities into each of my Sunday school lessons.

For example, this summer my first grade S.S. was learning about the tabernacle in Leviticus. One week I brought in props and set up a classroom tabernacle. The children were able to walk through the court yard and see the bronze alter, wash there hands in the bronze basin, listen to me as I explained how and why sacrifices were offered, eat a piece of bread as I taught them about the table of show bread, and dress up as priests before entering the holy of holies. The kids absolutely loved it! It kept their attention the for the whole hour. This is a creative idea which highlights 4 of the 5 senses and covers 3 or 4 of the multiple intelligences.