Preffered Learning

          I realize that this was suppose to be posted on discussion board, but I made a mistake and posted it here. I thought about deleting it, but decided against it. Maybe it will have more people looking into learning styles sometime in the future.Even though I have read a lot about preferred learning, I never really thought much about it. Sure, I would say to myself," I'm a visual learner".  I never thought about the people around me either.
          My oldest daughter, Hannah, is a visual learner also. It is easy for me to help her with her homework when she runs into difficulties. My youngest daughter, Becca, is a different story.I get so frustrated when I try to explain things ti her. We never seem to connect. If I see something something, whether it is in writing or pictured in a diagram, I can usually understand it. If I am trying to work out a problem or figure out something, I try to picture it in my head even words that I am trying to spell. I try to get Becca to attach her problems the same way. We both get frustrated. I get frustrated because she doesn't do it, and she gets frustrated because she still doesn't understand it.
          After reading these two chapters, another picture flashed into my head. Hello!!!! Becca is most definitely a kinesthetic learner. All of the fidgeting she does while I'm trying to explain her homework to her drives me insane. I find it distracting, and I often feel as if she isn't truly paying attention. I hate to say it, she often got in trouble for it too, but not anymore. I'm going to encourage different kinesthetic learning strategies in the future. Hopefully we can finally "see" eye to eye when I'm needed to help with her homework.
         I went to the website to discover what multi-intelligence category I fall under. My top two categories were linguistics and nature. That doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is that I score so low in some of the other categories. I think of myself as a pretty well rounded individual in most areas except for math. Math is my mortal enemy. If I see it done, I will eventually conquer it, but it doesn't come easy.
         After seeing my results, it is my goal to work harder in these areas or to at least recognize them in others ( like future students) and provide plenty of different instructional strategies in order to try and accommodate everyone.