Throughout our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. We can attribute this to our learning style. A personÃÂÃÂs learning style is the method through which they gain information about their environment. Research is going on all over the world to help explain learning styles. As teachers, it is our responsibility to learn about these different learning styles so that we can appeal to every type of learner in our classrooms. Howard Gardner has elaborated on the concept of learning style through what he calls ÃÂÃÂmultiple intelligenceÃÂÃÂsÃÂÃÂ. Understanding these intelligenceÃÂÃÂs will help us to design our classrooms and curriculum in a way that will appeal to all of our students. We may even be able to curb negative behavior by reaching students in a different way. If we implement activities that call upon the use of all these ÃÂÃÂintelligenceÃÂÃÂsÃÂÃÂ we will get the best out of all of our students (Santrock 311).
Their grades will improve and they will retain more information for a longer period of time. Learning styles can also help us to determine possible career paths so that we can help to steer children in the right direction. Discovering our own learning styles can potentially maximize our own information processing and teaching techniques.
Howard Gardner is a professor at Harvard who has studied the idea of intelligence in a way that links research and personal experience. He began speaking about ÃÂÃÂmultiple intelligenceÃÂÃÂsÃÂÃÂ in 1983. Since then, he has won a MacArthur ÃÂÃÂgeniusÃÂÃÂ grant, he has written books which have been translated into twenty languages, and he gives about seventy-five speeches a year. His ideas have been backed and popularized by many groups seeking to reform the current educational system. The idea is that we...