March 2010 Blog Posts
While almost all children world-wide gladly participate in chocolate egg hunts, their enthusiasm many other activities - including painting Easter eggs - will be dictated by their learning style.
If your child is analytic, they will probably like Easter Puzzles.
Children who are both analytic and have a visual preference for words might like to try Easter Crosswords.
Children who are both holistic and have a visual preference for words, will love writing about it (have a look here for creative writing ideas with the Easter theme).
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At Creative Learning, we've noticed an interesting shift in Learning Style Preferences when it comes to the Time of Day element (read more about the LSA Pyramid and its elements). Two interesting shifts, to be precise.
The first shift occurs around the time a child enters puberty (typically 11-13):
Early Morning preferences become Late Morning or Afternoon preferences
Late Morning preferences become Afternoon or Evening preferences.
The second shift occurs later in life, any time between 22 and 40:
Evening preferences become Afternoon preferences
Afternoon preferences become...
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Not everybody is suited to learning optimally through an online course. Kinesthetic learners who enjoy working in a group are better off in a face-to-face interactive workshop.
However, if you have a preference in 4 or more of the following, e-learning is for you:
visual (reading)
visual (watching)
tactile
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Your school has purchased LSA profiles for all the children in your class. It's time to rejoice! Finally you will be able to find out the Learning Style of all your star (and not so star!) pupils!
You let them all fill in the questionnaire, you print out the reports...
.... Ouch! So much information! It's all precious, of course, but how can you take it all in at a glance?
If pictures like the ones below give you a headache...
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... you might want to take our online course which...
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Yes, it’s true! Sometimes having too little knowledge is worse than having no knowledge at all! If you know something about the concepts surrounding Learning Styles, you might be tempted to draw your own conclusions about your children’s, your students’ or your own learning style. You may, for example, assume that:
A child who loves chatting about her day will learn well by talking about a new and difficult concept. (Not true: there is a difference between social chatter and the need...