Ability to produce and appreciate music. These musically inclined learners think in sounds, rhythms and patterns. They immediately respond to music either appreciating or criticizing what they hear. Many of these learners are extremely sensitive to environmental sounds (e.g. crickets, bells, dripping taps).
Their skills include:
- playing musical instruments
- recognizing tonal patterns
- understanding the structure and rhythm of music
Possible career paths:
Ability to use reason, logic and numbers. These learners think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information. Always curious about the world around them, these learner ask lots of questions and like to do experiments.
Their skills include:
- classifying and categorizing information
- working with abstract concepts to figure out the relationship of each to the other
- handling long chains of reason to make local progressions
- doing controlled experiments
- questioning and wondering about natural events
- performing complex mathematical calculations
- working with geometric shapes
Possible career paths:
Ability to relate and understand others. These learners try to see things from other people’s point of view in order to understand how they think and feel. They often have an uncanny ability to sense feelings, intentions and motivations. They are great organizers, although they sometimes resort to manipulation. Generally they try to maintain peace in group settings and encourage co-operation.They use both verbal (e.g. speaking) and non-verbal language (e.g. eye contact, body language) to open communication channels with others.
Their skills include:
- seeing things from other perspectives (dual-perspective)
- understanding other people’s moods and feelings
- noticing people’s moods, motivations and intentions
- communicating both verbally and non-verbally
- peaceful conflict resolution
- establishing positive relations with other people
Possible Career Paths:
Ability to control body movements and handle objects skillfully. These learners express themselves through movement. They have a good sense of balance and eye-hand co-ordination. (e.g. ball play, balancing beams). Through interacting with the space around them, they are able to remember and process information.
Their skills include:
- using their hands to create or build
- expressing emotions through the body
Possible career paths:
- physical education teachers
Ability to self-reflect and be aware of one’s inner state of being. These learners try to understand their inner feelings, dreams, relationships with others, and strengths and weaknesses.
Their Skills include:
- recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses
- reflecting and analyzing themselves
- awareness of their inner feelings
- evaluating their thinking patterns
- reasoning with themselves
- understanding their role in relationship to others
Possible Career Paths:
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