Learning Styles

Learning Styles Don't Exist
Daniel Willingham 

Thoughts and Observations:

Types of Learners
1. Visual
2. Auditory
3. Kinestetic 

• Most teachers want students to learn meaning rather than visually, auditory, and kinesteticly. 

• The question determines the way in which the information is learned.

• Good teaching is good teaching, and teachers don't need to adjust teaching to specific learning styles. 

• There should be a variety of presentation of styles because of the questions that are being asked.

The Multiple Intelligence Theory
Howard Gardner

Thoughts and Observations:

Students have different strengths in the area of intelligence. 
Therefore, treating all students the same is not fair. 

Everything can be taught in more than one way. 
Are we reaching every child? Are there other ways to present information? 

Since students learn differently, students should also have the opportunity to be tested differently. 



How is the Multiple Intelligence Theory different from the Theory of Learning Styles?

The Theory of Learning styles focuses on how students prefer to concentrate and retain information while Multiple Intelligence Theory focuses on understanding, defining, and assessing unique intelligence factors. Multiple Intelligence promotes the idea of different ways to learn therefore there show be multiple ways present and tested. Learning Styles also agrees that there should be multiple ways being presented but that "good teaching is good teaching."