Clipboard learners thrive in structured environments with clear expectations and feedback. They prefer hands-on learning, concrete examples, and step-by-step instructions. Clipboard learners focus on accuracy, planning, rules, and details. While they excel with organization and precision, they may struggle with flexibility, imagination, and understanding different perspectives.

1. Clipboard Learning Tendencies
Innate Abilities Work Best When They
• Precision and accuracy • Have real experiences
• Planning and organizing • Are given concrete examples, not theories
• Structured conditions/environments • Have structures, quiet, orderly environments
• Striving for perfection • Are given detailed directions/ models
• Details and specificity • Work in consistent/efficient surroundings
• Compliancy with rules/standards
• Externally motivated; delay gratification
Challenges They Face What They Need to Work On
• Working without monitoring/feedback • Expressing their feelings
• Selecting from choices/random options • Honoring process and product
• Using their imagination • Honoring other learning styles
• Working without parameters/directions • Patience vs. immediate conclusions
• Hearing opposing viewpoints • Listening to others
• Being in new situations • Seeing the big picture
• Understanding others’ feelings • Seeing value in people as well as product
Common Sense Learner Tendencies
• Desires practicality and usability • Focuses on what works
• Likes to try things out and use new ideas • Likes a plan
• Wants information to be applicable to like • Likes things settled and complete
• Uses comparisons to make sense of • Finishing is important
information • Essentials are important
• Interested in “how to” • Schedule is necessary, lists and agendas
Likes Dislikes
• Field trips • Memorizing; group work
• Movement and hands-on • Writing assignments
• Skills-oriented evaluations; labs • Peer evaluation, being given answers
Reading Preferences Writing Preferences
• Personal engagement • Likes to write to organize or report info
• Likes to read for practical reasons and info • Likes to write for practical purposes
• Prefers reality • Appreciates guidelines, models, examples
• Responds to reading to find information
Instructional Activities: Structure and details in directions, hands-on approaches, how-to projects
Activities They Prefer: Sorting, labeling, collecting, charting, constructing, classifying, measuring
Multiple Intelligences Strengths: Logical/mathematical, naturalist, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic