According to Howard Gardner, there are at least eight different types of intelligences that impact an individual's learning style. Completing a questionnaire can help assess an individual's balance of multiple intelligences. It is important for teachers to be aware of different learning styles and preferences, as adapting lessons to incorporate a variety of delivery styles can help ensure pupils learn better.

1. 1
According to Howard
Learning Gardner, ‘understandings involve a mix of
mental representations, entailing different
Styles intelligences’. Gardner identifies at least
seven intelligences, and it is now thought
that there are at least eight.
VAK
Questionnaire Try assessing
your own
balance of
Multiple intelligences by
Intelligences completing the
wheel questionnaire

2. Turning to the left or the right?
2
Turning anti-clockwise? Turning clockwise?
The left side
The right side
of your brain
of your brain is
is dominant
dominant
(most
(less
common).
common).

3. Left side Right side
3
Logical, details are Use feelings; need to
important; facts rule; know the whole picture;
words and language imagination rules;
are important; present symbols and images are
and past; mathematics important; present and
and science; need future; understand space
order; practical; prefer and shape; believe;
safety. consider possibilities;
prepared to take risks.

4. 4
4
Dominance

5. 5
5
Dominance
Profiles

6. 6
The
eye

7. 7
The
ear

8. 8
The
hand

9. 9
The
foot

10. 10
What is
your
profile?

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 We are all different
 We have different learning preferences
Consideration  Teachers tend to have a preference for
of Learning delivery
Styles  We need to be conscious that some
pupils may not be ‘hard-wired’ to learn
in the way that we deliver lessons
 If we can adapt to deliver in a variety of
styles, it is more likely that pupils will
learn better