J's learning style

Today I began reading a book called " Discover Your Child's Learning Style" by Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson.

I had J girl take the Learning Style Profile Assessment and this is a summary of what we found out about her.

Disposition Assessment: She is Performing. (Other possibilities include Producing, Inventing, Relating/Inspiring, and Thinking/Creating)

Modality: She is Tactile/Kinesthetic (other possibilities include Visual and Auditory)

Environment: She likes it quiet but with others people who are also quiet. She likes lying on the bed, floor, or couch (vs. sitting at table,sitting on the floor, standing at the board), and bright light(vs. low light, sunlight, light from window,or none)

Time of day she is most active: after breakfast
Time of day she is least active: during/after dinner

Talents: she scored highest in interact-self, interact-others, interact-animals, Humor, Life skills (all 100 points). Other area include language/verbal, artistic/visual, music, numbers, mechanical, logic/reasoning coordination and interact-nature. But according to the book, a score of 60 and higher is considered talents. In that case, J has talents in all areas except mechanical reasoning. She got 50points on that one. :)

She learns best when she
1) listen to someone talk
2) look up info in reference books
3) write about the lesson
(other possibilities include listening to tape, talk in group, see pictures, watch movie/slide, read about lesson, hands on, act out the lesson, draw picture of the lesson)

Something she want to do sometime in her life: "To do good." Examples of what she means, "help an animal, help a person." (This is where interest is assessed and find out what's important to the person.)

Anyway, I thought it was very interesting and definitely helpful. One suggestion made by the authors of the book is to re-take the assessment every few years. I think that is an excellent recommendation.