Teaching to your child’s strengths, learning about learning styles

{this is a sponsored post by Great Homeschool Conventions}

I’m a big believer in teaching your child’s strengths.  I’m also a firm believer in learning styles.  I’ve figured out my two primary learning styles, and have an idea of my kids.

{this post contains time sensitive freebies for July 2013}

I’m a visual kinesthetic learner.  If I hear something I’m not as likely to remember it unless I’m doing something, or there’s something to go with it.

By contrast, my boys are audio kinesthetic learners.  They adore Adventures in Odyssey and can remember all of the stories they’ve heard.  They also remember our Alamo simulation from over a year ago, vividly.  They haven’t really differentiated between themselves yet, and seem to be thrilled every time there’s something else the same.

Princess, she’s the ideal public school student.  She’s an audio-visual learner, which is most common.  She remembers every song she hears, and writes notes and draws like crazy.  I don’t know what she’s going to do in the future, but it’s going to be great.

But, like any true educator, or any true scholar, I’m always looking to learn more.  That’s why I’m excited about this week’s freebie from Great Homeschool Conventions (freebie no long available).  It’s all about learning styles.  This book is about multiple intelligences, which is a fancy version of learning styles from my education major classes that I tuned out at the time.  Probably because I was reading a book during class (I was not the ideal student).

Since I didn’t remember my multiple intelligences information from college, this is going to be a great refresher for me.  Just at a quick scan, I’ll tell you I probably think in pictures, because that’s how I rearrange everything in my head, into pictures which I think about how I’d draw.  Princess is going to be rhythms and melodies or nature, and the boys….  I think the boys will be movement.  They are all about moving even in their sleep.  Batman kicked me in the head in his sleep two nights ago.  He was moving in circles.

Oh oh oh!  I just was looking at Great Homeschool Convention’s homepage, and Kathy Hoch, the author of this freebie, is one of the speakers!  Score, I am SO going to that talk.

Do you know your child’s learning styles?  Have you heard of multiple intelligences before?