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 * Learning Profile **

In the survey that you filled out for this workshop you indicated that Learning Profiles were something that you were interested in. I have culled together some information for you to look at specific to this topic.

**Individually**: Take the and see where you rank. Do you agree with the results?

**Group/Individual:** **Option 1**: There are a ton of Learning Style tests online. Spend the next 20 min or so looking online for a learning style test that you could administer to your students and think about how you would work with the results.

**Option 2**: You could work with a partner, or by yourself, and take a current lesson(s) and look for the barriers that exist for different students of different learning styles and come up with strategies on how to incorporate all learners.

**Option 3**: You could work with a partner in the same content area, or by yourself, and look over the //Lesson Planning Ideas// handouts and determine if any of these are suitable for a specific lesson.

**Group**: Come back together as a group and discuss what you have done regarding Learning Styles and how you will use it in class.

**Individual**: Fill out the

** Discussion Questions when Planning Lessons Differentiated by Learning Profile ** 1. Think about the students you teach. In what ways do you see gender influencing how students respond in the classroom? In what ways do you see culture influence learning? (Be sure to think about both majority and minority cultures.) 2. Give examples of students of a given gender or a particular culture who generally do not respond in the classroom as do peers of the same gender and/or culture. 3. In what ways do classrooms create an unlevel playing field for some students based on gender and/or culture? What actions do we consistently take to understand and address those inequities? 4. In thinking about the intelligence preferences proposed by Howard Gardner, which are favored in school? Which are likely undervalued? Which of the three intelligence preferences proposed by Robert Sternberg are favored in schools? What potential implications do you see for students you teach in any consistent imbalance of school attention to intelligence strengths? 5. What approaches do you currently use to understand students' learning preferences? To use them in your instruction?