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 * After going through and determining your learning style, please discuss the validity/accuracy of this inventory. Do you feel it is valuable (why/why not)? What do you suppose learning style inventories could provide in terms of how you approach teaching. How might you take into account the learning styles of your students? And, how do you suppose your "teaching style" might be related to your "learning style".**
 * Posted Thursday, 5:29 pm **

- This being one of the many learning style inventories I have taken, I am not surprised to find out that I am once again a kinesthetic learner; according to the description, this means that I prefer to do, rather than see or hear when learning. While it is true that I learn well when doing, I wouldn't go as far to say that I don't learn well when seeing or listening; I think I do best when there is a multi-modal approach; I also think that I learn some subjects better when doing, some better when listening, and some better when watching; it really just depends.

While these inventories may be informative, accurate, and interesting, I always wonder how valuable they really are. Do teachers really alter their teaching styles after they see their students results of a learning inventory? Probably not, at least my teachers never did. I don't think there really needs to be an inventory to figure out how students learn best; it is well known that everybody learns a little differently, and for that reason teachers should aim to use multi-modal teaching strategies in their classrooms.