Introduction

Identifying your learning needs by understanding the learning process and recognizing how you learn best are an intricate part of your success as a college student and lifelong learner. This module will help you to do that and will give you the opportunity to explore and use the support services available at the Academic Skills Center (ASC). The ASC can assist you in assessing, developing and improving your reading, writing, math and study skills (academic skills).

The ASC provides a wide range of personalized services from individual tutoring to small group developmental and enrichment classes and study skills workshops. Some of the resources offered can also be accessed from your home if you own a computer with Internet access.

In this module, you will examine learning style theory, identify your learning style and learning needs and learn about multiple intelligences. You will explore ways in which the ASC can help you to strengthen and develop your skills. By the end of this module, you will have set specific learning goals.

Reading: Learning Styles/Instructional Styles

Multiple Intelligences (.pdf version & .pdf version of chart)

Using the Academic Skills Center (ASC) (.pdf version)

Sharpening Classroom Skills and Note Taking (Part of a Study Skills Workshop PowerPoint presentation by Lillian Hayman and Lindsay Sinclair of NEIT's Academic Skills Center.)

Study Skills Inventory (.pdf format)

Reading and Retaining What You Read (Part of a Study Skills Workshop PowerPoint presentation by Lillian Hayman and Lindsay Sinclair of NEIT's Academic Skills Center.)

Study Strategies for the Three Learning Modes (ASC handout in .rtf format)

Test Taking Strategies (Part of a Study Skills Workshop PowerPoint presentation by Lillian Hayman and Lindsay Sinclair of NEIT's Academic Skills Center.)

Setting Learning Goals (.pdf version)

Skills Grid: Presents a wide variety of tutorials, articles, self-tests, tips, games, and exercises to help you improve your skills and manage your life.

Summary

•We all learn differently and develop preferred ways of processing information.

•Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences identifies eight kinds of “intelligence” that are not measured the way that the traditional notion of intelligence is measured. Those intelligences are: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalist.

•Identifying your learning style and your developed intelligences can help you to select learning strategies that work best for you.

•Capitalize on your strengths and develop your academic skills by setting specific learning goals and using the resources at the ASC.

Additional Resources

Websites:
Please note that website addresses often change. If you are unable to reach the addresses below, use a search engine and search the source of the site or the title of the Web document to find the new site.

Learning Styles
Learning Styles Inventory and Multiple Intelligences Tests (ldpride.net)
The Learning Web
Penn State York: Learning Styles

Multiple Intelligences/Howard Gardner
Multiple Intelligences: Describes multiple intelligences and provides a test to determine how you learn best.
The Seven Types of Intelligence

On-Campus Resources:

Academic Skills Center English Lab, Library, Upper Floor (401) 739-5000, Ext. 3364.

•Activities

• Access the ASC Web page and investigate the reading, writing and study skills links, where you will receive helpful information and materials. There will also be links to information available at other learning centers, including a link to a Learning Styles Inventory. Materials on setting learning goals are found by clicking on the study skills button.

• If you have already attended a Study Skills Workshop the week before classes began, complete the reflective worksheet. Then, go to the module on setting learning goals by clicking on the study skills button on the ASC Web page to get the information that you need to complete the worksheet on setting learning goals. Complete the worksheet on setting learning goals that will help you target specific learning goals. (Applying the Steps for Setting Learning Goals worksheet in .pdf format)

• Based on the results of your tour, complete a reflective worksheet in which you identify your learning needs and the areas of the ASC that will help you to develop the skills that you need to be a successful learner. This worksheet will help you to complete your self-assessment that is required at the end of this course. (Reflective worksheet in .pdf format)

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