The first step to knowing how to teach your students best, is knowing how they learn best. You can complete several inventories for items such as:
Personality Colour (gold, green, blue, orange), Learning Style (auditory, visual, tactile), Myers Briggs, etc as well as learning preferences and interests and hobbies.
Help your students learn about themselves! This can also help them drive their own instruction and make good deicisions about their own learning.
Learner Sketch Tool. The Learner Sketch Tool (LST) is an online tool …
Learner Sketch Tool. The Learner Sketch Tool (LST) is an online tool designed to provide learners with a personalized profile and strategies to improve learning outcomes, and educators with information and strategies for strengths-based conversations that support every learner's growth and success.
PLEASE ALSO SEE THE LEARNER PROFILE COLLECTION TO ASSIST YOU IN BUILDING FULL LEARNER PROFILES FOR YOUR STUDENTS. Click "Discover" then "Collections" to find this collection. Consider including learning styles, personality types, strengths, prefernces, etc.
This document will provide students with their strengths and suggest ways to …
This document will provide students with their strengths and suggest ways to learn and consolidate their learning based on their multiple intelligences.
It is important to know your learners, and for learner's to know …
It is important to know your learners, and for learner's to know themselves if they are to learn successfully. Knowing how you learn best (with your eyes, ears or hands) will greatly help students do their best learning!
Having a variety of inventories makes it easier to revisit this each year without having to do the same inventory over and over.
This includes online and printable inventories as well as tips for studying and a student-led discussion activity are included.
All students learn differently. It is important to understand the thought processes …
All students learn differently. It is important to understand the thought processes of all students. I wanted to use the class blog to demonstrate my students’ thinking and increase their engagement. I worked with all the different areas of learning styles presented at this PD day. I created different assignments and I had the students put their work on our class blog.
It is important to know your learners, and for learner's to know …
It is important to know your learners, and for learner's to know themselves if they are to learn successfully. Knowing what your multiple intelligences are can greatly help students do their best learning!
Having a variety of inventories makes it easier to revisit this each year without having to do the same inventory over and over.
This includes online and printable inventories, and some tips for using MI in the classroom.
This resource includes getting started guides for teachers, students and counsellors.Updated and …
This resource includes getting started guides for teachers, students and counsellors.Updated and new resources are included for implementation, portfolios, activities, feedback, Volunteerism 30, take our kids to work day, Financial Literacy 10 and more.
A wealth of online personality tests for free. These may be some …
A wealth of online personality tests for free. These may be some of the tests you wish to consider doing with older students as part of their learner profiles. Consider doing the Jungian Scales/Myers Briggs. The brain dominance, temperament quiz and memory test are also very interesting.
Use these posters in your classroom. Add student names to their learning …
Use these posters in your classroom. Add student names to their learning style. This way people can be aware of how others learn best and use that when doing group work.
This is a template younger students can learn to share their learning …
This is a template younger students can learn to share their learning style, MI, group style etc after completing their inventories. This can be edited to suit your needs!
This website has been used to develop a number of open-source psychological …
This website has been used to develop a number of open-source psychological tests. All are availible under a creative commons licence. This is the full list of such tests, not all have been finalized:
Open Extended Jungian Type Scales (documentation) * Myers Briggs Open Hemispheric Brain Dominance Scale (documentation) Open Enneagram of Personality Scales Exposure Based Face Memory Test
For other open source measures, try the International Personality Item Pool.
These are some options you may want to consider for student learner profiles for older students - especially the Jung/Myers Briggs and Enneagram scales.
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