Learning Styles and Careers

7th Grade Learning Styles Inventory #4

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Pre-Test

1. Where can you find your primary learning style on Naviance?

2. What is your primary learning style?

3. Name two careers that fit your learning style.

Objectives

• Review last week’s lesson• Review primary learning style• Learn top careers by learning style• Identify some careers of interest that fit

your learning style• Update Postsecondary Plan

Review Last Week’s Lesson

• Know your primary learning style• Know three learning techniques that you

will utilize to help you become a better learner

• Understand why those learning techniques will help you be a better learner

• Update Postsecondary Plan

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Careers by Learning Style • Visual-Language– Poet, journalist, writer, teacher, obstetrician – Lawyer, politician, translator

• Visual-Numerical – Visual artists, inventors, architects, doctor– Interior designers, mechanics, engineers

• Auditory-Language– Poet, journalist, writer, teacher– Lawyer, politician, translator

• Auditory-Numerical– Engineer, writer, architect– Accountant, researcher

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Careers by Learning Style • Bodily-kinesthetic– Athlete, carpenter, doctor, police officer, actor, firefighter

• Social-Individual – Psychologist, writer, researcher, teacher, salesperson

• Social-Group– Counselor, businessperson, salesperson, manager

• Expressiveness-Oral– Doctor, teacher, counselor, salesperson, singer, translator

• Expressiveness-Written– Researcher, theorist, philosopher– Writer, journalist, architect

Careers of Interest

• What careers of interest fit your learning style?

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Pick a Partner

• Share your careers of interest with your partner

• Explain how those careers fit with your primary learning style

Group Discussion

• Share one of your careers of interest with the class and why you chose that career

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Update Postsecondary Plan

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Explore Careers by Learning Style

• Investigate careers in Naviance – That match with your strong learning styles

• Update Postsecondary Plan

Post-Test

1. Where can you find your primary learning on Naviance?

2. What is your primary learning style?

3. Name two careers that fit that learning style.

Review

1. Finding your primary learning style on Naviance• Click on the “About Me” tab• Click on the “Learning Style” link• Click on the “View Results” link

2. What is your primary learning style?• Verbal-Language, Visual-Numerical, Auditory-Language• Auditory-Numerical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Social-Group• Social-Individual, Expressiveness-Oral• Expressiveness-Written

3. Name two careers that fit your learning style.

References

• Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/