Are You an Objective or Subjective Thinker?
What is your Learning Style?
How we learn, is how we write…
We learn:
10% of what we read
20% of we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we discuss
80% of what we experience
95% of what we teach to others
If you said yes to…
1. Reading the directions before beginning, you are VISUAL. (L)
2. Placing your pieces but changing them after seeing someone
else’s board, you are VISUAL. (R)
3. Waiting until I gave instructions, you are AUDITORY. (L)
4. Asking someone else in the room what we were supposed to
be doing, you are AUDITORY. (R)
5. Assuming you knew the correct placement of the game pieces
before reading or listening to instructions, you are KINESTHETIC.
(L)
6. Immediately getting started without reading directions or
listening to instructions, you are KINESTHETIC. (R)
Answer this…
Does this game
board bother
you?
YES or NO
If yes, think about
WHY.
Answer this…
Should the game
pieces and
colors match?
YES or NO
More Importantly, what does your
game board look like?
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Four Corners with colors matching.
Four Corners with colors not matching.
T- with colors matching.
T- with colors not matching.
No pattern, colors matching.
No pattern, colors not matching.
There is a pattern, can’t you see it?
I threw my pieces on the board with no thought
to how they should be placed.
• I did not move my game pieces onto the board.
What does this tell us?
LEFT BRAIN
• Four Corners with colors matching
• Four Corners with colors not matching
• T- with colors matching.
• T- with colors not matching.
• No pattern, colors matching.
• No pattern, colors not matching.
• There is a pattern, can’t you see it?
• I threw my pieces on the board with no thought to
how they should be placed.
• I did not move my game pieces onto the board.
RIGHT BRAIN
100% Accurate… Let’s see?
First, it is important to understand the
learning styles.
What are the Styles?
Visual learning occurs when ideas,
concepts, data and other information
are associated with images and
techniques.
Auditory learning depends on
hearing and speaking as a main way
of learning. One must be able to hear
what is being said in order to
understand and may have difficulty
with instructions that are written.
They also use their listening and
repeating skills to sort through the
information that is sent to them
Kinesthetic learning takes place by
the student carrying out a physical
activity, rather than listening to a
lecture or watching a demonstration.
Learning Types Quiz
Styles and the Brain
A right brain learner and a left brain learner
drastically differ in the
visual, auditory, and kinesthetic styles.
So it is important to understand which brain you
most commonly use.
Faces
Take the following quizzes.
Record your results.
http://www.webus.com/brain/braindominance.htm
http://similarminds.com
Click “Personality Tests” (on top)
Under Right Left Brain Tests Click “Short Test”
Interpreting Your Results
• School Tasks vs. Real World Tasks
• What type of learner are you?
– 1. Game Pieces Task
– 2. Following Directions
– 3. Quiz
• Are you Left or Right Brained?
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1. Game Pieces Task
2. Color Task
3. Woman/Man Task
4. Similar Minds Percentage
How It Relates
• People who are more right brained tend to be
more subjective.
• People who are more left brained tend to be
more objective.
Partner Up…
• It’s not a battle because descriptive writing
takes both.
• Those who are objective can fully describe the
object to it’s exact specifications.
• Those who are subjective can apply meaning
to the object giving the description a purpose.
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Left brain dominant individuals are more orderly,
literal, articulate, and to the point. They are good at
understanding directions and anything that is explicit
and logical. They can have trouble comprehending
emotions and abstract concepts, they can feel lost
when things are not clear, doubting anything that is not
stated and proven.
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Right brain dominant individuals are more visual and
intuitive. They are better at summarizing multiple
points, picking up on what's not said, visualizing things,
and making things up. They can lack attention to detail,
directness, organization, and the ability to explain their
ideas verbally, leaving them unable to communicate
effectively.
Left Hemisphere Style
Right Hemisphere Style
Rational
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Responds to verbal instructions
Intuitive
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Responds to demonstrated instructions
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Problem solves by logically and sequentially
looking at the parts of things
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Problem solves with hunches, looking for
patterns and configurations
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Looks at differences
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Looks at similarities
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Is planned and structured
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Is fluid and spontaneous
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Prefers established, certain information
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Prefers elusive, uncertain information
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Prefers talking and writing
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Prefers drawing and manipulating objects
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Prefers multiple choice tests
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Prefers open ended questions
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Controls feelings
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Free with feelings
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Prefers ranked authority structures
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Prefers collegial authority structures
Sequential
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Is a splitter: distinction important
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Is logical, sees cause and effect
Draws on previously accumulated, organized
information
Simultaneous
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Is a lumper: connectedness important
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Is analogic, sees correspondences, resemblances
Draws on unbounded qualitative patterns that are not
organized into sequences, but that cluster around
images
 Right
brained people are more fun.
 Right brained people can draw.
 Left brained people love math.
 Left brained people cannot be creative.
 The personality and learning style/teaching
style are always the same.
 If you are one way, you cannot learn to be
another.
 Right
Brain or ‘art’: ‘art’ comes from the
latin word ‘artem‘ or ‘ars‘ meaning: skill as
a result of learning or practice
 Left
Brain or ‘technical’: ‘technical’ comes
from the greek word ‘tekhnikos‘ meaning:
skilled in a particular art or subject
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Right
 80% Left
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Right
 20% Left
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I can only dance to counts.
I am extremely obsessive compulsive (see my blinds).
I am grounded in writing, and I like algebra.
I like organized creativity.
I follow the rules.
I think I’m always right, and let’s face it, I usually am
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I don’t like crying or showing negative emotions.
I like to be in charge.
I can’t see pictures in my head.
I am a quick talker.
I like symmetrical rooms, designs, and faces … for
instance Brad Pitt and Channing Tatum.
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am not authoritarian.
 I don’t assign seats.
 My desk is messy.
 I speed.
 I play the piano.
 My second draft is always right brained:
creative, visually descriptive.
 It takes a lot to create a bond, but once you
do, you gain access to my soft side.
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I am a “hugger.”
I deal with emotion openly.
I can easily visualize images.
I can draw.
I can dance without music.
I am dangerously impulsive.
I am spatially oriented.
I like geometry.
I break the rules.
I am quick thinking and can instantly respond...
Although sometimes, it’s pretty blunt and regretful.
I can see the final product before even starting the
first step.
I speak slowly.
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assign seats and set parameters in my
classroom.
 My outfit has to flow; even my pen has to
match .
 I can lead.
 I keep a neat beard.
 I am OCD because I like patterns.
 I like symmetry.
 I set precedents and am afraid of change.
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Miss C. is a left brained individual who runs a right
brain classroom.
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Why? I don’t want to think for you, I will tend to overtalk if I don’t, and I want you to discover learning rather
than regurgitate it.
So what makes me mad? Late assignments, people who
don’t use the time I give them, lack of consultation and
effort, and when people can’t make an argument.
Mr. Testa is a right brained individual who runs a left
brain classroom.
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Why? I need order to create disorder, I want people to
hear the instructions first; without this type of
classroom, you might miss something, I want you to
think, but only after you have all the facts.
So what makes me mad? When people don’t follow
directions, when you don’t take the time to investigate
the answer yourself before coming to me, and when you
judge what you don’t know.
YOU!!!
Based on your brain type, draw the
scene which is indicated for you.
Left Brain
Draw Happiness
Right Brain
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Draw a picture of two
children, a boy and a girl.
The boy should be wearing
a red shirt and blue pants.
The girl should be wearing
a purple shirt and blue
pants. Both should have
on shoes the color of their
shirts.
The girl should be holding
a yellow flower.
The boy should be holding
a green stem.
The kids should be facing
each other.
Left Brain
Draw Anger
Right Brain
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Draw a sun. It should
have eight rays,
situated at equal
diameters around the
circular portion.
The sun should be
yellow and the rays
should be orange.
The sun should overlook
a green field with a
single tree. The tree
should have four
branches and orange
leaves.
Painting Pictures with Words
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Descriptive writing describes an object, place, or
person in a way that creates a vivid impression in the
reader's mind, enabling the reader to visualize what
is being described, and to feel that he/she is very
much part of the writer's experience.
Elaborate use of sensory details (often those that
others might overlook) that enrich or define the
central impression
Details which go beyond the general, e.g., The house
was big and nice
Details which enable the reader to picture or relive
what the writer is telling
A successful description uses vivid vocabulary,
including colorful adjectives and figurative language.
 You
still have a purpose
 Include plenty of details
 Use figurative language, if appropriate
 Organize details
 Show, not tell
 Use precise language
 Avoid clichés
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Don’t mistake explanation for description:
Explanation is a kind of telling that interjects background material
that does not contain sensory details or contribute to the overall
effect–a character's motives or history
Telling:
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Showing:
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The empty room smelled stale and was devoid of furniture or floor
covering; the single window lacked curtains or blinds of any kind.
The apartment smelled of old cooking odors, cabbage, and mildew; our
sneakers squeaked sharply against the scuffed wood floors, which
reflected a haze of dusty sunlight from the one cobwebbed, gritty
window.
Explanation
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The tenants had moved out a week earlier because the house was being
sold to a developer. No one had bothered to dust or clean because they
assumed the apartment was going to be knocked down and replaced
with single-family homes like those built just a block away.
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should have one clear central impression.
It is usually presented in the thesis
statement.
 You may adopt to have either an objective or
subjective tone in your description.
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The objective description merely describes the
object
The subjective also includes the writer's attitude
and feelings towards it.
Everlasting Childhood
Though uncombed, his biscuit colored shag
and expressionless face have been molded into
man’s best friend. It is also the way in which his torso
curves below my neck to form the perfect resting spot.
Once he was magnificent with his defining black nose
and velvety fleece. But his resplendence matured with
old age and machine washes. A fixture upon my bed, he
is my porthole to the past when textures held
prominent value and what made one safe was the
worth laid in stuffed things.