It is important to remember that there is no right or wrong learning style. Each style has its advantages and disadvantages. Knowing your learning style is not meant to limit you, but to expand you – by helping you to work, learn and live more efficiently.

There are many benefits for being aware of the Intrapersonal area in our lives, and in the lives of our children. Some of these are: Increase in self confidence, which leads to forming friendships easier, working with people more effectively and taking more responsibility.

Generally an increase in intrapersonal skills will increase productivity as you maximize working conditions and environments to work with you not against you. As you learn to understand yourself you begin to understand others, which give you more tools to handle conflicts.

Remember conflict always involves two people. People with high Intrapersonal skills initiate in new situations more quickly and with more ease. Such people are more resilient against negative behavior that is aimed at them. Research shows that Intrapersonal skills are connected to academic achievements.

Understanding the individual you are engaging before you begin communicating is a significant advantage. How many times have you asked someone a question and been the recipient of a harsh emotional response? At work and in our personal lives, there are often many underlying variables just waiting to hinder our ability to communicate. Fortunately, there are as many variables which can benefit us when engaging in an interpersonal experience.

Using good interpersonal skills is often the difference between effectively communicating and building barriers to the communication process. Understanding the individual and creating an environment conducive to effective communication is an efficient means to developing valuable relationships. Once the individual’s condition is understood, opportunities to communicate your message are apparent. Only then can you maximize the process with an individual interpersonal experience.

Logical reasoning is the ability to “foresee” implications beyond decisions. Honing this skill promotes active learning, whereby the child would be encouraged to ask good questions that could aid his/her own learning. It is also a skill that helps the child get more engaged in his/her own learning process and promotes making the correct and right decisions (based on reasoning logically).

One key academic area that is related to logical reasoning is Math problem solving. Answering these problems would require the child to evaluate the outcomes and implications before making a decision.

Another key area would be reading comprehension. Answering the questions would require the ability to understand the text beyond its direct meaning. For example, “Pick out a phrase from paragraph two that shows King Wang was really sincere about helping his people”. Such question requires the child to evaluate the paragraph and logically pick out the sentence that best describes “sincerity”.

Besides reaping academic benefits, improving your child’s logical reasoning skills could also help your child be better at self-regulation. That is, being better able to handle his/her emotions and behaviours. For example, instead of throwing tantrums, your child would evaluate and think “What would happen if I throw tantrums?” “What is a more effective way of getting my point across?”

Improving this skill also helps the child be a rational thinker instead of being impulsive. With these skills, he/she would be more adept to solving complex problem solving situations calmly, which also assist the decision making process.

Students in science and engineering can benefit from developing spatial and visual abilities.
For example, we depend on students¹ abilities to read and comprehend visual material.

The diagrams, graphs, and scientific illustrations in Scientific American magazine, any textbook, or professional journal article testify to our widespread dependence on visual representations to communicate complex concepts in science, mathematics, and engineering.

Amazingly, nowhere in the college curriculum do students in these disciplines learn to make visual representations to think and communicate. This represents a significant omission in the education of young scientists, mathematicians, and engineers and an opportunity for enhancing comprehension and creative ability.

Nearly all fine motor activities, including cutting and writing, require a dominant hand (being left-handed or right-handed) and a non-dominant hand. Hand dominance can be seen as early as age three or four, although it may not be firmly established until a child reaches age six or seven.

Once a child becomes comfortable with one hand as the dominant hand, the remaining hand becomes the non-dominant hand by default. While the dominant hand performs tasks such as using a pencil or scissors, the non-dominant hand acts as the “stabilizer.” For example, one hand holds the scissors when cutting while the other hand moves the paper.

Gross motor skills involve movement of the large muscles in arms, legs, and torso. Gross motor activities include walking, running, skipping, jumping, throwing, climbing and many others. It may be easiest to think of “gross motor” skills as skills most utilized in a gym class or on a playground.

Gross motor skills also include small movements of the large muscle groups. There are always a few children in every preschool or kindergarten classroom who suddenly fall out of their chair during a lesson. In each case, the child was probably shifting his weight, but inadvertently moved his leg, hip or torso muscles too much, causing him to fall out of his chair.

Preschool and kindergarten children need strong gross motor skills so they can engage in age-appropriate physical activities (such as running, climbing, and throwing) and so they can participate in classroom activities that require body control (such as walking in a crowded room or sitting still during a lesson).

Observation skills are something that everyone has, but it doesn’t mean that everyone has mastered the use of their observation skills. Many people require a little bit of training to improve their observations skills.

Businesses covet people with excellent observations skills – people with excellent observations skills improve the functionality of the office and can make the work environment a place that is more proficient and ethical.

We are all aware of the benefits that come from manifesting genuine appreciation and gratitude but sometimes that’s easier said than done. In the face of a sinking economy, do you find it difficult to focus on gratitude? When it feels like your very way of life is being threatened, can you still have an attitude of gratitude? Yes, sometimes finding the good in a situation can seem like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Yet, the benefits of being in a state of genuine gratitude in spite of what’s going on around us are worth investigating. This is where focus comes into the picture. We can actually train ourselves to search for, discover, and focus on legitimate reasons for gratitude.

The most basic reason for joining a club or team is that it gives you something better to do than staring at the wall, wandering the hall, or napping all afternoon.

People who are involved and engaged are less likely to become addicted to bad habits, like smoking or drinking.