Saturday, August 16, 2008

Teaching styles based on left brain vs right brain dominance

This site is dedicated to teachers and how they can understand their own teaching strengths based on their left brain or right brain dominance.

But ... there's a twist ... it also suggests that people can be 'middle brain ' - that they can easily interchange their thinking processes from being left brain to right brain without either side being truly dominant.

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3629#twoSides

It also suggests ways that teachers can structure their curriculum to cater for the differing learning styles of the left brain and right brain students.

Left brain vs right brain attributes and likely occupations

Another website that explores the characteristics stylized by left brain and right brain dominance.

This site goes one step further and lists occupations usually employed by the opposing brain dominant persons.

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/2brains/

Left Brain or Right Brain Learning Styles

This website suggests ways to improve a person's study methods based on whether they were left brain or right brain oriented.

There was a quiz (for teens - which I am most certainly not!) composed of 20 questions which then categorized the quizee as left brain or right brain. It also gave suggestions for understanding and improving their learning style.

Additional support material includes: suggested reading prompts, further learning styles and study tips and a number of related articles.

http://homeworktips.about.com/library/brainquiz/bl_leftrightbrain_quiz.htm


p.s. I completed the quiz and was informed that I could be a contestant on the tv quiz show Jeopardy - now if I only had the money to travel to America to be on the show!

basic left brain vs right brain attributes

Upon searching the internet, I found this quick and simple explanation of left brain vs right brain attributes.

There is an image of a dancing ballerina. The pre-dominance of the viewer's left brain vs right brain depends on how the viewer interprets the dancer's rotation. Give it a go and see if you agree with the attributes listed.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html