Please note: When you complete the Learner Sketch, make sure to download or email yourself a copy of your Learner Sketch report, which will contain suggested learning strategies and hyperlinks to additional information that you will not see unless you access this full report.
The Learner Sketch is currently not accessible on devices that do not read Flash (including iPads and iPhones), but future versions will accommodate these devices. If you are accessing the tool from a computer browser, it may take a few seconds to load.
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I am a change of career teacher…Having raised seven children, at the age of 50ty I returned to college to get my teaching degree. I now teach children with special needs.
What an amazing person. I’m happy to know of your existance! I can’t decide what I’m most impressed with; raising 7 children, getting a degree at age 50, or teaching special education. All impressive feats in and of themselves! Thanks : )
I don’t understand. I thought I’d be guided through an activity to find out about myself as a learner. I clicked on Your Learner Sketch and got to this page.
Enter your name above Alex, and from there you’ll enter the Sketch. And let us know what you think!
I’m having the same isue. I like the blog and all the info! great website but I can’t get to the discover your own learning scetch tool. I entered my name and clickd go and nothing happens?? am I missing an app on my computer?
Hey Ortrun,
Go to http://www.facesoflearning.net/your-learner-sketch/, and as long as you have a device that can read Flash, it should work fine – although it may take a few seconds to load. We’re working now to make sure that all future versions can be accessed on all sorts of devices.
As an education student, the current climate in the US socio-political discourse is alternately terrifying and darkly inspiring. Organizations like this one give me one more bright hope to drive my journey to the classroom.
Hey — thanks Kresta! I hope you’ll share your learning story — and urge your friends, students and colleagues to do the same. Perhaps the Learner Sketch Tool can even become a useful resources to you and your students. Please keep us posted and help spread the word!
What is this about Kim and Sam?
Hey Bernice! Let’s find time to connect and weave 4MAT into this larger effort to help people understand how we learn. Email me anytime — schaltain@gmail.com
What are you guys doing here Kim????? Starting to wonder a bit more each day? Need to hear from you.
Is there any way to get a print out of this to use with students? Great interactive, but I want paper too.
You bet! At the end of the sketch, you’ll find a link that will let you email yourself a PDF of the report. Please keep us posted and let us know how you and your students use it, and to what extent it helps you in your work.
You can also save a pdf of the report to your hard drive and print it from there.
As a mother of a 11-year-old son with learning challenges, I wanted to explore your tool first. I find it visually entertaining and graphically stimulating and it seems to offer a nice broad-stroke overview of strengths. Thanks for all your work…
We’re glad to hear from a parent who is finding this helpful! Make sure to also explore the supporting content on the Faces of Learning website – there are more strategies suggested and additional resources listed that you may find useful.
I realized that I get confused. Very easily. As I i was reading about myself as a learing student, I need to pay attention to what my teachers say, and that I need to lisetn more closely.
Lots of FLASHINESS if that’s what you’re after. You might consider a little substance.
Hi Robert,
We’d love to hear your thoughts about what substance you’d find useful. Our plan is to continue to develop and offer additional tools to support learners and learning. What would you like to see developed?
This is a great tool. Very nicely done. Great work.
Sam – the Faces of Learning stories, your presentation in Kansas City, and website information has filled my mind with new ideas and perspectives about what it means to learn and to be a learner. The immediate effect of this information has been to ground my thinking about teaching/learning in my own learning experiences. Every time I consider a new lesson or teaching strategy, I take myself through the paces of the learning experience. How would I respond as a learner now? How would I have responded as a 15 year old learner? Those are often different answers, but both provide insight to learning and help make me a more effective and more compassionate teacher.
Scot! So glad to hear this, and I think your distinction is vital, and will further clarify how I think about learning. How we are likely to respond as adults, and as 15-year-olds, is exactly the kind of distinction a great teacher makes. Thanks for surfacing this for me.
Sam, Nice to see your name attached to this project. I’m working on my Masters Degree and came across here. I went through the questions for myself and saw the summary profile at the end. I’d like to see some hyperlinks to how to modify the learning environment to best help “such” kind of learner. Giving someone a label is limiting in what can be done, however providing assistance makes the label helpable.
Hey Suzi, Good to see you here as well. There’s a whole report at the end you can download as a PDF, so be sure to check that out. And of course the point of the Learner Sketch is to stop labeling people as particular types of learners, and start providing people with insight into the range of mental constructs that influence learning. We want to help people use those insights to enhance and support learning, which is why suggested strategies are an integral part of both the Learner Sketch report and the “Science of Learning” pages on the FOL website — http://www.facesoflearning.net/questions/how-do-i-learn/science-of-learning/. So please check it out and help us spread the word!
Hey, First of all i think this website is very exciting and it will give me a chance to relate to my self and learn more about myself.
Graduated 1981 with a Special Education Degree and never used it formally (owned two restaurants and “raised” 50 teenagers). Am now a Kindergarten/Pre-K teacher in a small school and came across your program……..Love Love Love it. There was nothing like this when I was in school. I am now tasked with learning and teaching my fellow teachers in our small private school. Thank you
Hooray! And THANK YOU for taking the time to write. Please spread the word!
I love this site and hope to use the inventory with my students at the start of this school year. I envision them e-mailing me their report which I would save to their file on my computer. However, I don’t see a way that the reports would come to me with any sort of differentiation between them. How will I know which is Susie’s and which is David’s? I really don’t want to have to print 11 pages for each student (over half a ream of paper for my class.)
Any suggestions?
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