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The VAK model“The VAK model is the way in which each learner begins to concentrate on, process
and retain new and difficult information”. – Rita Dunn
Introduction
Learning Styles
Visual Learners
Auditory Learners
Kinaesthetic Learners
Conclusion
Outline
The visual-auditory-kinaesthetic (VAK) model is a method created by Fleming which help us to know our dominant or preferred learning style
The model is based on our senses and the three primary modalities used to represent information, with the idea being that one will usually dominate
Children and everybody in general tend to learn through 3 different kinds of learning styles
Introduction: What VAK model is?
VAK means:
Visual Style
Auditory Style
Kinaesthetic Style
Learning Syles
You do it!
You hear it!
You see it!
Visual learners tend to:
Learn through seeing
Think in pictures and need to create vivid mental images to retain information
Enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, videos, and movies
Have visual skills which are demonstrated in puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, sketching, painting, fixing, designing practical objects…
Learning Styles: Visual learners
Encourage visual learners to: Use graphics to
reinforce learning
Colour code to organise notes and possessions
Use colour to highlight important points in text
Take notes
Illustrate ideas as a picture before writing them down
Ask for written directions
Use flow charts and diagrams for note taking
Visualise spelling of words or facts to be memorised
What encourage visual learners?
Auditory learners tend to:
Learn through listening
Have highly developed auditory skills and are generally good at speaking and presenting
Think in words rather than pictures
Learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through and listening to what others have to say
Have auditory skills demonstrated in listening, writing, explaining, using humour, remembering information, arguing their point of view…
Learning Styles: Auditory Learners
Encourage auditory learners to:
Read aloud
Recite information to learn
Use tunes or rhymes as mnemonic devices
Read aloud and tape test questions or directions
Use verbal analogies and storytelling to demonstrate their point
What encourage auditory learners?
I’ve to argue that!
Hello…
Kinaesthetic learners tend to:
Learn through moving, doing and touching
Express themselves through movement
Have good sense of balance and eye-hand coordination
Remember and process information through interacting with the space around them
Find it hard to sit still for long periods and may become distracted by their need for activity and exploration
Have skills demonstrated in physical coordination, athletic ability, hands on experimentation, using body language, acting, using their hands to create or build, dancing,
Learning Styles: Kinaesthetic Learners
Encourage kinaesthetic learners to:
Make models or role play to physically experience learning
Skim through reading material before reading it in detail
Annotate text and write questions while reading
Translate information into diagrams or other visual study tools
Recite a list of items by counting on fingers
Memorise or drill while moving e.g. when walking
Listen to music while studying
What encourage kinestethic learners?
Theatre
The validity of the VAK model as well as other learning style theories has been questioned and criticized extensively
Despite the criticism and lack of empirical support, the VAK model remains fairly popular among both students and educators
Although we have a sense more developed than other we can make use of a mixture of different learning styles
CONCLUSION
“Develop your senses... realise that everything connects to everything
else”.- Leonardo Davinci
The End
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