Learning StylesLearning Styles

What is learning style?What is learning style?

Your learning style is your Your learning style is your learning preference.learning preference.How do How do you like toyou like tolearn?learn?

Knowing about Your Learning Knowing about Your Learning Style Helps You to:Style Helps You to: Be more productiveBe more productive Increase achievementIncrease achievement Be more creativeBe more creative Improve problem solvingImprove problem solving Make better decisionsMake better decisions Learn more effectivelyLearn more effectively

Learning StyleLearning Style

VisualVisual AuditoryAuditory Kinesthetic/TactileKinesthetic/Tactile

Visual LearnersVisual Learners

Learn through seeing and readingLearn through seeing and reading Prefer written directionsPrefer written directions Often good readersOften good readers

Visual Learners Learn Best Visual Learners Learn Best With:With: picturespictures illustrationsillustrations photosphotos graphsgraphs diagramsdiagrams mapsmaps

Auditory LearnersAuditory Learners

Learn through listening and talkingLearn through listening and talking Remember what they hear better than Remember what they hear better than

what they seewhat they see

Auditory Learners: Auditory Learners:

Prefer to listen to instructionsPrefer to listen to instructions Often like to talk on the phone Often like to talk on the phone

or listen to musicor listen to music Learn best if they can hear and Learn best if they can hear and

see the assignmentsee the assignment

Kinesthetic/Tactile LearnersKinesthetic/Tactile Learners

Learn through doingLearn through doing Remember hands on activitiesRemember hands on activities Use their hands to build, create, plant, Use their hands to build, create, plant,

draw or decoratedraw or decorate

Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners:Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners:

Learn the assignment best by using Learn the assignment best by using physical activityphysical activity

Learning Style Memory ExerciseLearning Style Memory Exercise

20 items will be passed around. Can 20 items will be passed around. Can you remember them? you remember them?

How did you remember the How did you remember the items?items? Did you remember what you could see, Did you remember what you could see,

feel, hear or touch?feel, hear or touch? What is your strongest preference?What is your strongest preference?

Visual Learning TechniquesVisual Learning Techniques

Mental photograph or videoMental photograph or video Flash cardsFlash cards HighlightingHighlighting Draw pictures to rememberDraw pictures to remember Use pictures or symbols in the margin Use pictures or symbols in the margin

to rememberto remember Draw a map or outlineDraw a map or outline

Auditory Learning TechniquesAuditory Learning Techniques

Discuss what you have learned with Discuss what you have learned with othersothers

Participate in study groupsParticipate in study groups Recite aloudRecite aloud Teach others what you have learnedTeach others what you have learned Use flash cards and say the itemsUse flash cards and say the items Use music in the background if it does not Use music in the background if it does not

distract you or use it as a break from studyingdistract you or use it as a break from studying

Kinesthetic/Tactile Learning Kinesthetic/Tactile Learning TechniquesTechniques Read while walking or pacingRead while walking or pacing Study outside when practicalStudy outside when practical Take notes on lecturesTake notes on lectures Highlight or underlineHighlight or underline Write summariesWrite summaries Outline chaptersOutline chapters Think of practical applicationsThink of practical applications