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