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Understanding Learning Styles Explained

The document discusses different learning styles including visual, auditory, and tactile learners. Visual learners learn best through pictures and diagrams, auditory learners through listening, and tactile learners through touch and manipulation. Additionally, learners can be extroverted and prefer group work or introverted and prefer individual tasks. They can also be sensing learners who focus on facts or intuitive learners who prefer concepts. Judging learners like structure while perceiving learners consider multiple perspectives. The document emphasizes understanding one's own learning style to study more effectively and build strengths across different styles through flexibility.

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Understanding Learning Styles Explained

The document discusses different learning styles including visual, auditory, and tactile learners. Visual learners learn best through pictures and diagrams, auditory learners through listening, and tactile learners through touch and manipulation. Additionally, learners can be extroverted and prefer group work or introverted and prefer individual tasks. They can also be sensing learners who focus on facts or intuitive learners who prefer concepts. Judging learners like structure while perceiving learners consider multiple perspectives. The document emphasizes understanding one's own learning style to study more effectively and build strengths across different styles through flexibility.

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What are Learning Styles?

Information enters your brain three


main ways: sight, hearing and
touch, which one you use the most
is called your Learning Style

Visual Learners learn by sight


Auditory Learners learn by hearing
Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) learn by
touch

Visual Learners
Prefer to see information such as pictures,
diagrams, cartoons, demonstrations
Picture words and concepts they hear as
images
Easily distracted in lecture with no visual
aids
Overwhelmed with intense visuals
accompanied by lecture
Benefit from using charts, maps, notes,
and flash cards when studying

Auditory Learners

Prefer to hear information spoken


Can absorb a lecture with little effort
May not need careful notes to learn.
Often avoid eye contact in order to
concentrate
May read aloud to themselves
Like background music when they study

Tactile or Kinesthetic Learners


Prefer touch as their primary mode for taking
in information
In traditional lecture situations, they should
write out important facts
Create study sheets connected to vivid
examples
Okay, I
get it
Role-playing can help them learn and
now.
remember important ideas
May benefit by using manipulatives

Extraversion/Introversion
(Social Orientation)
Extroverts
Like talking with others and taking
action.
Prefer active learning and group projects.

Introverts
Prefer to have others do the talking.
Prefer lectures and structured tasks.

Sensing/Intuiting
(Information Processing)
Sensors
Are most at home with facts and examples.
Are drawn to realistic and practical
applications.
Prefer memorizable facts, and concrete
questions.
Intuiters

Prefer concepts and theories which can give


greater play to imagination and inspiration.
Prefer interpretation and imagination.

Judging/Perceiving
(Achieving Goals)

My mind is
made up!
Dont confuse
me with facts.

Judgers
Prefer clearly defined strategies
to achieve goals.
May jump to closure too quickly.
Prefer orderliness, structure, and
deadlines.

Perceivers

Lets think this through

Like to consider all sides to a


problem and may be at some risk
for not completing their work.
Prefer spontaneity and flexibility.

Surface Learning
Studying the minimum of what needs
to be learned
Relying primarily on rote
memorization, often exercised at the
last minute [Cramming]
Motivation comes from grades
In a hurry to get it over with.
no real learning occurs
Much less likely to lead to college
success

Deep Learning

Fascinating!
I need to
know more

Goal is to truly understand course


material
Involves actively constructing
learning experiences
Leads to better memory retention
Deep learners enjoy the process of
learning for its own sake
Deep learners use more thinking skills

Discovering Your
Own Learning Style
Take a Learning Styles test.
Think about your favorite classes in high school or
college so far. What do they have in common? Did
you like
mastering facts?
discussion? or working on your own?
lecture? or pairing or grouping?
hands-on activities?
Do some self-analysis (called metacognition).
How do you think you learn?

Using Knowledge of Your Learning


Style

Knowing your learning style, both your strengths and


your weaknesses, can help you study more effectively.

Build Strengths across the


Learning Styles
Make the best use of your learning style.
Work harder in skills that dont come
easily to you.
Be flexible and adaptable, try new things
and new ways.
Keep growing! Dont be easily satisfied!

Strategies:

Present rules and instructions in an


informational rather than controlling
manner
Give students opportunities to make
choices (individually or as a group)
Evaluate students performance in a
non-controlling manner
Give incentives to the students for
responding in the class.
Example: Give a chocolate or simply
make the class clap for child.

Positive learning
Everydayspare45minutesingeneral
interaction
Encouragethestudentstoaskquestions.
PlaceaQuestionBoxintheclassfor
studentswhoareshyoforalinteraction

Feedback
Feedback from students is essential to
know their views.
Ask the students if the understood the
lesson
Hold surprise talks regarding the lesson
Take written feedback

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