Week 2 – Identify Learning Styles

Learning styles is a group of characteristic, attitude, and behavior that define our way of learning. Everyone has a preferred way to learn and there are strategies for each learning style. I would like to introduce three different learning styles and it will be helpful to see what qualities and behaviors may best match your learning style. The three styles are:

Auditory Learner

Visual Learner

Tactile/Kinesthetic Learner

Auditory Learner – An auditory learner learns best by hearing:

Auditory learners do best through listening and speaking – they enjoy talking which allows them to process the information. They remember what they hear more clearly; than what they see or feel.

Strategies for Using Auditory Learning Style:

• Record lectures: today most iPhones and Tablets have the ability to record

• Recite out loud the information you want to remember several times; this is allowing you to hear yourself “think”.

• Make your own tapes of important points you want to remember and listen to it repeatedly.

• Participating is a study group; this will allow for discussions to process information

Visual Learner – A visual learner learns best by seeing:

Visual learners prefer to use images, graphs, maps…they relate most effectively to written information, notes, diagrams and pictures. A visual learner can be easily distracted from a lecture that does not have any visual aids.

Strategies for Using Visual Learning Style:

• Writing and re-writing notes is helpful – create outlines of notes is helpful
• Use multi-colored highlighters because you are likely to remember what you read based on the colors on the paper.

• In textbook – review diagrams, charts, images, for purposes of clarity

Create flashcards Correctly

• • Do not add extensive information on any one card
  • Do not add the question and answer on the same side
  • Remember to ‘shuffle’ cards so that you truly know content and not simply order

• Replace important words with symbols or initials
• Organizes by size, color or other visual clues

Tactile/Kinesthetic – A tactile/Kinesthetic learner learns best by hands-on:

Tactile/Kinesthetic learners are referred to as “hands-on” learners. They use the whole body while learning, and usually have a high level of gross motor-skills controls. Tactile learners learn through doing.

Strategies for Using Tactile/Kinesthetic Learning Style:

• Utilize study flash cards while pacing around the room
• Read information aloud while pacing the room
• Use all your senses: sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing
• Utilize role-playing and simulated activities
• Get up and take quick study breaks
• Overall know that learning styles can and do change over time.

Listed below is a fun summation using movies to demonstrate the types of learning – Enjoy!  (click link below)

Learning Styles