1. Learning Styles

2. What is learning style?

3. Your learning style is your learning preference
Your learning style is your learning preference. How do you like to learn?

4. Knowing about Your Learning Style Helps You to:
Be more productive
Increase achievement
Be more creative
Improve problem solving
Make better decisions
Learn more effectively

5. Learning Style
Visual
Auditory
Kinesthetic/Tactile

6. Visual Learners Learn through seeing and reading
Prefer written directions
Often good readers

7. Visual Learners Learn Best With:
pictures
illustrations
photos
graphs
diagrams
maps

8. Auditory Learners Learn through listening and talking
Remember what they hear better than what they see

9. Auditory Learners: Prefer to listen to instructions
Often like to talk on the phone or listen to music
Learn best if they can hear and see the assignment

10. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners
Learn through doing
Remember hands on activities
Use their hands to build, create, plant, draw or decorate

11. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners:
Learn the assignment best by using physical activity

12. Learning Style Memory Exercise
20 items will be passed around. Can you remember them?

13. How did you remember the items?
Did you remember what you could see, feel, hear or touch?
What is your strongest preference?

14. Visual Learning Techniques
Mental photograph or video
Flash cards
Highlighting
Draw pictures to remember
Use pictures or symbols in the margin to remember
Draw a map or outline

15. Auditory Learning Techniques
Discuss what you have learned with others
Participate in study groups
Recite aloud
Teach others what you have learned
Use flash cards and say the items
Use music in the background if it does not distract you or use it as a break from studying

16. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learning Techniques
Read while walking or pacing
Study outside when practical
Take notes on lectures
Highlight or underline
Write summaries
Outline chapters
Think of practical applications