This document discusses learning styles and how understanding your own learning style can help you learn more effectively. There are three main learning styles: visual, which involves seeing and reading; auditory, which involves listening and talking; and kinesthetic/tactile, which involves hands-on activities. The document provides examples of how each type prefers to learn and techniques to help with learning for each style, such as using pictures for visual learners or discussing material aloud for auditory learners. Understanding your dominant learning style can improve productivity, achievement, problem solving and learning overall.

1. Learning Styles

2. What is learning style?

3. 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