This video is about learning styles. There are different students with different learning styles

1. Learning Styles

2. What are Learning Styles?
Information enters our brain three main ways: sight,
hearing and touch, which one we use the most is called
our Learning Style.
• Visual Learners who learn by sight
• Auditory Learners who learn by hearing
• Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) who learn by touch

3. 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
• Satisfied with intense visuals accompanied by lecture
• Benefit from using charts, maps, notes, and flash cards
when studying

4. Visual: Teaching
• Use multiple visual formats: charts, presentation software,
video, notes, worksheets, flip charts, diagrams, etc.
• Write goals/objectives of lesson on board
• Leave white space in handouts for note taking.
• Invite questions to help them stay alert
• Emphasize key points to cue when to takes notes.
• Webbing (mind mapping)

5. Auditory Learners
• Prefer to hear spoken information
• 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

6. Auditory: Teaching
• Traditional lecture; independent work
• Group discussion: feedback, paraphrasing from peers
• Individual conference/interviews with instructor
• Allow “thinking time” to process information
• Use the Socratic method of lecturing by questioning

7. 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
• Role-playing can help them learn and
remember important ideas
• Need opportunities for creative, hands-on learning;
interactions with concrete materials

8. • Experiential learning activities: labs, modules, educational
games
• Simulations (apply concepts in situations)
• Interaction via technology: audio, video, computers
• Demonstrations/ Role play
• Internships/ Practicals/ Field trips
• Give frequent stretch breaks (brain breaks)
• Transfer information from the text to another medium such
as a keyboard, drawing, writing, etc.
Tactile: Teaching

9. Surface Learning
• Studying less than needed to be learned
• Relying primarily on rote learning or memorization
[Cramming]
• Motivation comes from grades
• In a hurry to get it over with.
• Risky – no real learning occurs
• Little possibility of leading to college success

10. Deep Learning
• 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

11. Discovering Your Own Learning Style
• 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?

12. Using Knowledge of Your Learning Style
Knowing your learning style, both your strengths and
your weaknesses, can help you study more effectively.

13. http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-
assessments/learning-styles.shtml
Check your learning style by answering the 20 questions

14. No matter what your Learning Style is but
very important to-
• Be involved in class – participate!
• Link classroom experience to the outside world
• Relate class concepts to your own life.
• Ask questions and offer criticism.
• Stimulate further relevant discussion.
• Don’t get distracted – stay “on-task”
• Keep an open mind: there are many ideas beyond your own.

15. Thank You