This document discusses different learning styles - visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Visual learners, who make up 65% of the population, learn best when they can see information through pictures, diagrams, or displays. They benefit from supplemental materials like handouts. Characteristics of visual learners include thinking in pictures and preferring visual presentations over oral ones. The document provides tips for visual learners to help themselves, such as finding diagrams, creating concept maps, and using highlighting.

1. Iris Palomares Margarit
Ivet Sentañes Gabarroca
Mònica Ros Ortega

2. “Style”
 The term “style” refers to each person who learns in a
different way, using different strategies even though
they have the same motivations as the other learning
styles.

3. LEARNING STYLES
 VISUAL learners make
up approximately 65
percent of the
population.
 AUDITORY learners
represent only 30
percent of the
population.
 KINESTHETIC
learners represent the
remaining 5 percent of
the population

4. VISUAL LEARNERS
 “AN IMAGE IS BETTER THAN
THOUSAND WORDS! “

5. Characteristics
 Visual learners often think in:
• Pictures
• Diagrams
• Displays
• Handouts
• Flip-charts

6. Visual Students
 They learn much better when they read or seen the
information.
 For an instance: In a conference they have preference
to read the photocopies or other kind of guide before
an oral explanation.

7. Advantages and disadvantages
Advantatges Disadvantatges
Supplement verbal instructions Information presented in the form
with an additional handout or of a lecture or through verbal
diagram discussion.
Demonstrations that show the Excessive background noise can
learner how to complete a required quickly distract.
task or assignment.
Incorporate colorful and tangible An assigned task without specific
learning activities that include the instructions can be stressful and
use of flashcards, puzzles or posters. confusing.

8. Quotidian actions:
• I try to visualize the word in my mind.
• It’s difficult to follow a long conversation.
• I usually use words like: look, imagine, etc.
• I prefer visual than oral presentations. It is easier to
understand with images, diagrams, time lines, etc.
• I like reading descriptive paragraphs because I can
imagine the action.

9. How can visual learners help
themselves?
 Try to find diagrams, schematics, photographs or any
other visual representation.
 Ask to your lecture, consult reference books, and see
if any CD-ROM or video of the course material are
available.
 Prepare a concept map by listing key points, enclosing
them in boxes or circles, and drawing lines with arrows
between concepts to show connections.
 Color your notes with a highlighter.

10. PERSONAL OPINION
Do this power point, search information and
select the most important points has become a
nice way to know what kind of learners we are and
what can do to improve our skills while we are
studying.