learning styles

1. What is
learning
style?

2. Introduction:
Many people recognize that each person
prefers different learning styles and
teckniques ,learning styles group common
ways that people learn,
Every one has a mix of learning styles,some
people MAY FIND THAT THEY HAVE
DOMINANT STYLE OF LEARNING,with far
less use of the other Styles,

3. Others may find they use different styles ,in
different circumstances ,
There is no right mix,nor are your style fixed,
You can develop your ability in less dominant
styles ,as well further develop styles that you
already use well,
Using multiple learning styles and multiple
intelligence ,for a learning is a relatively new
approach:this approach is one that educators
have only recently started to recognized ,

4. • So what is learning style?
• Learning can be defined by Burns (1995, p. 99)
as:
“a relatively permanent change in
behavior,including both observable activity and
internal processes such as thinking, attitudes
and emotions”. Students have undertaken
learning
process by means of various processes such as
writing etc. in both formal as well as informal
Ways,

5. Different dimensions of
learning styles:
• Dr,Eric Lauren assures that the 12
ways of learning is based on
extensive literature and it consider
,information processing model out
of school psychology,

6. • A message for all learners:
• Each learner processes reality in his /her own
unique ways,
• If you educate others about your best ways of
learning they will understand you better,
• There are no right or wrong ways
to learn ,your way is the best ,right for
you ,

7. • Learning about and accomadating all 12
ways of learning will make you more
patient and understanding person,
• What are those learning styles ?

8. • Visual learners:
• Visual learners acquire information
observation;they like to see visual stimuli,

9. We distinguish two types of visual learners :
Some have a strong mind s eye,and can visualize
readings,ideas and images,
Others may not have such ability,but their
recognition of visual content is exellent,
For many visual learners ,the following ADAGE has
a great significance*a picture is worth a
thousand words*
As example :ALBERT EINSTEIN was a visual learner
,,,he once said *if i can picture it i can
understand it*

10. • Example of spanish;
• The word ojomeans eyes,

11. •Auditory learners :
• Auditory learners
understand the information
through listening,
• Auditory learners gather
knowledge from lecture, talk
radio and speeches,

12. • Some auditory learners just need to listen in class
,Taking notes can distract them from understanding
and remembring the content ,

13. •Tactile learners:
• They like to touch objects and manipulate
things,
• Some tactile learners like
what is called
*hand gum* they can
concentrate better when
they are manipulating
something tactile in their
hand such as squishy ball,

14. • *hand gum*,they can concentrate better
when they are manipulating something
tactile in their hand such as squishy ball,
• The other type of tactile learners find
that the fine motors of writting down
content helps them to encode the lesson,
• Tactile learners like to touch things they
are learning about and some love,,,

15. stress toys

16. • kinesthetic learners
Kinesthetic learners need
to move their bodies,
Movements help them to
attend,
• Telling a kinesthetic
learner to sit stiil can
turn off their brains,
because
movements stimulate
cognition,

17. • If a student is very active and moves
arround a lot,it doesn t mean that they are
kinesthetic learners ,Movements
must aid in the learning process not distract the
learner,
• Example;
• Some schools now are giving the students the
option to stand at their desk,some desk even
provide a foot swing for their kinesthetic learners,

19. •Sequential learners:
• Sequential learners like information presented
in a specific order or sequence,
• They often like to organize their files
alphabetically,
• Breaking large asseignments into manageable
steps can be very helpful for the sequential
learner,

20. •Simultaneous learners:
• Need to relate and connect the information ,
• Creating mind maps or diagrams can help
simultaneous learners to conceptualize*the big
picture*or *the main ideas*
• Simultaneous learners also like to orgnize materials
by comonalities or headings,

21. •Reflective learners :
• Reflective learners need
to think about and
analyse materials,
• They spend a lot
of time planning and
reprocessing information,
• When a reflective learner says that they need
to think about it,they really need to think
about,

22. •Verbal learners;
• Verbal learners like to think
aloud and talk about
academic materials to
themselves and to others,
• Some verbal learners do not really know what
they are thinking until they have spoken,
• Sharing words can help to sort out and
orgnize ideas ,

23. •Interactive learners:
• Interactive learner enjoys working with
peers,parents and teachers,
• The interactive learner often enjoys the
company of others when acqiring knowledge
and completing homeworks,

24. • Indirect experience learners;
• The indirect experience learners enjoys
vicarious experiences and demonstrations,
They acquire kno wledge
from shared
EXPERIENCES of others,

25. • Direct experience learners:
• Direct experience learners should encounter
educational topics in the real world,
• Travelling and daytrips to educational places
can help these learners conceptualize and
understand academic lessons,
• On the job training and apprenticeships are
exellent ways for direct experience

26. • Learners to acquire information,
• *science classes often employ
direct experience s when students
conduct laboratory experiments,

27. •Rythmic melodic learners:
• The rythmic melodic learners thinks in rythm or
patterns,
• They often respond to melodies and thus can assist
them when memorizing materials,
• They may walk to a beat and their memory can be
assisted when learning to a beat,
• Some of these learners find that music can block
distraction because it serves as *white noise*

28. •Why learning styles ?
• Great teachers often have flexible ways of
learning and they are confortable
accomadating each student s unique profile,
• Teachers don t have to teach 12 different ways
to reach all their students ,some instructions
such as skits or hand on activities are
multisensory and can reach different types
learners,

29. • It s always best for teachers to offer
asseignements options ,to optimize
learning and empower students allow
them to select from a number of choices
that can illustrate mastery of the
accademic content,

30. •Anatomy/
• Research shows us that each learning style
uses different parts of the brain. By involving
more of the brain during learning, we
remember more of what we learn.
Researchers using brain-imagining
technologies have been able to find out the
key areas of the brain responsible for each
learning style.

31. • Visual: The occipital lobes at the back of the
brain manage the visual sense. Both the
occipital and parietal lobes manage spatial
orientation.
• Aural: The temporal lobes handle Aurel
content. The right temporal lobe is especially
important for music.
• Verbal: The temporal and frontal lobes,
especially two specialized areas called
Broca�s and Wernicke�s areas (in the left
hemisphere of these two lobes).

32. • Physical: The cerebellum and the motor cortex (at
the back of the frontal lobe) handle much of our
physical movement.
• Logical: The parietal lobes, especially the left side,
drive our logical thinking.
• Social: The frontal and temporal lobes handle much
of our social activities. The limbic system (not
shown apart from the hippocampus) also influences
both the social and solitary styles. The limbic
system has a lot to do with emotions, moods and
aggression.

33. •Solitary: The frontal and
parietal lobes, and the
limbic system, are also
active with this style.

34. • Influence of Emotional Intelligence
on Learning Styles

35. • Emtional intelligence:
• As stated by Goleman; * emotional
intelligence is the capacity of individual to
recognize as well as control the
emotional of our own feelings and also
in others. He also argued that the
emotional intelligence is the most
powerful implements than Cognitive
Intelligence to enhance one’s quality of
life*.

36. • Likewise, Mayer and Salovey (pp.1) define EI as
“the ability to monitor one’s own and others’
feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them
and to use this information to guide one’s thinking
and actions”.

37. • At present ,the educational system is
eventually influenced by a quick
,remarkable tecknological development,
resulting to create a need for a person:
to be more skilful for searching, analyzing
and applying the in the field, In order to
implement this task, it is essential for
person to have cognitive skills along with
excitement intelligence and social skills
towards education (Sharifi, 2007).

38. • Emmerling & Goleman (2003) focused on the
ever
increasing understanding in neuroscience that
cognition and emotions were interwoven in
mental
life, and suggested that different measures of
emotional intelligence that were not correlated
were tapping different aspects of the construct.

39. • To sum up,The ability to develop
and nurture specific emotional
intelligence properties at different
phases of learning could help to
increase the intensity and depth
of one’s learning experience.,