This document discusses learning styles and provides strategies for teaching different types of learners. It defines three primary learning styles: visual, auditory, and tactile/kinesthetic. Visual learners prefer seeing information through pictures and diagrams. Auditory learners prefer hearing information spoken. Tactile/kinesthetic learners prefer learning through physical touch and movement. The document then provides examples of teaching strategies that cater to each learning style, such as using graphics and videos for visual learners, telling stories and jokes for auditory learners, and hands-on activities for tactile learners. It emphasizes remembering to use multiple modalities to engage different learners.

1. What are learning styles?
• Information enters your brain through
three methods: sight, hearing, and
touch. The one which you use the
most is called your learning style.
• Visual Learners learn by sight
• Auditory Learners learn by hearing
• Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) learn by
touch

2. Visual Learners
• Prefer to see information such as pictures,
diagrams, cartoons, or demonstrations
• Picture words and concepts that they hear
as images
• Might get easily distracted during a lecture
with no visual aids
• Could become overwhelmed with intense
visuals accompanied by lecture
• Benefit from using charts, maps, notes, and
flash cards when studying

3. Auditory Learners
• Prefer to hear information spoken
• Can absorb a lecture with little effort
• May not need detailed notes to learn
• Often avoid eye contact in order to
concentrate
• May read aloud to themselves
• Like background music when they study

4. 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 might help them learn and
remember important ideas

5. Learning Styles and
Teaching
• Remember to use a variety of learning modalities when
planning lessons.

6. Teaching Strategies

7. Visual Learners
Draw pictures to
represent ideas,
paint
Games: matching,
puzzles
Visual cues to
remember
Have a “being there”
experience
Field trip
Visualization and
imagine
Graphics
Flowcharts
Videos
Create
Models
Describe in detail
Color, lines, and
shapes
Creative designs
Sculptures
Graphic organizers
Art media
Displays
Posters
Charts
Brochures
Pictures and
illustrations
Cartoons and
caricatures
Color-coding

8. Auditory Learners
• Play word
games for
vocabulary
Explain ideas
Tell jokes,
riddles, and
limericks
Trivia games
Write
Report - oral and
written
Explain
Describe and
discuss
Interviews
Label
Give and follow
directions
Retell
Essays
Audio recordings
Speeches
Debates
Research
Projects
Quizzes and
tests
Logs, journals,
diaries
Questions and
answers

9. Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
• Opportunities to
move and handle
materials
Trace and highlight
Act out concepts
and stories role
playing
Models
Experiments
Write or draw while
listening
Walk while thinking
Use hands and
arms for expression
Imagine themselves
in a situation
Simulate
Dance or mime
Perform
Create, construct,
or develop
Gestures or actions
to support learning
Manipulatives
Inventions
Sports participation
Demonstrating
using physical
movement
Exercises
Hands-on
experiences
Simulations / Role-
playing
Field trips
Movement routines

10. What is your dominant learning style?
• Complete the Learning Styles
Inventory.
• Are you surprised by the results?
• How will this information assist you
with planning instructional activities
for students?