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LEARNING STYLES
…What's your style?
Academic Support Unit
Different Learning Styles
AUDITORY
How your brain prefers
to access new ideas.
VISUAL
KINESTHETIC
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Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style
ACADEMIC
PERSONAL
PROFESSIONAL
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Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style
ACADEMIC
•Maximizes your learning potential
•Succeed in school, college, university
•Customized techniques to score better on
tests and exams
•Learn “your way”
•Overcome limitations of poor instructors
•Reduces the stress and frustration of
learning experiences
•Expands your existing learning and
studying strategies
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Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style
PERSONAL
•Increases your self-confidence
•Improves your self-image
•Teaches you how to use your brain best
•Insight into your strengths, weaknesses
and habits
•Enjoy any learning process
•Inspires greater curiosity, motivation for
lifelong learning
•Take advantage of your natural skills &
inclinations
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Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style
PROFESSIONAL
•Stay up-to-date professionally
•Edge over your competitors
•Manage teams more effectively
•Improves your persuasive and sales
skills
•Improve cooperation among colleagues
•Translates learning power  earning
power
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What’s your Learning Style?
Visual Learners
•Learning through visually appealing materials
•Photographic memories
•Quiet place to study
•Benefit from recopying or making their own notes
•Trouble following long lectures
•Good at spelling
•Detail oriented
•Need to see the instructor's facial expressions and body language
•Clear line of sight to blackboard or visual aids
•Remember how people looked and dressed in the past
•Forget names easily.
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Suggestions for VISUAL LEARNERS
•Write things down
•Copy what's on the board
•Sit near the front of the classroom to see instructor clearly
•Create visual reminders of auditory info
•Use mind maps to summarize large tracts of information
•Take notes
•Make lists
•Watch videos
•Use flashcards
•Use highlighters, underlining, etc.
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Visual Learners
PREFERRED TEST STYLES
•Essays, Diagramming, Maps, Demonstrating a
process
POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS
visual artists, inventors, architects, interior designers,
mechanics, engineers, navigators, sculptors
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Auditory Learners
•Talkative in class , Can’t keep quiet for long
•Learn effectively through lectures, oral presentations, music
•Unless heard, information has little relevance
•Prefer giving oral reports to written ones
•Remember who said what in the past
•Enjoy discussions and debates
•Benefit from reading aloud.
•Memorize well
•Remember names
•Doesn’t automatically understand graphs, diagrams or maps.
•Often sings, hums or whistles to themselves
•May use finger as pointer when reading
•Benefits from study groups
•Prefers to listen to music rather than view a piece of art
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Suggestions for AUDITORY LEARNERS
•Use audiotapes for learning languages
•Read textbooks aloud
•Repeat facts with eyes closed
•Ask questions
•Describe aloud what is to be remembered
•Use word association to remember facts and lines.
•Watch videos.
•Participate in group discussions.
•Listen to taped notes
•Record lectures & listen to them again
•Avoid auditory distractions.
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Auditory Learners
PREFERRED TEST STYLES
Writing responses to lectures, oral exams
POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS
Writer, journalist, teacher, lawyer, politician, blogger,
translator, poet
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Kinesthetic Learners
•Master skills through imitation and practice.
•Benefit from hands-on teaching techniques
•Difficult to sit still for long periods of time.
•Remember who did ‘what’ in the past
•Prefer to stand, walk about when learning.
• Bad handwriting
•Talk fast using hands to communicate
•Enjoy having background music while studying or working.
•Good at sports
•Take frequent breaks when studying
•Do not have good handwriting
•Talk fast using hands to communicate
•Enjoy having background music while studying or working.
•Good at sports
•Take frequent breaks when studying
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Suggestions for KINESTHETIC LEARNERS
•Create a model
•Demonstrate a principle
•Practice a technique
•Participate in simulations
•Engage in hands-on activities
•Study in comfortable position, not necessarily sitting
in a chair
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Suggestions for KINESTHETIC LEARNERS
PREFERRED TEST STYLES
Multiple choice, short definitions fill in the blanks
POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS
Dancers, physical education teachers, actors,
firefighters, athletes, mimes, engineers
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