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Learning Styles
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Begin to learn something
NEW or DIFFICULT
in your
Strength.
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Reinforce it in as many ways possible.
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Some Approaches to Learning
Styles
• Sensory Modes
• Hemispheric Dominance
• Multiple Intelligence
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AUDITORY
• Use their voices and
• Listen carefully in
their ears as the
class.
primary mode of
• Tape record-both
learning. You
classes and notes for
remember what you
review and practice
hear and what you say
tests.
yourself. You want to
• Discuss material with
talk about something
another student or
difficult. You love
instructor.
class discussion.
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Visual
• Want to actually see the
• Review and study
words written down, a
material by reading and
picture of something
organizing--maybe
being described, a time
even recopying.
line to remember events
• Using mapping
in history, or the
techniques.
assignment written on the
board. Probably you
• And mental videos.
organize your materials.
You appreciate being able
to follow with an overhead
transparency or handout.
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Kinesthetic
• Prefer and actually
learn better when they
touch and are
physically involved in
what they are
studying. Act out a
situation, do a project
and in general be
busy with your
learning. You may
take lots of notes and
never re-read them!
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Make copious notes
Use computer
Use Cornell System
Make flashcards
Mapping
Make summary sheets
Take sample tests
Pace/Dance/Cheer
Make models
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Most ACADEMIC information is
geared to the left side of the brain
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LEFT
Handwriting
Symbols
Reading
Phonics
Locating Details/Facts
Talking/Reciting
Listening
Following Directions
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RIGHT
Spatial Relationships
Perception
Shapes and Patterns
Color Sensitivity
Singing and Music
Creativity
Visualization
Feeling and Emotion
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One Brain-Two Sides
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Right and Left Work Together for Many Things
But, Process Information in Very Different Ways
Most People Have a Dominant Side
When Something is New, Difficult or
Unfamiliar,we automatically go to dominant side
• No one Is Totally Left or Totally Right Brained
• You Can and Must Develop Both Sides of the
Brain
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Practical Strategies For Right
Brained Learners
• To get WHOLE picture
– Survey first
– Read questions at end
– Read summary at end
– Finally read
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Left Brain
–Linear
–Symbolic
–Sequential
–Logical
–Verbal
–Reality Based
–Temporal
Right Brain
–Holistic
–Concrete
–Random
–Intuitive
–Nonverbal
–Fantasy
Oriented
–Non-Temporal
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Begin to learn something
NEW or DIFFICULT
in your
Strength.
Reinforce it in as many ways possible.
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