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Study Skills III: Learning

style preferences and


strategies
Hannah Morris
• What are the different learning styles?
• Why are they important?
• What is YOUR learning style?
• Study tips:
Session • Visual
• Auditory
schedule • Tactile
• Reading/writing
• Summary
• Conclusion
What are the different
learning styles?
• Visual Learners: Associates information with
an image or diagram.
• Auditory Learners: Preference for listening to
information rather than reading or seeing it
displayed.
• Reading and Writing Learners: Interacts with
written text in comparison to images.
• Kinesthetic Learners: ‘hands on’ learners -
practising and doing.

• Multimodal learners: Using multiple styles


Others
• Visual (spatial): Preference for using pictures, images, and spatial
understanding.
• Aural (auditory-musical): Preference for using sound.
• Verbal (linguistic): Preference for using words.
• Physical (kinesthetic): Preference for using your body, hands and
sense of touch.
• Logical (mathematical): Preference for Logic, reasoning and systems.
• Social (interpersonal): Preference to learn in groups or with other
people.
• Solitary (intrapersonal): Preference to work alone.
Why is important to know the
different learning styles?
• Use techniques better suited to you.
• Improves the speed and quality of learning.
• Guides the way you learn
• Change the way you internally represent experiences
(e.g. as images/sounds/motions)
• Each learning style uses different parts of the brain.
Involving more of the brain, we remember more of
what we learn.
• Be open about all learning styles, even if you dont feel
they are for you.
What’s YOUR learning style?
Visual learners Auditory learners
• Notes are covered with drawings • Easily distracted by noises
• Good with remembering faces but not names • Difficulty working quietly for long periods of
• Good at spelling time
• Rather read a story than listen to it • Good listener
• Easily remember what others say
• Good with maps and directions
• Creative. Enjoys creating artwork or writing • Likes to read to self out loud.
stories. • Is not afraid to speak in class.
• Comes up with their best ideas during quiet • Likes oral reports.
time.
• Is good at explaining.
• Learn best when using graphical ways to • Remembers names.
represent what they are studying.
• May have to think for a bit to process a • Notices sound effects in movies.
speech or lecture.
• Create strong pictures in their minds when
they read.
What’s YOUR learning style?
Tactile learners Reading & writing learners
• Excel at sports, art or drama • Love making lists
• Enjoy building, making or creating • Enjoy reading and writing
• Have trouble sitting still • Prefer to have written directions
• Fiddles with objects while thinking
• Can't sit still for long
• Good with their hands.
• Good at remembering things they’ve actually
done before
• Enjoy active learning - process information
while being physically active or engaged.
• Not always suited to the traditional
classroom.
• Don’t usually take notes
Visual: How do they
learn best?
• Need to see information to learn it
• Closes eyes to envision the knowledge
• Brings up mental imagery when you're trying to
remember something
• Remembers the cover of books they have read
• Can take many forms: spatial awareness,
photographic memory, colour/tone,
brightness/contrast and other visual information.
• Overheads, chalk/white board, pictures, graphs,
maps other visual items help a visual learner to
learn more effectively
Visual: Study tips
• Take notes
• Review and revise notes
• Create a presentation
• Redraw your pages from memory
• Take notice of the visual layout of your
notes
• Close your eyes and try to visualise your
notes and diagrams
• Organise your notes
Visual: Study tips
• Study in solitude
• Make study area visually appealing
• Diagram/symbols sentences
• Watch videos
• Colour code
• Highlighters, circle words, underline.
• Flashcards
• Incorporate white space
• Outlines and concept maps/mind map to organize your notes -
visual representation of your thoughts - helps make connections
between concepts
Auditory: How do
they learn best?
• Discussions, debates, and talking to others.
• Oral presentations
• Read more slowly.
• Storytelling
• Do not necessarily need to take notes as
they are able to take in what they need
simply by listening intently.
• Difficulty interpreting complicated graphs,
maps or diagrams
Auditory: Study tips
• Record your summarized notes and listen to them on tape.
• Talk it out. Have a discussion with others to expand upon your
understanding of a topic.
• Reread your notes/assignments out loud.
• Explain your notes to your peers/family.
• Teach what you learn
• Use Word Association - Mnemonic devices, such as rhymes
• Study in quiet space
Kinesthetic: How do
they learn best?
• Lab experiments
• Projects
• Real life examples
• Doing something physical whilst studying
Kinesthetic: Study tips

• Use real life examples, applications and case


studies
• Redo lab experiments or projects.
• Utilize pictures and photographs that illustrate
your idea.
• Create Flow Charts - structure your notes
• Combine an activity with studying – walk whilst
listening to a lecture
• Keep your fingers busy while studying – rewrite
your notes, trace over them, use your sense of
touch.
Kinesthetic: Study tips

• Stimulate taste whilst studying using gum - different


flavoured gum for each subject.
• Instead of drawing arrows on paper to make connections,
use separate pieces of paper which you can move around.
• Use a large exercise ball instead of a chair while studying
• Take frequent short study breaks to keep from being
stagnate while you study
• Draw pictures that help you remember the material.
• Make a note of the environment in which you learned it--
sight, sound, smells, taste, and, of course, touch to
associate your senses with the topic of study
• Approach the topic from another angle. Use materials you
can manipulate, like blocks, pencils..etc...
Reading/writing: How do they learn best?
• Traditional classroom.
• Taking notes during class.
• Reading over notes and/or
copying them out.
• Work best in quiet areas.
• Prefer to study alone
• Making lists
• Prefers written directions
Reading/Writing:
Study tips
• Rewrite notes in your own words over and
over again
• Reword main ideas and principles to gain a
deeper understanding.
• Review your class notes
• Translate visual information into
statements.
• Use bullet point lists.
• Subheadings
Example: Directions to the bus station
• Visual learner: picture of map • Tactile learner: actually
practising the route, or tracing it
with their finger on the map

• Read/write learner:
• Continue forward to the first
roundabout/traffic circle
• Take the third exit (if you live in a
country where it is righthand
drive!)
• It’s the second building on your
• Auditory learner: spoken left
directions
Example: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Visual learner: image and pictures • Tactile learner: using building blocks.

• Read/write learner:
• self actualisation: all needs met
• Self esteem: approval
• Auditory learner: describe it or make a • Belonging: friends and family
mnemonic out of the first letters (Silly • Safety: shelter
Esa Buys Silly Pencils) • Physiological: food, drink
Summary
• Visual
• Auditory
• Reading/writing
• Kinesthetic

• Multimodal
Conclusion
• Understanding learning styles helps us to work more effectively

• Different styles are used by different people at different times for


different tasks

• Try different approaches.

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