learning styles

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Learning StylesLearning Styles

Presented by

Jennifer WoodenPeer Coach

Northeast Center

Learning StylesDo you know how you learn best?

Your learning style is the way you prefer to learn.  It doesn't have anything to do with how intelligent you are or what skills you have learned.  It has to do with how your brain works

most efficiently to learn new information.  There is a workshop located https://bitly.com/WorkshopMaterials that can help you to identify your own learning style

and show you how to develop learning strategies that work for you so you can create a customized approach to achieving academic success.

V A R K Learning StylesWhich style best fits you?

Identifying how you learn best!

Visual

Aural/Auditory

Read/Write

Kinesthetic

Multimodal

Visual Learner

Keen sense of aesthetics, visual media and art

Pictures, videos, posters, slides

Strong visual-spatial understanding of things such as sizes, textures, angels and three-dimensional depths

Textbooks with diagrams and pictures

Make “movies in their minds” of information they are reading

Underlining in different colors - highlighters

Pay close attention to body language

Aural (hearing) / Auditory

Attend residency programs

Attend study groups and tutorials

Discuss topics with others

Discuss topics with your teachers

Have strong oral communication skills

Use a digital recording device to record information - text to speech in word

Fined tune ear - remember the interesting examples, stories jokes

Read / Write

Lists - “To Do”

Headings

Dictionaries

Textbooks - words, words, words....

Readings - library

Teachers who use words well and have lots of information

Manuals (computing and laboratory)

Kinesthetic (doing)

All your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing

Often have well coordinated and have strong sense of timing and body movement

Study groups

Lecturers who give real-life examples

Hands on activities

Trial and Error

Solutions to problems, previous quizzes

Multimodal

If you have multiple preferences you are in the majority, as approximately 60% of any population fits this category

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