Learning Styles

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Learning Styles

• Is there one best way to learn?

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About learning styles

• Learning styles are unique
• Tailor your study needs
• Choose complementary study techniques

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Learning preferences

• Hearing - Auditory
• Reading - Visual
• Demonstration - Kinesthetic

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Learning styles versus teaching styles

• Instructors teaching style usually reflects his/
  her own learning style.
• Can be mismatches.
• Work on weaker areas.

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Auditory learners

• Learn best by hearing
• Accurately remember details of conversations
• Well-developed vocabularies
• Strong oral communication skills

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Practical suggestions

• Participate
• Listen intently
• Teach your learning to others
• Read aloud
• Mnemonics
• Study groups

Learn through listening
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Visual learners

• Learn best by seeing information
• Charts, pictures and diagrams
• Strong visual-spatial skills
• Interpret body language

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Practical suggestions

• Pictures, charts, diagrams
• See instructor
• Use colour
• Organization
• Drawing arrows
• Abbreviations, symbols

Learn through seeing
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Kinesthetic learners

• Learn best by using their
• hands
• Activities that involve
• movement

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Practical suggestions
Learn through doing

• Breaks
• Move around
• Chew gum
• Use colour
• Skim reading first
• Write and rewrite

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Wise words

• Education is learning what you didn't even know
  you didn't know.
• Daniel J. Boorstin

• Teachers open the door. You enter yourself.
• Chinese proverb