Learning Styles

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Learning Styles

• By Caroline Blair
• 24 February 2005

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Types of Learners

• Visual 40 of population
• Auditory 30 of population
• Kinesthetic 30 of population

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Visual Learners Typically

• Remember what was read or seen.
• Don't retain what they hear for very long
• May think in pictures or may think in words
• Vivid imaginations
• Use color
• Remember faces, but not names
• Like written reports better than verbal ones

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Auditory Learners Typically

• Remember what they hear
• Talk while they write
• May be a sophisticated speaker
• Remember by listening, especially music
• Often, information written down will have little
  meaning until it has also been heard

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Kinesthetic Learners Typically

• Want to move all the time
• Are well coordinated
• Are doers
• Like to take things apart, put them back together
  and see how things work
• Need concrete things to act as learning aides

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Break it down

• What are the strengths of your learning style?
• What are the challenges?
• What are some strategies you can use to be more
  successful particularly in your current classes?

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More ideas for the visual learner

• Write out everything for frequent and quick
  visual review
• Use color coding when learning new concepts and
  words
• Use outlines of reading assignments which cover
  key points and guide your reading
• Use notes and flash cards for review of material,
  vocabulary, and terminology for a specific course

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More for the Auditory Learner

• The student should position themselves in the
  classroom or lecture hall so that he/she can hear
  lectures and review them frequently
• Read aloud or re-auditorize written material
  (restate in your own words)
• Verbally review spelling words and lectures with
  another person - practice verbal repetition

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More Ideas for Kinesthetic Learners

• Study in short blocks of time rather than
  extended periods
• Study in short blocks of time rather than
  extended periods
• Have as many experimental learning opportunities
  as possible, such as lab and studio courses, as
  opposed to straight lecture classes - if you have
  a choice
• Use flash cards

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Additional Resources

• UofMN http//www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/stra
  t/lrnsty.html
• VARK http//www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
• Support for Learning http//www.support4learning.
  org.uk/education/lstyles.htm