LEARNING STYLES
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LEARNING STYLES
Learning styles refers to your most used style.
3 ways information enters into the brain:
Sight - those who learns by sight are referred to as
'Visual Learners'.
Hearing - those who learns by hearing are referred to
as 'Auditory Learners'.
Touch - those who learns by touch are referred to as
'Tactile (Kinesthetic) Learners'.
• Prefers to see the information such
as diagrams, pictures, cartoons,
demonstrations
• Pictures words and concepts they
hear as images
VISUAL
• Easily distracted in lectures with no
LEARNERS:
visual aids
“Let me see it”
• Overwhelmed with intense visuals
accompanied by lectures
• Benefits from using charts, maps,
notes, and flashcards when
studying
• Prefers to hear the information
• Can absorb a lecture with little effort
AUDITORY • May not need careful notes to learn
LEARNERS: • Often avoids eye contact in order to
“Let me hear concentrate
it” • May read aloud to themselves
• Likes background music when they
study
• Prefers touch as their primary mode
of taking in information
• During traditional lectures, they
write out important facts
TACTILE OR • Create study sheets connected to
KINESTHETIC vivid examples
LEARNER: • Role playing can help them learn
“Let me and remember important ideas
experience it” • May benefit by using manipulatives
(physical tools that engages
students visually and physically with
objects such as puzzles, coins,
blocks, markers, etc.)
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MYERS-BRIGGS PERSONALITY INVENTORY
EXTROVERSION / INTROVERSION (SOCIAL ORIENTATION)
Extroverts
Likes talking with others and taking action
Prefers active learning and group activities and/or
projects
Introverts
Prefers others to do the talking
Prefers lectures and structured tasks
THINKING / FEELING (DECISION MAKING)
Thinkers
Likes to take objective approach
Emphasizes on logic and analysis in their decision
Prefers objective feedbacks
Thrives when there is pressure to succeed
Feelers
Prefers emotions to logic
Gives greater weight to the impact of relationships in
their decisions
Prefers positive feedbacks and individual recognition
JUDGING / PERCEIVING (ACHIEVING GOALS)
Judgers
Prefers clearly defined strategies to achieve goals
May jump to closure too quickly
Prefers orderliness, structures and deadlines
Perceivers
Likes to consider all sides to a problem, sometimes
risks for not completing their work
Prefers spontaneity and flexibility
DISCOVERING YOUR OWN LEARNING STYLE:
Take a learning style test or think about your favorite class,
what did they have in common? Did you like:
❖ Mastering facts
❖ Discussion or working on your own
❖ Lecture or working in pairs or with a group
❖ Hands-on activities
Knowing your learning style, both your strengths and
weaknesses, will help you study more effectively.
How to build strengths across the learning style:
1. Make the best use of your learning style
2. Work harder on skills that don’t come easily to
you
3. Be flexible and adaptable, try new things and new
ways
4. Keep growing, don’t be easily satisfied
• It is important to remember, no matter what your
learning style is:
❖ Be involved in class- participate
❖ Link classroom experience to the outside world
❖ Relate class concepts to your own life
❖ Ask questions and offer criticisms
❖ Stimulate further relevant discussions
❖ Don’t get distracted- stay “on task”
❖ Keep an open mind, there are many ideas beyond
your own
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