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MULTIMODAL STRATEGIES

• Designer of the VARK questionnaire and associated resources was Neil


Fleming.
• Not all the learners are the same. Each student and person has a unique
and complex system of thinking and learning.
• VARK is an acronym that refers to the four types of learning styles:
Visual
Auditory
Reading/Writing Preference
Kinesthetic
Visual Auditory
learners learners
learn best learn best by
by seeing hearing

Kinesthetic Read/ Write


learners learners learn
learn best best by
by reading and
touching writing
and doing information
Conclusion
You have to know the VARK profile (learning styles) for your
students and use multimodal strategies adapting to their
learning styles.
Neil D. Fleming

Neil D. Fleming (born 1939) is a teacher from New Zealand.


• He has taught in universities, teacher education centers and high schools.
• Before working for eleven years in faculty development at Lincoln University, he was for nine years a
senior inspector for the over 100 high schools in the South Island of New Zealand. This involved being
a critical observer of over 9000 'lessons' in classrooms.
Fleming is best known worldwide for the design of the VARK model.
• Fleming came up with the idea for the VARK model while working as an inspector for the New Zealand
education system; he noticed that some great teachers were not reaching some students while other
poor teachers were. When he moved to Lincoln University he decided to investigate why this was.
• His VARK model was initiated in 1987 through work done at Lincoln University.
• Prior to Fleming's work, VAK was in common usage. Fleming split the Visual dimension (the V in VAK)
into two parts—symbolic as Visual (V) and text as Read/write (R). This created a fourth mode,
Read/write and brought about the word VARK for a new concept, a learning-preferences approach, a
questionnaire and support materials.

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