LEARNING STYLES

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 TYPES OF LEARNERS
• 1. Kinesthetic Learners
• 2. Auditory Learners
• 3. Visual Learners
• 4. Verbal Learners
 1. KINESTHETIC LEARNERS.
• They like doing things rather than sitting to study them. They’d rather try
it out and figure answers out as they do.

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 Characteristics of Kinesthetic Learners
• Natural doers, struggle to sit for a long time.
• Good at sports, love laboratory experiments and performing art activities.
• Always seek active breaks and have rapid shifts in their interests.
• Not good at comprehensions, charts and graphs.
• Like learning using digital learning apps. E.g. Math frame, Google earth,
times tables speed test X, Hit The Button etc. as well as notecards.
 Kinesthetic characteristics (contd)
• Love human interaction and learning activities where they get to work
with others.
• Have many hobbies or activities. One may engage in scouting, basketball,
piano, singing, skating.
• Struggle to study when it is all quiet and/or when they are doing nothing
else. E.g. preps in boarding school.
• Kinesthetic adults struggle to work all day in an office may prefer
fieldwork or working from a not so busy restaurant or park.
 Study Tips for Kinesthetic Learners
• Practical application of learned concept like measuring the area of their living room and checking
out existing examples of what they have leant e.g. advertisement posters, animal adaptations etc.
• Study with others doing activities e.g bean bag activity in mental math and have group
discussions.
• Sit at alternative place, allow them to read their novel from the couch or carpet. They may use a
white board occasionally to concretize their tasks to enhance memory. They can as well learn
from the balcony or quiet park with very little activity. Switch between in door and outdoor
setting to maximize concentration.
• Have something to play with in hands or legs. Help learn e.g. stress balls, pop it, fidget spinners,
tennis under leg, balance balls etc.
 Kinesthetic study tips (contd)
• Take active breaks. 5 minute break after every 20 minutes of learning.
Active break activities can be push ups, jog, basket ball etc.
• Teach someone- verbalizing enhances and increases interest in subject
matter.
• Act or trace-trace a shape even in the air. Act out characters in history or
stories characters.
• Individualized learning customized to their preference and that can be
changed from time to time.
 2. AUDITORY LEARNERS

• Learn best when they hear.

• They do better in school coz of the lecture method, as well as the usual quiet
mode of study.

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 Characteristics of Auditory Learners
• Strong auditory memory- Ability to remember said things, names, phone
numbers, addresses said etc.
• Follow verbal directions and instructions better. They play back the person
saying in their mind.
• Prefer things explained than read.
• Can read signals from someone’s tone of voice e.g emotional state or mood.
• Remember lyrics of songs even after listening once.
 Study Tips for Auditory Learners
• Listen to podcast and watch videos on the content others are reading about, which
enhances understanding and memory.
• Read out loud, mouth words in library. (taught in school as bad reading habits)
• They record lessons on phone and play back. Record yourself reading and play it
back. Repeat facts out loud eyes closed. This blocks out destructive visual sense.
• Put things you’re learning in a song, rap, rhyme e.g. body parts song (heads,
shoulders, knee). Search online you’ll find a song for almost everything :
Victorians song, Roman numbers.
 Study Tips for Auditory Learners(contd)
• Have a study buddy also video chart or zoom.
• Use background music. They don’t like complete silence or too loud
sounds. Music drowns out background noise of conversation. Some don’t
like music with lyrics. Have playlists of study music, maybe different
depending on the type of study.
• Ask verbal directions or just questions.
• Get a tutor. They learn better because tutors talk!
 3. VISUAL LEARNERS.
• Are good at visualizing. They think in pictures more vividly. They are very
imaginative.

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 Characteristics of Visual Learners
• Are good at visualizing images in vivid details mentally.
• Interpret visual information: Charts & graphs.
• Good at spelling.
• Prefer reading information e.g. remember a name from a name tag.
• Are doodlers in class, they use many doodles and stickers.
• Like visual arts like photography, drawing and painting.
 Study Tips for Visual Learners
• Make notes colorful. Color coding using colored pens and neon highlighters.
• Make charts, graphs and images as you read.
• Find a quiet place to study. They are distracted by visual input. Study in a
library or at home.
• Sit in front of the class. Sitting behind makes the other classmates a visual
distraction. They should they see the board, teacher or presentation clearly.
• Make the study area visually appealing.
 VISUAL STUDY TIPS (CONTD)
• Read for 25 minutes and take a 1-5mins break. During the break, totally
disconnect from your reading.
• Review the highlighted points after the break.
4. VERBAL/LINGUISTIC LEARNERS.
• They like communicating and love Languages.

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Characteristics of Verbal Learners/Linguistic

• Enjoy discussions over lectures.

• Enjoy scrabble, puzzles, crossword (word games).
• Know many languages.
• Have extensive vocabulary.
• Hate dead silence. They hum or tap when it’s all silent.
• Weak with visual information, maps, charts, graphs.
• Also weak with spelling.
• Prefer classroom presentation to writing papers.
 Study Tips for Verbal Learners
• Talk it out even when studying alone, whisper or mouth it out.
• Join a study group.
• Use background music without lyrics (Study music on YouTube)
• Make up songs or rhymes of school work.
• Listen to others e.g. YouTube videos. They are good listeners.