Types of Learners

Learning Style Preferences

Students have a tendency to use visual, auditory, or kinesthetic modality when there is a choice of how to learn.

Your cognitive learning style is how you prefer to learn new information.

Visual Learners:

Learn and remember best by seeing and visualizing information

Auditory Learners:

Learn and remember best by hearing and discussing information.

Kinesthetic Learners:

Learn and remember by using large and small body movements and hands-on experiences.

Three Learning Styles

Learning Style Preferences

When you use your strongest modality, learning is more efficient and recalling information is easier. Many learning strategies incorporate multiple modes of learning When you use more than one sensory channel, you create a stronger imprint of the information, so recall is quicker and more accurate. Situations requiring you to use a mode that you do not prefer can be more stressful and may explain your preferences for certain subjects. It is up to you to use your mode of learning.

Learning Style Preferences

Avoid headaches by using all three.

We will use “whole brain teaching” to access as many learning modalities as possible. This has been proven to increase recall accuracy.

Gestures, Mirroring, Teach/Okay

Visual Learners:

• Highlight

• Write notes

• Create visual aids

• Color code

• Add pics

• Write to remember

• Watch your teacher

Auditory Learners:

• Participate in discussions

• Paraphrase

• Question

• Recite

• Tape Lectures

• Record

• Write songs/Use Mnemonics

Kinesthetic Learners:

• Hands-on study

• Stand up

• Games

• Move

• Gestures

• Computer study

Three Learning Styles

Group Discussion

Take a few minutes to discuss strategies with your neighbors about how you can learn with the three different styles. Create a chart that shows some specifics.

Visual Learners:

• Write in textbooks

• Create a movie in your mind

• Use mappings and charts to sort info.

• Cover information and quiz yourself

• Use different fonts.

Auditory Learners:

• Join a study group

• Recite definitions and talk to yourself

• Read out loud

• Create songs, rhymes, or jingles to remember things

Kinesthetic Learners:

• Handle objects

• Use a whiteboard

• Pace while studying

• Use poster paper

• Recreate life size information

• Incorporate gestures

Three Learning Styles

Individual Activity

See-Say-Do:

Use all three to strengthen memory

Solve the problem your way:

A parent and child are standing together on the sidewalk. They both start walking at the same time. Each person begins with the right foot. The child takes three steps for every two steps the parent takes. How many steps must the child take until they land on the same foot again.

What is the answer?

Try it a different way.

Quick Check

1. To be a visual learner, a

person must possess all the characteristics of a visual learner.

2. Using more than one mode of learning increases memory and recall.