1. LEARNING STYLES …What's your style? Academic Support Unit

2. How your brain prefers to access new ideas. AUDITORY VISUAL KINESTHETIC Different Learning Styles Student Learning Support Center

3. Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style ACADEMIC PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL Student Learning Support Center

4. Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style ACADEMIC Maximizes your learning potential Succeed in school, college, university Customized techniques to score better on tests and exams Learn “your way” Overcome limitations of poor instructors Reduces the stress and frustration of learning experiences Expands your existing learning and studying strategies Student Learning Support Center

5. Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style PERSONAL Increases your self-confidence Improves your self-image Teaches you how to use your brain best Insight into your strengths, weaknesses and habits Enjoy any learning process Inspires greater curiosity, motivation for lifelong learning Take advantage of your natural skills & inclinations Student Learning Support Center

6. Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style PROFESSIONAL Stay up-to-date professionally Edge over your competitors Manage teams more effectively Improves your persuasive and sales skills Improve cooperation among colleagues Translates learning power  earning power Student Learning Support Center

7. What’s your Learning Style?

8. Visual Learners Learning through visually appealing materials Photographic memories Quiet place to study Benefit from recopying or making their own notes Trouble following long lectures Good at spelling Detail oriented Need to see the instructor's facial expressions and body language Clear line of sight to blackboard or visual aids Remember how people looked and dressed in the past Forget names easily. Student Learning Support Center

9. Write things down Copy what's on the board Sit near the front of the classroom to see instructor clearly Create visual reminders of auditory info Use mind maps to summarize large tracts of information Take notes Make lists Watch videos Use flashcards Use highlighters, underlining, etc. Suggestions for VISUAL LEARNERS Student Learning Support Center

10. PREFERRED TEST STYLES Essays, Diagramming, Maps, Demonstrating a process POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS visual artists, inventors, architects, interior designers, mechanics, engineers, navigators, sculptors Visual Learners Student Learning Support Center

11. Auditory Learners Talkative in class, Can’t keep quiet for long Learn effectively through lectures, oral presentations, music Unless heard, information has little relevance Prefer giving oral reports to written ones Remember who said what in the past Enjoy discussions and debates Benefit from reading aloud. Memorize well Remember names Doesn’t automatically understand graphs, diagrams or maps. Often sings, hums or whistles to themselves May use finger as pointer when reading Benefits from study groups Prefers to listen to music rather than view a piece of art Student Learning Support Center

12. Use audiotapes for learning languages Read textbooks aloud Repeat facts with eyes closed Ask questions Describe aloud what is to be remembered Use word association to remember facts and lines. Watch videos. Participate in group discussions. Listen to taped notes Record lectures & listen to them again Avoid auditory distractions. Suggestions for AUDITORY LEARNERS Student Learning Support Center

13. PREFERRED TEST STYLES Writing responses to lectures, oral exams POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS Writer, journalist, teacher, lawyer, politician, blogger, translator, poet Auditory Learners Student Learning Support Center

14. Kinesthetic Learners Master skills through imitation and practice. Benefit from hands-on teaching techniques Difficult to sit still for long periods of time. Remember who did ‘what’ in the past Prefer to stand, walk about when learning. Bad handwriting Talk fast using hands to communicate Enjoy having background music while studying or working. Good at sports Take frequent breaks when studying Do not have good handwriting Talk fast using hands to communicate Enjoy having background music while studying or working. Good at sports Take frequent breaks when studying Student Learning Support Center

15. Create a model Demonstrate a principle Practice a technique Participate in simulations Engage in hands-on activities Study in comfortable position, not necessarily sitting in a chair Suggestions for KINESTHETIC LEARNERS Student Learning Support Center

16. Suggestions for KINESTHETIC LEARNERS PREFERRED TEST STYLES Multiple choice, short definitions fill in the blanks POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS Dancers, physical education teachers, actors, firefighters, athletes, mimes, engineers Student Learning Support Center