1. School Success
Secrets to Success!

2. Multiple Intelligences?
Multiple Intelligences
Learning Styles

3. What’s a Learning Style?
Have you found yourself asking for the teacher’s directions to be repeated?
Sometimes do things just not stick?
What’s going on? Is something wrong?

4. What’s a Learning Style?
There’s Good News and Bad News!
Good News is, there is probably nothing
wrong with you! Bad News is you will have to do some homework to figure out the best way to do your homework!
Truth is, everybody’s
brain is different, and
each brain prefers to take
in information in a particular way

5. What’s a Learning Style?
Some students remember
Best materials they’ve seen,
some remember things
they’ve heard, while others
remember things
they’ve experienced!

6. How Does Your Brain Work?
People view problems or new information in 2 different ways:
They see a big picture
They see a group of little parts
Example: Some history students will think of the Civil War as one large event with a series of battles and a specific outcome. Others will see it as a series of specific events and will remember battle places, individual victories, etc…

7. Which Way is Better?
Neither way is better. However, by understanding your learning style, you may understand why you find yourself reading and not understanding!

8. How Can You Determine Your Learning Style?
Understand the characteristics of each type of learner and which one(s) you identify with the most!

9. Let's Take
The Quiz!

10. Visual Learner Characteristics
Is good at spelling but forgets names
Needs quiet study time
Has to think awhile before understanding lecture
Is good at spelling
Likes colors & fashion
Dreams in color
Understands/likes charts
Is good with sign language

11. Auditory Learner Characteristics
Likes to read to self out loud
Is not afraid to speak in class
Likes oral reports
Is good at explaining
Remembers names
Notices sound effects in movies
Enjoys music
Is good at grammar and foreign language
Reads slowly
Follows spoken directions well
Can’t keep quiet for long periods
Enjoys acting, being on stage
Is good in study groups

12. Kinesthetic Learner Characteristics
Is good at sports
Can’t sit still for long
Is not great at spelling
Does not have great handwriting
Likes science lab
Studies with loud music on
Likes adventure books, movies
Likes role playing
Takes breaks when studying
Builds models
Is involved in martial arts, dance
Is fidgety during lectures

13. Why is it Important to Know My Learning Style?
Research shows that students can perform better on tests if they change study habits to fit their own personal learning styles.
Ex. Visual Learners will sometimes struggle during essay exams because they can’t recall test material that was “heard” in a lecture!

14. What Can You Do?
If that same visual learner uses a visual aid when studying, like a colorful outline of test materials, he/she may retain more information.
For this type of learner, visual tools improve the ability to recall information more completely.

15. Visual Learner Suggestions
Draw a map of events in history or draw scientific process
Make outlines of everything!
Copy what’s on the board
Ask the teacher to diagram
Diagram sentences
Take notes, make lists
Watch videos
Color code words, research notes
Outline reading
Use flashcards
Use highlighters, circle words, underline
Best Types of
Tests 
Diagramming
Reading maps
Essays
Showing a process
Worst Types of Tests 
Listen and respond tests

16. Auditory Learner Suggestions
Use word associations to remember facts and lines
Record lectures
Watch videos
Repeat facts with eyes closed
Participate in group discussions
Use audiotapes for language practice
Tape notes after writing them
Best Types of
Tests 
Writing responses to lectures
Oral exams
Worst Types of Tests 
Reading passages and writing answers about them in a timed test

17. Kinesthetic Learner Suggestions
Studying in short blocks
Taking lab classes
Role Playing
Taking field trips, visiting museums
Studying with others
Using memory games
Using flash cards to memorize
Best Types of
Tests 
Short definitions
Fill-ins
Multiple Choice
Worst Types of Tests 
Long Tests
Essays