1. DIAGNOSING LEARNING STYLE

3. ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGICAL PHYSICAL COGNITIVE

4. ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL: your external surroundings

5. ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENTS

6. Your preferences about:  AMOUNT OF SOUND  TYPE/ AMOUNT OF LIGHT  TEMPERATURE  FURNITURE

7. PSYCHOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL: your emotional preferences

8. PSYCHOLOGICAL STYLE

9. THE PROFESSOR ENCOURAGES STUDENTS’: competition cooperation

10. THE PROFESSOR and STUDENT INDEPENDENCE: Expects students to ask for help Guides students step by step

11. THE PROFESSOR STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF: Individual effort Group effort

12. SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGICAL: your interactions with people

13. You like to learn:  BY YOURSELF  IN A PAIR  WITH A GROUP  WITH AN EXPERT

14. PHYSICAL PHYSICAL: your personal needs

15. PHYSICAL STYLE TIME SENSES MOBILITYINTAKE

16. Your preferences:  PERCEPTUAL (senses)  INTAKE  TIME  MOBILITY

17. WHEN GIVING DIRECTION, THE PROFESSOR: “Tells” what to do “Shows” what to do

18. THE PROFESSOR and VISUAL AIDS: uses often uses rarely

19. DURING CLASS THE PROFESSOR: Mostly lectures Mostly holds class discussion

20. COGNITIVE

21. You think:  ANALYTICALLY (starting with the details) vs.  GLOBALLY (starting with the big picture)

22. Logical or intuitive?

23. Or you think:  INDUCTIVELY (specifically) vs.  DEDUCTIVELY (generalizing)

25. You react:  REFLECTIVELY vs.  SPONTANEOUSLY “ impulsively”

26. CEREBRAL PREFERENCE LEFT BRAIN vs. RIGHT BRAIN

27. You process via:  LEFT BRAIN (verbal, logical) vs.  RIGHT BRAIN (visual, creative)

28. LEFT BRAIN vs. RIGHT BRAIN

30. DIGITAL COMPUTER KALEID OSCOPE

31. SENSIBLE vs. CREATIVE

32. RIGHT HEMISPHERE LEFT HEMISPHERE 1. INPUT 2. LANGUAGE 3. MEMORY 4. TESTS 5. PROCESSING 6. PERSUASION 7. METAPHORS 8. APPEARANCE 9. PLANNING 10.TIME 11. DECISIONMAKING 12. MEMORY 13. GESTURES

33. 1. RECEIVING prefers verbal information prefers visual, tactile information

34. 2. LANGUAGE responds to word’s meaning responds to word’s tone, pitch, emotional content

35. Oops!

36. 3. MEMORY recalls facts, dates recalls faces, images

37. 4. TESTING better at multiple- choice tests better at essay exams

38. 5. PROCESSING wants info in sequence, step-by- step wants info in chunks, patterns, as a whole

39. 6. PERSUASION responds to logical appeals responds to emotional appeals

40. 7. METAPHORS rarely uses metaphor frequently uses metaphors

41. APPEARANCE

42. 8. APPEARANCE looks neat, straight, organized looks disorganized, untidy

43. 9. PLANNING structured, plans ahead fluid, spontaneous ad libs

44. 10. TIME punctual, with a strong sense of time little sense of time

45. 11. DECISIONMAKING reflective: considers decisions spontaneous: quick decisions

46. 12. MEMORY recalls people’s names recalls people’s faces

47. 13. GESTURES speaks with few gestures gestures when speaking

48. seeing smelling hearing touching doing

49. Sensory Preferences Seeing – visual channel Hearing – auditory channel Hearing – auditory channel Doing – haptic/ kinesthetic and tactile channel

50. VISUAL total _______

51. AUDITORY total _______

52. HAPTIC total _______

53. AUDITORY LEARNERS VISUAL LEARNERS HAPTIC LEARNERS

54. VISUAL LEARNERS VISUAL LEARNERS You will usually learn better when you read or SEE information; your textbooks will be easier than straight lectures. Write down things you want to remember.

55. AUDITORY LEARNERS You will usually learn better when information comes through your ears - you need to HEAR information; you will probably do better in lecture situations than in those requiring a lot of reading. Recite aloud things you want to remember.

56. HAPTIC LEARNERS HAPTIC LEARNERS You will usually learn better when you’re able to DO: experience, experiment, and move. Get active with things you want to remember

57. WHERE TO SIT

58. Sit right up front in a classroom to stay connected and reduce opportunities to “zone out” - closeness to the professor can be very energizing. Sit away from distractions.

59. BEGINNING A READING ASSIGNMENT

60. Start actively previewing a chapter before reading by first highlighting the title and headings, by numbering the headings and subheadings, by marking or captioning pictures, charts, maps and diagrams by taking end-of-chapter quizzes to get your momentum going.

61. USING HIGHLIGHTING

62. Use color and visual highlighting to mark up textbooks, handouts, and lecture notes. Write or diagram main points in the margin if there’s room.

63. MEMORIZING

64. Squeeze a tennis ball, spin a yoyo, chew gum, doodle, etc. while reading. When you have to memorize something, pace or walk around while reciting to yourself, looking at a list or index cards.

65. TO HAVE NOISE OR NOT TO HAVE NOISE

66. Music or white noise in the background can help siphon off distracting energy.