1. What are Learning Styles?
Information enters your brain three main ways: (1) sight
(2) hearing
(3) touch
The way a person prefers to learn is called his/her “Learning Style.
” There is no right or wrong, good or bad learning style.

2. Teaching and Learning Styles
• A person’s learning style has nothing to do with intelligence or skills.
• It has everything to do with the way a person’s brain works to learn and store information efficiently.
• Since everyone learns differently, understanding learning styles can help you become a better student.

3. Learning Styles
• By examining learning styles, you will become aware of how your brain learns best.
• This awareness gives you the chance to study effectively and be more successful in and out of school.

4. Three Types of Learning Styles
Visual Learners – learn by sight.
Auditory Learners – learn by hearing.
Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) – learn by touch.

5. Characteristics of Visual Learners
• Prefer to see information such as pictures, diagrams, cartoons, and demonstrations.
• They picture words and concepts they hear as images.
• They are easily distracted in lecture with no visual aids.
• Overwhelmed with intense visuals accompanied by lecture.
• Benefit from using charts, maps, notes, and flash cards when studying.
Let me see it!

6. Visual Learners Suggestions for Studying
• Take lecture notes.
• Underline, highlight, or circle printed material.
• Borrow others’ notes, compare to own.
• Draw pictures in notes to illustrate concepts.
• Use a variety of colors – in pens, pencils, markers, highlighters, paper, etc. for different categories or concepts.
• Write it out!
• Draw out ideas.
• Work with many colors.
• Use outlines, pictures, graphs, charts, and diagrams.

7. Characteristics of Auditory Learners
• Prefer to hear information spoken.
• Can absorb a lecture with little effort.
• May not need careful notes to learn.
• Often avoid eye contact in order to concentrate.
• May read aloud to themselves.
• Like background music when they study.
Let me hear it!

8. Auditory Learners Suggestions for Studying
• Study in groups and talk things out.
• Work out problems aloud.
• Record lectures, teaching and study group sessions, etc.
• Read texts out loud (into recorder).
• Listen to lecture/text tapes while driving, walking, etc.
• Dictate papers, to be typed later.
• Read questions aloud.
• Use word association.

9. Tactile or Kinesthetic Learners
• Prefer touch as their primary mode for taking in information.
• In traditional lecture situations, they should write out important facts.
• Create study sheets connected to vivid examples.
• Role-playing can help them learn and remember important ideas.
Let me experience it!

10. Tactile Learner Suggestions for Studying
• Trace letters of words with finger (to memorize spelling, for example)
• Use finger as a guide while reading material.
• Take, and type out or rewrite class notes.
• Get hands-on in science or computer labs, for example – don’t just watch someone else do it.
• Write out everything.
• Use models – of the human brain, DNA, etc.
• Draw charts or diagrams of relationships.