Learning Styles Introduction to How you Learn Best

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Learning Styles Introduction to How you Learn
Best
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Overview

• Introduction
• Visual
• Auditory
• Tactile/Kinesthetic
• Reading/Writing
• Strategies
• Internship
• Review

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Introduction

• This PowerPoints will give you the four basic
  learning style types.
• These are ways that your mind pick up information
  the best.
• Every person has one way that they learn from the
  best.
• There is more than one strategy that a person may
  be good at, but their learning style should be
  only one of the four.

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Visual

• Visual learners tend to take in more information
  when they can see it.
• This could mean seeing information as charts,
  graphs, pictures, etc.
• A visual learner can learn more if they turn
  other pieces of information into visual images.

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Auditory

• Auditory learners learn more when they hear
  information.
• Examples of auditory learner include lectures,
  discussions, music, and movies.
• They tend to remember information that is
  verbally repeated, can remember more of what they
  read when they read it out loud, and remember a
  task that is explained to them.

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Tactile/Kinesthetic

• Tactile/Kinesthetic learners retain more
  information if they actively engage it. This
  means that they often have to perform a task
  before they understand it.
• They learn more if they perform an example,
  participate in a simulation, or practice an
  activity multiple times.
• These students often have the most challenges in
  school because school is often not an active
  learning environment.

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Reading/Writing

• These learners retain more information when it is
  in written or spoken word format.
• Reading/Writing learners pick up a lot of
  information from in-class notes written on the
  board, a PowerPoint, or through reading through a
  manual/book.

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Strategies

• Visual
• Change words into symbols.
• Transform concepts into pictures.
• Underline and highlight key words.
• Auditory -
• Attend lectures or ask for spoken explanation.
• Participate in discussions.
• Listen to notes on tapes.
• Talk or read out loud.

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Strategies

• Tactile/Kinesthetic
• Copy key points on chalk board or dry erase
  boards.
• Listen to notes while doing an active task.
• Put real life examples into notes.
• Recall experiments and role playing.
• Reading/Writing
• Write information repeatedly.
• Read notes silently.
• Organize diagrams or pictures into statements.
• Make flashcards.

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Review

• Which learning style is?
• Working in a lab?
• Listening to a speaker?
• Looking at a diagram to build a book shelf?
• Reading a cookbook to make dinner?