What is my style?

How do I use it?

Components of Learning

• Intake

• Processing

• Remembering

• Applying

Levels of Learning

• Rote

• Meaningful/Integrated

• Critical Thinking

• Sight (visual learning)

• Hearing (auditory learning)

• Touch (kinesthetic learning)

• Smell (sensory learning)

• Taste (sensory learning)

Intaking Information

Sight (visual learning)• Read (textbook, instructions, handouts)

• Watch (demonstration, film, model)

• Look (map, chart, diagram, outline, picture, color code)

Hearing (auditory learning)• Listen (lecture, audiotape, speaker)

• Talk (presentation, read aloud, teach, sing, word games)

• Repeat (oral instructions, rehearsal, rhymes)

• Discuss (small groups, one-on-one)

Touch (kinesthetic learning)• Hands on (model, design, build)

• Movement (hand signals, activities)

• Physical interaction (count fingers, take apart, make something operate)

Smell (sensory learning)

Taste (sensory learning)

Visual Learners• Find visual material

to support concepts

• Create concept maps

• Draw pictures to represent information

• Color code information

Verbal Learners• Write summaries in

your own words

• Work in groups / discuss with others

• Read aloud / tape record

Multi-Modal

• Combine several methods of intake.

• Data stored in different areas of the brain is more easily accessed later.

• Different modes enhance each other.

Brain DominanceLeft Brain• Analytical

• Logical, details / facts

• Linear / sequential

• Plan before action

• Thinks “in the box”

Right Brain• Global

• Process information as a whole

• Random, simultaneous

• Act on intuition

• Thinks “outside the box”

Environmental Factors

• Best time of day

• Best surroundings

• Best concentration

• Best energization