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Discovering How You Learn

Discovering How You Learn. The VARK Learning Styles Inventory. VARK Inventory focuses on how learners prefer to use their senses Knowing your VARK score can help you develop your own study strategies and do better in college Visual

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Discovering How You Learn

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  1. Discovering How You Learn

  2. The VARK Learning Styles Inventory • VARK Inventory focuses on how learners prefer to use their senses • Knowing your VARK score can help you develop your own study strategies and do better in college • Visual • Prefer to learn information through charts, graphs, other visual means • Aural • Prefer to hear information • Read/Write • Prefer to learn information displayed as words • Kinesthetic • Prefer to learn through experience and practice

  3. Complete the VARK Questionnaire Visual – Aural – Read/Write - Kinesthetic

  4. The Kolb Inventory of Learning Styles • Focuses on abilities we need to develop in order to learn • Effective learners need four kinds of abilities: • Concrete experience • Reflective observation • Abstract conceptualization • Active experimentation • Opposite styles of learning: Abstract-concrete and Active-reflective • Four discrete group of learners: • Divergers, assimilators, convergers, and accommodators

  5. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator • Represents a “psychological type” on the combination of four different scales • Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I) • Indicates where you direct your energy and attention • Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N) • Indicates how you perceive the world and take in information • Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F) • Indicates how you prefer to make your decisions • Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P) • Indicates how you characteristically approach the outside world

  6. Multiple Intelligences • Theory of multiple intelligences developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner • Proposes eight different intelligences to describe how humans learn • Verbal/Linguistic • Logical/Mathematical • Visual/Spatial • Bodily/Kinesthetic • Musical/Rhythmic • Interpersonal • Intrapersonal • Naturalist

  7. Complete the Multiple Intelligences Inventory

  8. When Learning Styles and Teaching Styles Conflict • Instructors tend to teach in ways that conform to their own styles of learning • When you recognize a mismatch between how you best learn and how you are being taught • Take control of your learning process • Don’t depend on your instructor • Employ your own preferences, talents, and abilities to study and retain information

  9. Learning with a Disability • Different learning disabilities affect people’s ability to interpret what they see and hear • Attention disorders • Daydream excessively, easily distracted • ADD, ADHD • Cognitive learning disabilities • Dyslexia—a developmental reading disorder • Learning disabilities are not related to intelligence

  10. Tech Tip: Branch Out • Finding ways to adapt to teaching techniques that lie outside your comfort zone • For auditory learners • Read your notes and textbook passages aloud as you study • For visual learners • Take notes and illustrate them • For hands-on learners • Build models or spreadsheets, take fieldtrips to gather experience

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