8 Learning Styles

1. 8 Learning Styles

2. Verbal/Linguistic • Definition • Verbal/Linguistic – related to words and language • Characteristics • Likes to read books • Listens to and gives oral presentations • Communicates through written and oral messages • Likes discussions and debates • Likes to explain things • How does this person learn best? • Saying, hearing, and seeing words 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

3. Logical/Mathematical • Definition • Logical/Mathematical – reasoned, precise, accurate • Characteristics • Likes to conduct experiments • Likes to work with numbers • Likes to explore patterns and relationships • Good at math, problem solving, and reasoning • How does this person learn best? • Categorizing, classifying, and working with patterns and relationships 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

4. Bodily/Kinesthetic • Definition • Physical activity and movement and awareness through sensory perception – hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling • Characteristics • Likes to move around, touch, talk, and use body language • Good at sports, dancing, gymnastics, and crafts • How does this person learn best? • By touching, moving, interacting with space and processing knowledge through bodily sensations 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

5. Visual/Spatial • Definition • Mental images, seeing, sight • Characteristics • Likes to draw, build, design, and create • Daydreamer and imaginative • Watches movies and plays computer games • Good at sensing changes • Good at puzzles and mazes and reading charts and graphs • How does this person learn best? • By visualizing, dreaming, and using colors and pictures 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

6. Musical/Rhythmic • Definition • Sound arranged in patterns, tone, and pitch through music, poetry, color, painting, and photography • Characteristics • Likes to sing, hum tunes, listen to music, play an instrument • Good at picking up sounds, remembering melodies, noticing pitch, rhythm, and patterns • Good at keeping time • How does this person learn best? • Through rhythm, melody, and music 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

7. Interpersonal • Definition • Related to relationships with other people • Characteristics • Has lots of friends, likes to talk and join groups • Good at understanding people • Good at communicating • Good at mediation (resolving conflict) • How does this person learn best? • Sharing with others, collaborative groups, and teaching others 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

8. Intrapersonal • Definition • Within self • Characteristics • Likes to work alone • Reflective and self-aware • Instinctual • Original • How does this person learn best? • Working alone, individualized projects, and self-paced instruction 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

9. Naturalistic • Definition • Related to nature and the environment • Characteristics • Likes to work outside • Enjoys geography, weather, learning about the environment • Good at categorizing, organizing, planning, • Interested in preservation and conservation • Likes to work with animals • How does this person learn best? • By studying nature’s patterns, such as erosion and climate, learning how things work, and cause and effect relationships 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.