Learning Styles: What’s Your Preference?

1. Learning Styles: What’s Your Preference?

2. Presentation Overview • Define perceptual learning styles • Describe characteristics of learning styles • Identify suggestions for students • Identify suggestions for educators • Results from study

3. Learning Style A biologically and developmentally imposed set of personal characteristics that make the same teaching methods effective for some and ineffective for others

4. Perceptual Learning Styles • Auditory • Haptic • Visual

5. Characteristics of Auditory Learners • Read aloud • Discuss things for better understanding • Prefer hearing a lecture • Easily follow a speaker • Hard to picture things • Prefer to do oral reports

6. Characteristics of Haptic Learners • Study better with music • Need frequent breaks • Move around when studying • Use fingers to count • Dislike proofreading • Daydream • Prefer projects

7. Characteristics of Visual Learners • Remember if write down • Visualize pictures in head • Take many notes • Look at person speaking • Understand map, charts and graphs • Can “see” notes when testing

8. Suggestions for Auditory Learners • Study with someone • Read and recite aloud • Record lectures and notes

9. Suggestions for Haptic Learners • Study on stomach or back • Take frequent breaks • Bounce leg or squeeze ball • Walk around while reciting • Use a stationary bike

10. Suggestions for Visual Learners • Write things down • Study alone • Copy notes • Use color • Select seat away from doors

11. Suggestions for Educators • Utilize variety of instructional methods • Create awareness in students • http://www.vark-learn.com/ • Be aware of characteristics

12. Recent Study of Freshmen • Support program • Varied backgrounds • Investigate • Preferred learning style • Differences in learning style based on race • Differences in learning style based on gender

13. Learning Channel Preference Checklist • Lynn O’Brien • Self-reporting questionnaire • Thirty-six items • 5-point Likert scale • Three perceptual learning styles

14. Preferred Learning Style

15. Learning Style by Race

16. Learning Style by Gender

17. Questions?