Learning Style and Intelligence

1. Learning Style and Intelligence Chapter 3

2. What is learning style?

3. Your learning style is your learning preference.How do you like tolearn?

4. Knowing about your learning style helps you to: • Be more productive at school and on the job • Increase achievement • Be more creative • Improve problem solving • Make better decisions • Learn more effectively

5. Learning Style • Visual • Auditory • Kinesthetic/Tactile

6. Learning Style Memory Exercise • 15 items will be passed around. Can you remember them?

7. How did you remember the items? Did you remember what you could see, feel, hear or touch? What is your strongest preference?

8. Learning Style Exercise: The Paper Airplane

9. What worked best for you? • Auditory • Visual • Or kinesthetic?

10. Visual Learners • Learn through seeing and reading • Prefer written directions • Often good readers

11. Visual Learners Learn Best With: • pictures • illustrations • photos • graphs • diagrams • maps

12. Visual Learning Techniques • Mental photograph or video • Flash cards • Highlighting • Draw pictures to remember • Use pictures or symbols in the margin to remember • Draw a map or outline

13. Auditory Learners • Learn through listening and talking • Remember what they hear better than what they see

14. Auditory Learners: • Prefer to listen to instructions • Often like to talk on the phone or listen to music • Learn best if they can hear and see the assignment

15. Auditory Learning Techniques • Discuss what you have learned withothers • Participate in study groups • Recite aloud • Teach others what you have learned • Use flash cards and say the items • Use music in the background if it does not distract you or use it as a break from studying

16. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners • Learn through doing • Remember hands on activities • Use their hands to build, create, plant, draw or decorate

17. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners: • Learn the assignment best by using physical activity

18. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learning Techniques • Read while walking or pacing • Study outside when practical • Take notes on lectures • Highlight or underline • Write summaries • Outline chapters • Think of practical applications

19. How does learning style affect career choice? For example, an architect would probably have a strong preference for visual learning. What would be the common learning preferences for most athletes?

20. Brainstorm: Learning Techniques • Four groups: • Auditory • Visual • Tactile/kinesthetic • Combination types • What learning techniques match these preferences? Write them on the board.