Learning Styles
Learning styles are a way that you learn. It was best put by Ellis in 1985 “a learning style is more or less consistent way in which a person perceives, conceptualizes, organizes and recalls information.”There are many different types of learning style but I am only going to focus on 4. The four main learning styles I am going to discuses are Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic and Verbal.
Visual Learner
Visual learners are people that you best work and learn with the likes of videos and diagrams. You can tell if you are a visual learner if you were asked to learn something and you were given a choice on how to do it, if you would rather look at a flow diagram or spider diagram of everything else you are a visual learner.
Auditory Learner
Auditory Learners learn better by listening to things. This could mean they would listen to podcasts often and enjoy learning that way. One thing about auditory learners is that they can remember important details from a conversation. They are usually musically talented as they can pick out tones in the music.
Kinesthetic Learner
Kinesthetic learners are those who learn best from doing things and getting involved. They would rather get in and do it for themselves, this would mean if they wanted to know how to drive they would much rather get in the car and do it than listen to someone giving them advice. One way for you to get an indication to whether you are a kinesthetic learner or not is if you fidget of move your feet when sitting down.
Verbal Learner
A verbal learner is someone who best learns by reading and writing. You will find that Verbal learners will write out key points for an exam before and read over them many time as this is how the information is best remembered for those tips of people.
My preferred learning style
I have done a few tests on the Internet to find out what my learning style is. In many I have found that I am a kinesthetic learner, as I have said before this means that I learn best by actually getting involved and doing things for myself. Now knowing how to tell what sort of a learner you are you will most likely be able to tell without having to do any sort of test. For example now if I think about the way I learn for instance at the tech, my course consists of various types of software programs such as Photoshop and flash, the lectures do a bit of everything just to suit all kinds of learner but the methods that I find easy to remember are the practical bits like actually getting on Photoshop and designing a poster or whatever it happens to be.
Another sign that I can now see is that I tend to shake my legs of fidget about, I cant really help this and most times I don’t even know I am doing it until someone points out.
Why is it best to know you're learning style?
Knowing your learning style is very important especially if you are still in school. It is important as it makes it easier for you when it comes to exams or just wanting to remember things as you can suit things around what you want. For example in my case when I’m learning Photoshop I can take the notes the lecturer has given out and put them into practise even if she doesn't go over the practical in class as this will help me to understand how it is done.
It is also good to tell your teacher or lecturer what sort of learner you are as he/she may spend more time on practical if you are a kinesthetiic learner like me or she could hand out more diagrams if you are a visual learner.
Find You're Learning Style
If you still don’t really know what sort of a learner you are you can take a quiz in the link below.
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