The three main learning styles are:
- auditory
- visual
- kinesthetic
No-one uses one of the styles exclusively, and there is usually significant overlap in learning styles.
AUDITORY - (learn by listening)
- 30% of learners
- Learn from spoken instruction
- Written information has little meaning until it has been heard
- Write lightly and it is not always legible
- Talk while they write
- Remember names and forget faces
- Distracted by noise
- Remember by listening, especially with music
- May be good speakers, and specialize in law or politics
VISUAL - (learn by seeing and writing)
- 65% of learners
- Relate most effectively to written information, notes, diagrams, and pictures.
- Can be verbal (sees words) or pictorial (sees pictures)
- Remembers faces but not names
- Think in pictures, uses color
- Facial expression tells what their emotions are
- May be good writers, journalists, graphic design
KINESTHETIC- (Learn by doing)
- 5% of the population
- Remember what was done, not seen or talked about
- Doesn't "hear" things as well
- Learn through touch and movement in space
- Attacks things physically - fight, hit, pound
- Can appear slow because information is not normally presented in a way that suits their needs.
- Loves games