Learning Styles
All learners, children and adults, have preferences for how they best learn and retain information. Essentially everyone shares some aspects of these preferences:
- Visual preference
- Kinesthetic preference
- Auditory preference.
Learners get the most out of any learning activity by maximizing their preferred learning style.
Characteristics of Kinesthetic Learners:
- Move / fidget a lot
- Very tactile... touch everything,
- Like to take things apart and experiment
- Have difficulty visualizing
- Point and gesture when speaking
Characteristics of Visual Learners
- Need to see the big picture before working on specifics
- Respond to visual stimulus like maps, pictures, video
- Like show and tell
- Prefer written step by step directions
- Need to be shown "How" in order to understand
Characteristics of Auditory Learners
- Learn well in traditional teach centered classrooms
- Learn well from using rhyming patterns
- Prefer talking and discussion to writing and reading
- Have difficulty visualizing
- Good at remember the content of discussions
