Learning Styles Flashcards
What are Learning Styles?
The way in which each learner begins to concentrate on, process, absorb and retain new and difficult information
Why is it useful to understand Learning Styles?
Understanding learning styles and those specific to students is vitally important to help tailor learning and be able to encourage and enable students to be able to achieve the best results possible as it pertains to them
What are the 7 learning styles (3 primary, 4 secondary)
Visual, physical, verbal, auditory, logical, social, solitary
What is a Visual learner?
Visual learners prefer to see things drawn out and like to see images and concepts and piece them together like this
What is a Physical (Kinesthetic) learner?
Physical learners like to be able to perform their tasks and experience the motions of the objective that they are trying to reach
What is a Verbal Learner?
Verbal learners enjoy reading, writing and like to verbalise information to help them process ideas and concepts
What is an auditory learner?
These learners like to listen to information and are often gifted musically
What is a logical learner?
These learners typically have a mathematical brain. To understand ideas they like to see them in categories or in a set order and like to work in a regimented structure.
What is a social learner?
Social learners often utilise verbal and non-verbal modes of communication and typically thrive when working in groups or having classroom wide discussions
What is a solitary learner?
They are more comfortable solving problems on their own. This doesn’t mean they are shy or anti-social, they just like to be left alone to find the perseverance to solve tasks.
How does this differ from cognitive style?
Cognitive style focuses more often on the students habitual mode of problem solving, thinking remembering.
It could be therefore be described as how they solve and store the problem internally within their own mental processes
Are there any criticisms of learning styles?
There isn’t enough cohesion/discussion between theorists and practitioners meaning that positives and criticisms of the approach and consideration.
There has also been an overflow of source information and external input which ultimately overwhelms any ability to string together cohesive thought
