Learning Styles

​Learning style inventories are designed to help students determine which learning style they have. These inventories typically take the form of a questionnaire that focuses on how students prefer to learn. Students choose the answers that most closely resemble their own preferences. Discover your learning style and find out how it influences the way you understand information and solve problems.

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​What's your Learning Style?

​Part 1: What's Your Learning Style                                         

Complete the Educational Planner learning style assessment, Click on the link on the next page or below.  

After completing the Educational Planner learning style assessment, http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml, complete this Quizizz.

What's Your Learning Style? 20 Questions

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What's your style?

• AUDITORY

• VISUAL

• TACTILE

​About the Three Styles

​If your are a VISUAL learner, then by all means be sure that you look at all study materials. Use charts, maps, filmstrips, notes and flashcards. Practice visualizing or picturing words/concepts in your head. Write out everything for frequent and quick visual review.

​Here are some things that visual learners like you can do to learn better:
- Sit near the front of the classroom. (It won't mean you're the teacher's pet!)
- Have your eyesight checked on a regular basis.
- Use flashcards to learn new words.
- Try to visualize things that you hear or things that are read to you.
- Write down key words, ideas, or instructions.
- Draw pictures to help explain new concepts and then explain the pictures.
- Color code things.
- Avoid distractions during study times.

If you are an AUDITORY learner, you may wish to use tapes. Tape lectures to help you fill in the gaps in your notes. But do listen and take notes, reviewing notes frequently. Sit in the lecture hall or classroom where you can hear well. After you have read something, summarize it and recite it aloud.

​Here are some things that auditory learners like you can do to learn better.
- Sit where you can hear.
- Have your hearing checked on a regular basis.
- Use flashcards to learn new words; read them out loud.
- Read stories, assignments, or directions out loud.
- Record yourself spelling words and then listen to the recording.
- Have test questions read to you out loud.
- Study new material by reading it out loud.

​If you are a TACTILE learner, trace words as you are saying them. Facts that must be learned should be written several times. Keep a supply of scratch paper for this purpose. Taking and keeping lecture notes will be very important. Make study sheets.

Here are some things that tactile learners like you can do to learn better:
- Participate in activities that involve touching, building, moving, or drawing.
- Do lots of hands-on activities like completing art projects, taking walks, or acting

out stories.
- It's OK to chew gum, walk around, or rock in a chair while reading or studying.
- Use flashcards and arrange them in groups to show relationships between ideas.
- Trace words with your finger to learn spelling (finger spelling).
- Take frequent breaks during reading or studying periods (frequent, but not long).
- It's OK to tap a pencil, shake your foot, or hold on to something while learning.
- Use a computer to reinforce learning through the sense of touch.

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Things to keep in mind:

Remember that you need to SEE things, not just hear things, to learn well.

Remember that you need to HEAR things, not just see things, in order to learn well.

Remember that you learn best by DOING, not just by reading, seeing, or hearing