Strategies for Using Your Learning Style Strength
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VISUAL LEARNER
The Visual learner listens best by seeing, visualizing, drawing, diagramming, etc.
In other words,
you “know something by seeing it.”
REMEMBER
: Good study habits are important for everyone, regardless of their preference.
These include:
• highlighting and study cards for textbook information,
• good lecture notes with a ‘recall’ column,
• frequent review,
• keeping up with assignments, etc.
“SEE IT to LEARN IT”
TEXT:
• As you read, highlight the important points – using different colors.
• Make study cards – using lots of color, symbols, and pictures for
memory.
• Get a mental image as you read – see the information, picture the page.
LECTURES:
• Sit up from to see the lecturer’s expressions
• As you listen, VISUALIZE what is being said.
• Take notes – use the ‘recall’ column for review, add colors, symbols,
etc.
• Read – Review – Visualize your notes frequently.
• If you have a learning disability, tape lectures to fill in the gaps later –
add color symbols and pictures.
STUDYING:
• READ it – WRITE it –
PICTURE
it.
• Draw diagrams,
illustrations, make charts.
• Learn and use Cognitive or Mind mapping techniques.
• View videotapes and slides when possible.
• VISUALIZE
• Write the procedures, steps, rules on cards and have them in front of
you as you use them.
GENERAL:
• Take classes that rely on TEXT for information.
Strategies for Using Your Learning Style Strength
http://www.ugresearchsci.ucla.edu/progpeers.htm
KINESTHETIC LEARNER
The kinesthetic
learner learns best by doing, through movement and physical activity, and by
using a “hands-on” approach.
REMEMBER:
Good study habits are important for everyone, regardless of their preference.
These include:
• highlighting and study cards for textbook information
• good lecture notes with a ‘recall’ column
• frequent review
• keeping up with assignments, etc.
“FEEL IT and DO IT to LEARN IT”
TEXTS:
• Move your fingers across
lines of text, or use a card as a marker to
underline the text.
• Point to headings, “trace” over pictures, graphs with your finger.
• MOVE as you review or summarize information – get up and walk
around or ‘act it out’
• WRITE to learn it: take notes, make cards, use symbols, etc.
• Use hands to gesture as you review cards or notes.
LECTURES:
• Be physically comfortable.
• Take notes; write to keep yourself involved.
• Put yourself in the scene that you are studying.
• Visualize the feel, texture, environment, smell of what is being
presented.
• Use different pens for different information – add color, symbols,
pictures.
STUDYING:
• READ it – WRITE it –
MOVE
it.
• Use lots of movement – talk with your hands,
change position and
location.
• Join study groups.
• Establish physical rituals for studying such as a location, supplies, etc.
• Picture where you were when you learned something.
GENERAL:
• Use technology when possible.