Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic - Learning style 2

 Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic 

 Learning style

Visual learner

Someone with this learning style performs best when given visual media to understand a concept. While this does not include still images or photographs, these may include maps, diagrams, graphs, charts, and through the use of symbols. For symbols, let’s take a closer look at our map. Right now it looks a little empty, but by adding symbols, shapes, and arrows, we can create reference points for our students to more clearly visualize where they are and where they need to go in order to get to the post office. 

Auditory learner

This type of learner does their best when learning from spoken sources such as lectures and group discussion, as well as digital audio sources such as radio or podcasts. Certain written media such as webchat and email could be grouped here as well since it is more commonly written in a non-formal way that is similar to speaking. Another way an auditory learner can learn more successfully is when they hear something someone has said, rearrange it in their own words, and then saying it out loud to confirm their understanding. A simple example could be if our student asks our teacher "what time is it?" The teacher might reply “half-past one”. In the student’s mind, he might rephrase it to “one thirty” since that is the way he would normally say it, and then ask his teacher to check if it is correct. The boy now has a full understanding of the information that the teacher gave to him by learning through speaking out loud, in his own way. To help our student learn how to get to the post office, he will be most successful if we provide clear verbal instructions and allow time in case he wants to confirm details of what we have said.read/write learner prefers information displayed in words. This is a common modality amongst teachers and students, and being able to read and write well is often a trait that is looked at when graduates are applying for jobs. Read/write learners do well with learning from lists, diaries, dictionaries, and from the internet, among others. By giving our students a written list of directions, they will be able to understand more easily how to get to the post office. 

Kinesthetic learner

These types of learners learn best through action. These can be either performed directly, observed, or through simulation, but what is essential is that it feels real; that there is a sense of reality or concrete nature to the example. In order to best learn how to get to the post office, our student might ask the teacher “What other shops are near the post office?” The teacher might reply “It is across the street from the coffee shop.” Our student then cycles through his memories and recalls a time he went to the coffee shop with his mother. Using this prior experience, the student begins to fit the pieces of the puzzle together and is able to figure out how to get to the post office. Although the teacher’s answer triggered the student’s memory, what the teacher said is less important in allowing the student to gain understanding. It was our student using that memory to recall where the coffee shop is and how to get there and then building upon that past experience to apply it to the new task of going to the post office. We’ve finally arrived at the post office, and as we can see all of our learners have arrived! While we all might learn differently, and have our own unique strengths, by adapting how we approach figuring out a task, we can all be successful together.