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Learning Styles Kinesthetic Strategies

What is a Learning Style?

Information enters your brain three main ways: sight, hearing and touch, which
one you use the most is called your Learning Style
New Zealand-based teacher Neil D. Fleming is the originator of the VARK®, or
visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic classification
• Visual Learners learn by sight
• Auditory Learners learn by hearing
• Read/Write Learn by read and write
• Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) learn by touch

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Key words:
senses, practical exercises, examples, cases, trial and error.

Description:
This preference uses your experiences and the things that are real even when
they are shown in pictures and on screens.

If you have a strong preference for learning

by Kinesthetic methods (K = Kinesthetic) you should use some or
all of the following:

To take in the information:

 all your senses – sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing …
 laboratories
 field trips
 field tours
 examples of principles
 lecturers who give real-life examples
 applications
 hands-on approaches
 trial and error
 collections of rock types, plants, shells, grasses…
 exhibits, samples, photographs…
 recipes – solutions to problems, previous exam papers

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Study tips for Kinesthetic Learner

 Your lecture notes may be poor because the topics were not ‘concrete’ or
‘relevant’.
 You will remember the “real” things that happened.
 Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and
applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.
 Talk about your notes with another “K” person.
 Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea.
 Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual.
 Recall the experiments, field trip…
 Use practical/doing approach whenever possible.
 Do the different activities in the text book.
 Learn in a short blocks rather than in a stretched session.
 Try to Use role plays while studying.
 Use flash cards to memorize.
 Walk while studying.
 Hold the book in their hands while reading.
 Sit near the door or someplace else, where they can easily get up and move
around.

To perform well in examination:

 Write practice answers, paragraphs…
 Role play the exam situation in your own room.

This is YOU
 You learn best by doing.

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 You like to read along with walking or moving
 You Respond while practically doing things rather than listening/reading.
 You are generally good at sports/outdoor activities.
 You can't sit still for long.
 You are generally not good at spelling.
 You notice action & body moves in movies.
 You enjoy dancing while listening music.
 You tap a pencil/foot while studying.
 You like adventure books or movies.

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