LEARNING STYLES UTILIZE

YOUR POTENTIAL
about learning styles and how
to use yourself in the most
efficient way
WHAT IS LEARING STYLES?
Learning styles are the way in which
each individual learner begins to
concentrate on, process, absorb, and
retain new and difficult information.
Learning styles, thus, are the most
important tool for us when we
construct knowledge.
If learning is fundamental
to everything we do, then
understanding ones
unique learning style
is fundamental
to learning.
Ancient Egyptians
believed the heart was
the center of
intelligence and
emotion. They also
thought so little of
the brain that during
mummification, they
removed the brain
entirely from bodies.
 Environmental Elements

Sound Light Temperature Seating

Do you Do you study Do you Do you

concentrate or work best concentrate concentrate
best with when when and stay best when
sound in the the lights focused sitting at a
background are bright longer desk with
or a in quiet or softly when the a straight-
environment? illuminated temperature backed
and indirect? chair or
is warmer more
or cooler? informal
seating?
 Emotional Elements

Motivation Persistence Conformity Structure

Positive Do you prefer Do you prefer Do you like

feedback completing to do things others to
from others one task the way you provide
(externally before think they procedures
motivated) beginning should be for you to
another? done? follow?
Positive
feedback Do you prefer Do you prefer Do you
from yourself to work on to do things prefer
(internally several tasks the way to create
motivated) at the same others think your own
time? they should procedures?
be done?
 Sociological Elements

Team Interaction Authority Variety

Are you more Do you work Do you prefer

productive when well with a routine work
you work alone person who using proven
or with one other is an expert methods?
person, in a small in his field?
group of 3 people, Do you
or in a large team? Are you less become bored
effective when when you
someone is have to do the
looking over same thing
your shoulder over and
when you work over?
or study?
 Physiological Elements

Time of Day Intake Mobility

At what time of day Do you focus When you

are you most effective your attention stay in one
and efficient: best when you place for
snack while you too long, do
Early Morning? work or study or you become
snack after you restless and
Late Morning/
are finished? fidgety?
Early Afternoon?

Late Afternoon?
Evening?
I think that only
daring speculation
can lead us further
and not accumulation
of facts.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955
 Perceptual Elements

Visual Visual Tactile and/or

Auditory Verbal
Picture Text Kinesthetic
Learners Learners
Learners Learners Learners

Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember

best when best when best when best by best when
they LISTEN they SEE they READ DOING they
to a lecture, a (create) the written rather than DISCUSS
presentation, mental word sitting and with others
or an images (textbooks, listening, the new
audiotape. of what memos, reading, and complex
they hear and e-mail or thinking information
or read. messages). about the they are
information. learning.
 Analytic / Global

ANALYTICS

assimilate and process

information best when it is
presented sequentially and
the information builds
toward a conceptual
understanding.
GLOBALS
assimilate and
process information
best when humor and
metaphors are used and
they need to understand

the concept before the

details make sense.
 Analytic / Global

INTEGRATED
PROCESSORS

use both the Analytic

and Global dimensions
interchangeably. Persons
with this preference often
take on the role of an
interpreter because they
can easily translate what
the Analytics and Globals
are saying.
 Reflective / Impulsive

Reflective learners Impulsive learners

take time to weigh prefer less detail when
their options before making decisions and
making decisions solving problems.
and solving problems.

When taken to When taken to

the extreme, this the extreme, impulsive
approach leads to people want others to
analysis paralysis! be brief, be bright,
and be gone!
I used to be
indecisive
but now Im
not so sure.

Boscoe Pertwee
18th century writer
 LEARNING STYLE:

Your Brain Has A Mind of Its Own!