KNOWING YOUR

LEARNERS
What is a Learning Style?

 The way a learner perceives and processes

information in different ways
 Different ways that a person can learn or prefers
to learn
 The manner in which a learner perceives,
interacts with and responds to the learning
environment
 A preferential mode which a learner prefers to
use
 A habitual and distinct mode of acquiring
knowledge

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TEACHING STYLE

- Refers to the teaching strategies and methods

employed plus use of certain kind of rhetorics.
- Classified as either teacher-centered style or
learner centered style

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 Learning Style Distinguished
from Learning Strategy

Learning Strategy – is adopting a plan

of action or sets of action in the
acquisition of knowledge, skills and
attitudes in a learning environment.

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 LEARNING STYLES
1. The Visual Learning Preference
- They learn best through seeing.
They need to see the teacher’s body
language and facial expressions to
fully understand the lesson. They
prefer to sit in front to avoid visual
distractions. Visual learners like
demonstrations and remember faces
but not names of people. It would be
easier for them to take notes to
absorb information.
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2. The Auditory Learning Preference
They learn better through listening. These
learners enjoy lectures, discussions, talking things
through and listening to what others have to say. They
have the ability to interpret the underlying meanings of
speech through listening. They often benefit from
reading a text aloud. They find it difficult to work quietly
for long periods of time.

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3. The Kinesthetic Learning Preference
They gain more knowledge through moving,
doing and touching. It is advisable to give them hands-on
activities that would allow them to explore the physical
world around them. They would rather do than watch of
listen.

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4. The sensing/tactile learning
preference
This type of learner seeks immediate
relevant experiences in steps through the senses.
This learner is most interested in the concrete rather
than the abstract. Favorable activities for this type of
learner include acting out a song.

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5. The Group Learning Style Preference
Learners under this category learn
more easily when they study with at least
one other learner. Work is also more
successfully done and completed when
worked with others. Group interaction
and class work with other students are
valued information is remembered better
when working with two or three
classmates. This learning preference is
also referred to as social or interpersonal
learning preference

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6. The Individual learning style
preference

This kind of learners learn best when working

alone. They understand new material best when
learning it alone and make better progress in
learning when they work by themselves. This is
also referred to as the solitary or intrapersonal
learning preference.

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 Implication of Learning Styles
and Teaching Styles
Learning is not dependent on whether the
learner is smart or not, but it is all about the teacher
exerting effort to match the teaching style to the
learning style of the pupils and students to facilitate
learning.

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 Teaching Tips for Specific
Learning Styles
. The Visual Learner
textbooks, charts, course outlines and graphs are useful
instructional aids
Ask these students to write down information, even rewriting or
highlighting key points
Ask students to preview chapters by looking at subheadings and
illustrations
Seat these students in front

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The Kinesthetic Learner

- plan for student movement in class presentation

as well as independent study time
- Movement should be planned to avoid
destructing others
- Memorizing information can be enhanced if
these learners are encouraged to physically
move about the room
- Provide students with a colored transparency
to read a book.

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- Ask them to take notes and encourage them
to underline key points as read
- Encourage them to take frequent but short
breaks (i.e. light activities, ice breakers, and
the like)
- Try to use kits and role - plays to instructional
parts

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The Auditory Learner

- Provide opportunity to recite main points of a book or

lecture
- Encourage these learners to study with a friend
- Audiotapes in the classroom can be helpful
- Encourage them to read a book aloud
- It can be helpful for these learners to say out loud the
meaning of illustrations and main subject heading and
to recite new vocabulary words.

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 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

1. Verbal – Linguistic Intelligence

- involves a sensitivity to spoken and written
language and the ability to learn and use the
language.
2. Logical – Mathematical Intelligence
- involves the capacity to analyse problems, carry-
out mathematical operations and investigate
issues scientifically.

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3. Musical – Rhythmic Intelligence
- involves the skill in the performance, composition
and appreciation of music and rhythm.
4. Bodily – Kinesthetic Intelligence
- entails the potential of using one’s body or parts of
the body.
5. Visual – Spatial Intelligence
- entails the potential to recognize and
manipulate the patterns of wide space.

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6. Interpersonal Intelligence
- denotes a person’s capacity to understand the interests
and desires of other people.
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence
- denotes the capacity to understand one’s self.
8. Naturalist Intelligence
- the capacity to understand his physical
environment.

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