By recognizing and understanding your own learning styles, you can use techniques better suited to you. This improves the speed and quality of your learning.
Learning Styles
Many people recognize that each person prefers different learning styles and techniques. Everyone has a mix of learning styles. Some people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, with far less use of the other styles. Others may find that they use different styles in different circumstances. There is no right mix.
Your learning styles have more influence than you may realize. Your preferred styles guide the way you learn. They also change the way you internally represent experiences, the way you recall information, and even the words you choose.
Using multiple learning styles and multiple intelligences for learning is a relatively new approach. This approach is one that educators have only recently started to recognize. Traditional schooling used (and continues to use) mainly linguistic and logical teaching methods.
By recognizing and understanding your own learning styles, you can use techniques better suited to you. This improves the speed and quality of your learning.
The Learning Styles
- Visual (spatial):
- You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
- Aural (auditory-musical):
- You prefer using sound and music.
- Verbal (linguistic):
- You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.
- Physical (kinesthetic):
- You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.
- Logical (mathematical):
- You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.
- Social (interpersonal):
- You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.
- Solitary (intrapersonal):
- You prefer to work alone and use self-study.
