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Learning Styles: VARK - Neil Fleming

The document discusses different learning styles models including VARK, which categorizes learners as visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic. It provides details on each of the VARK learning styles, including their characteristics and effective study strategies. The goal is to help students understand their own preferred learning style to identify effective study techniques and improve their learning outcomes.

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Learning Styles: VARK - Neil Fleming

The document discusses different learning styles models including VARK, which categorizes learners as visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic. It provides details on each of the VARK learning styles, including their characteristics and effective study strategies. The goal is to help students understand their own preferred learning style to identify effective study techniques and improve their learning outcomes.

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LEARNING STYLES

VARK – Neil Fleming


Mind Styles – Dr. Anthony Gregorc
Multiple Intelligence – Howard Gardner
GOALS OF THE UNIT…

• To understand the different learning styles

• To identify your individual learning preferences

• To identify study techniques based on your learning preference


VARK Notes
How do you learn best? • when a teacher lectures?
• when a teacher writes on the board?
• from a textbook?
• working together in a group?

• Developed in 1987 by Neil Flemming


VARK (Acronym) • Represents four types of learning styles:
V-isual
A- ural/Oral (British)
R -ead/Write
K –inesthetic

Why VARK is important Understanding how you learn helps to define how
you should study.
VARK
V = Visual • Learners who have a preference for viewing
information in terms of graphic images.

Visual Learners rely on:


• - Maps (traditional, GPS)
• Outlines
• Diagrams
• Charts & graphs
• Designs & patterns

Does NOT include: • movies, videos or PowerPoint.

Strategies/ Tips: • Practice transferring words into...


(Ex): times-lines, Venn-Diagrams, character charts.

• Use color in your notes… (Ex): highlighter


VARK
A = Aural • Prefer information "heard or spoken”
(Auditory)

Learn best from: • - listening to lectures and presentations,


– watching tutorials,
– debates
– tapes,
– group discussion,
– email, and texting
– Discussing concepts and talking things through
– (includes talking out loud to yourself!)

Strategies/ tips: • Study out loud with others, verbally quiz


yourself, and write down your thoughts
VARK
R = Read/ Write • Prefer information displayed as words;
• Reading and writing of all forms (academic skills)

Drawn to: • -- PowerPoint,


– the internet,
– lists,
– books, magazines, journals
– dictionaries and thesauri
– Quotations and words, words, words...

Strategies/ tips: • Re-write your notes longhand without symbols


and abbreviations.
• Write out the main point of diagrams in words.
• Make flash cards with lots of info and vocab.
VARK
K = Kinesthetic • Preference to experience, move, touch, and do…
(5-senses)

• Connect through personal experiences, real-life


examples, practice and hand-on.

Includes: – demonstrations,
– simulations,
– videos and movies of "real" things,
– Role-play.
– Field Trips
INTERESTING NUGGETS…
• Q: Are there differences in the VARK preferences of men and
women?

• A: Yes, Men have more Kinesthetic responses, Women score higher in


read/write responses.

• Q: Does knowing about your learning style contribute to improved learning?

• A: No. Think: Does knowing you have a disease cure the disease? …

Weighting yourself does not fix obesity. It is the next step that is important.
When people make changes to their learning based on their VARK preference, only
then will their learning will be enhanced. They do this by using strategies that align
with their preferences. It is what you do AFTER you learn of your preference that
has the potential to make a difference.
Journal Entry

Put your knowledge into practice. Take a current homework


assignment, or one that you can predict you will have, and write
out how you will complete this assignment utilizing your learning
style preference.

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