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The document discusses different learning styles - visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing. It describes the key characteristics of each style and how students with those styles learn best. Visual learners prefer visual aids like diagrams and charts. Auditory learners learn through listening and speaking. Kinesthetic learners prefer hands-on experience. Reading/writing learners absorb information through written text. Teachers should present material in ways tailored to students' predominant learning styles.

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Types of Learning

The document discusses different learning styles - visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing. It describes the key characteristics of each style and how students with those styles learn best. Visual learners prefer visual aids like diagrams and charts. Auditory learners learn through listening and speaking. Kinesthetic learners prefer hands-on experience. Reading/writing learners absorb information through written text. Teachers should present material in ways tailored to students' predominant learning styles.

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Every student has a strategy they use to remember information more efficiently while

studying. Some of them take notes; some make diagrams; some prefer to listen to
lectures, etc. Since no learning style fits all students, scientists have conducted
research in order to understand the way students learn new information best.

Let’s look at the different types of learning they have distinguished.

What Are the Main Four Types of Learning in Education?

We mentioned before that scientists have for years tried to understand the best ways
students learn through research. One of the popular theories, to this day, is the VARK
model. This model identifies four types of learners: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and
reading/writing.

Most people are a combination of these four styles, but more times than not, they have
a predominant style of learning. Each of these styles has a complementary way of
teaching. Now, let’s see the characteristics each of these styles entails and how best to
make use of them.

Visual learning style

Visual learners are individuals who prefer to take in their information visually—be that
with maps, graphs, diagrams, charts, and others. However, they don’t necessarily
respond well to photos or videos, rather needing their information using different visual
aids such as patterns and shapes.

The best way to present to visual learners is by showing them the relationship between
different ideas visually. For instance, when explaining a scientific process, it can be
done by using a flow chart.

Auditory learning style

Auditory learners are individuals who learn better when they take in information in
auditory form when it is heard or spoken. They are prone to sorting their ideas after
speaking, rather than thinking ideas through before. Since, to them, saying things out
loud helps them understand the concept.

Auditory learners learn best when information is presented to them via strategies that
involve talking, such as lectures and group discussions. They can benefit from repeating
back the lessons, having recordings of the lectures, group activities that require
classmates explaining ideas, etc.

Kinesthetic learning style


Kinesthetic learners are individuals who prefer to learn by doing. They enjoy a hands-on
experience. They are usually more in touch with reality and more connected to it, which
is why they require using tactile experience to understand something better.

The best way to present new information to a kinesthetic learner is through personal
experience, practice, examples, or simulations. For instance, they can remember an
experiment by recreating it themselves.

Reading/Writing

Reading/writing learners consume information best when it’s in words, whether that’s by
writing it down or reading it. To them, text is more powerful than any kind of visual or
auditory representation of an idea. These individuals usually perform very well on
written assignments.

There are different ways to get a reading/writing learner to engage and understand a
certain lesson. For instance, it would be best to have them describe charts and
diagrams by written statements, take written quizzes on the topics, or give them written
assignments.

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