Leaders tend to teach in the style they use to learn. Copyright © 2005 Insight Christian Ministries All Rights Reserved Test your knowledge first? Start.

Leaders tend to teach in theLeaders tend to teach in thestyle they use to learn. style they use to learn.

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Click on each style for a brief description.Click on each style for a brief description.

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• About Styles

• • Examples by Examples by Style

• Discover Others’ Styles

Try the pre-test?

On a rainy afternoon, would you rather watch a movie or video? read a book? play a board game with someone? walk in the rain? write e-mails or a letter?

In learning new material, would you rather hear a lecture on the topic? read the material alone? take notes as you study the material? listen to music as you study? talk about it with a small group?

Your choices offerYour choices offer clues about your clues about your learning style.learning style.


• About Styles



• Most people have two or three preferred learning styles. You use these most frequently.

• You can develop a new teaching-learning style.

For example, many people develop the ability to learn through lecture (a LOGICAL learning method), because it is commonly used in business, training workshops, worship, and in other areas of life.


• About Styles



• Many leaders stay in their comfort zone and teach the way they learn.

• This leaves learners adjusting to the leader, rather than the leader engaging learners where the learner feels comfortable.

• Often leaders assume everyone learns in the same way they do.


• About Styles



• Watch what a person does during leisure time.• Inside activity • Outside activity• Active • Quiet• Alone • With others

• Notice how the person delivers information.• Draws pictures • Writes out directions• Quick & to the point • In elaborate detail• Stands or sits still • Talks with the hands

Want to know what another’s learning style is?


• About Styles



• Watch how a person takes in information.• Listens politely • Prefers solitude

• Asks questions • Doodles or stares off

• Prefers noisy environment• Repeats information verbally

Want to know what another’s learning style is?


• About Styles



• LOGICALLOGICAL––Change several facts in a familiar Bible story. Hand out the story , directing learners to correct the wrong facts. (As an example, In those days Caesar Antichrist issued a degree that a census. . . .) Let them compare their corrections to the story in the Bible.

• MUSICALMUSICAL––Direct learners to write new lyrics to a familiar Christian chorus or hymn tune using themes from the session’s Bible study.

See how each learning style relates to a teaching method.


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• NATURALNATURAL––Show a nature video, with the audio turned off, as you read Genesis 1 aloud.

• REFLECTIVEREFLECTIVE––Tell learners to complete open-ended statements by supplying their own feelings and thoughts. (As an example, If I had been the blind man Jesus healed, I would have . . . )

• RELATIONALRELATIONAL––Direct learners to work in small teams to plan and carry out person-on-the-street interviews with witnesses of Jesus’ resurrection.


• About Styles



• VERBALVERBAL––Read a familiar Bible story adding in cheers, boos, and hisses at appropriate places in the story.

• VISUALVISUAL––Use flimsy paper plates to create masks. Direct learners to use one side to express how they feel the world sees them and the other side to express how they really think they are. Let students walk around reading each others’ masks with first one side and then the other displayed.


• About Styles



• Logical learners like to solve problems.

• Logical learners prefer to do their own research.

• Logical learners are good at organizing.

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• Musical learners usually have a good sense of rhythm and pitch.

• Musical learners feel the emotions of music.

• Musical learners may listen to music while doing other activities.


• Natural learners feel most comfortable Natural learners feel most comfortable outside.outside.

• Natural learners excel in the sciences.Natural learners excel in the sciences.

• Natural learners see beauty even in the Natural learners see beauty even in the destructive side of nature.destructive side of nature.


• Reflective learners prefer to learn alone.

• Reflective learners are usually self-motivated.

• When reflective learners share, their ideas are usually unique.


• Relational learners like group learning activities.

• Relational learners are good communi-cators, often using expressive body language.

• Relational learners work well with others.


• Verbal learners gain information through hearing.

• Verbal learners hear words in their minds.

• Verbal learners like word games.


• Visual learners learn best by seeing.Visual learners learn best by seeing.

• When reading or hearing about an When reading or hearing about an event, visual learners see mental event, visual learners see mental images.images.

• Visual learners enjoy films, tables or Visual learners enjoy films, tables or charts, jigsaw puzzles, and cartoons.charts, jigsaw puzzles, and cartoons.


1. True / False – Leaders tend to teach in the style that their learners learn.

2. There are _______ teaching-learning styles.

3. Most people have ________ teaching-learning styles.

4. You can determine a person’s learning style by __________________.

5. True / False – For the VISUAL learner, use rhymes and word games.

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