LEARNING STYLES

What does the prefix aud mean?

• Audience

• Audio

• Auding

• Audible

• Audition

• Auditory

• auditorium

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SURVEY

• Please check the items that most accurately describe you or relate to how you most commonly approach things

• Then see which set of questions has the most checks and WAIT for further instructions

Visual Learners

• Make pictures or mental images to help them learn

• Like to represent material visually

• Eg.’s - pictures, diagrams, webs, graphic organizers

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

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Auditory Learner

• Enjoy and understand the oral or written word

• Learn best through listening, speaking, reading, discussing, and reading

• They prefer to give speeches, oral presentations and oral exams

Pianist: Ray Charles

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Kinesthetic Learners

• Prefer to express themselves and their ideas through movement

• They need to touch and do things.

• Learn best through hands-on activities, action, and manipulatives. (ie.objects)

Dancer: Mikhail Baryshnikov

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Baryshnikov

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ballet

• Guess their learning style?

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Singer: Stevie Wonder

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Illustrator: Norman Rockwell

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Kelly Clarkson

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Joe Mauer

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Pablo Picasso

Write a page about your learning style. What is it? How do you know? What are your needs as a learner?

Homework

• Ask three teachers or administrators what their learning styles are and how they study or learn best. Write this down.