Active Learner• Teach it to someone else• Make flashcards• Apply active sorting of items or cards• Prepare a practice quiz• Cover and uncover notes• Study in a group• Design a game or dramatize the material• Draw on a white board using the entire arm• Pace and recite (add movement to meaning)• Experience the concept being learned (tours, exhibits,

labs)• Create “Split-page” notes/quiz

Do

Somethin

g !

Reflective Learner• Apply “mind talk” Ask questions, review & reword, think of examples• Paraphrase !• Use chunking How are ideas related?• Repetition of conceptWord variety, personalize examples• Summarize frequently• Create exam questions• Look for patterns arrange information in a way that makes sense to you

Think &

Reflect!

Sensing Learner• Connect Information With Specific Examples• Examine how concepts apply in practice• Ask for specifics• Use real life examples• Apply repetitionKeeping specific examples of the concepts in mind• Method of “Loci” memory techniqueUse a location that you know well & pair with ideas that you don’t know as

well

Real Life

Problem

Solve !

Intuitive Learner• Keep it Interesting! Make it Yours!• Look for relationshipsCreate T charts• Review your work Watch out for careless mistakes Read papers that you’ve written slowly and orally• Present information in a variety of waysWhite board, Discussions, Teach it, Study groups, Flashcards, Games,Split page notes, Practice quiz• Apply a variety of memory techniquesAcronyms…a word /each letter stands for a wordAcrostics….a sentence /each first letter is a clueRhyme keys…rap the information/set it to a beat/ add a number to a

word

Take

Ownership!

Visual Learner• View it in the “real world”• Utilize images….Graphic representationsGraphs, Charts, Diagrams, Photographs, Creative visual aids• Color-code notes• Mark up key points /Annotate textbooksBoxes, Circles, Arrows, Numbers, Underline, Colored ink• Mapping/ Clustering• Cartoons• Visual examples Films, Demonstrations, Online supplemental materials

SEEIt!

Verbal LearnerHEAR

It!•Summarize in your own words• Teach it to others• Recite it orally• Discuss with a group• Repeat• Outline• Tape record• Use vocal variety• Form a rap• Repetition

Sequential Learner• Place things in order• Outline• Group thingsNumber, Letter, Sort flashcards under major headings• Timelines• GraphicsFlow charts, Diagrams, Graphs• Annotate textbooksNumber and Letter key points

StepBy

Step !

Global Learner• Preview the information• Combine all of the steps into one conceptReverse taking the concept first and breaking it down into parts• Sort flashcards by topics• Skim to get an overview• Get specific examples Preview concepts• Mapping, Clustering, Graphics • Memory tricksAcronyms, Acrostics• Make ComparisonsRelate topics to things that you already know

Discover theBIG

PICTURE!

“How Do You Learn The Best?”

The way that a learner:

Takes in Information

ProcessesInformation

Organizes Information

Preferred Sensory Channel

Learning Style

Discussion• Thank you for participating in this module.• Please go to the Discussion Board and

respond to the prompt you will find there.