VAK learning styles

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VAK learning styles
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Purpose

• To help students understand their preferred
  personal learning styles and enable them to
  choose the types of learning that work best for
  them.
• To develop students involvement in learning.
• To provide teachers with knowledge of students
• strengths as an entry point for class
• instructions.

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Visual learners
Show Me!
Lets have a look at that!

• Learn best from information they
• see or read.
• Examples illustrations, pictures, diagrams,
• demonstrations, displays, handouts, films and
• flip-charts.
• Able to perform a new task after reading the
  instructions or watching others doing the task
  first.
• Work by reading lists and written
• directions.

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Auditory learners
Tell me!
Lets talk it over!

• Prefer to learn by listening
• and often recall the words
• they have heard in their mind.
• Absorb spoken and heard
• material easily and like being
• involved in aural questioning
• rather than reading materials.
• Prefer listening to lectures,
• stories and songs.

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Auditory learners
Tell me!
Lets talk it over!

• Enjoy variations in rhythm,
• pitch and voice inflection.
• Prefer discussing and
• communicating with other
• classmates.
• Able to perform a new task
• best after listening to the
• instructions given by the
• teachers.

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Kinesthetic learners
Let me try!
How do you feel?

• Acquire their knowledge best
• by doing and moving.
• Love moving around frequently
• and building things with their hands.
• Able to perform a new task
• best by going ahead and
• trying it out, learning as
• they go.
• Prefer experiments and
• hands-on experience.

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S1 Personal learning styles (VAK) 2008-2009
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Visual Style
Auditory Style
Kinesthetic Style