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Author: Deanna Mascle
When I was in junior high and high school I really had to work hard to earn good grades. Then my freshman year in high school I made a marvelous discovery. I learned how to study.
I had been practising good study habits for years, but the problem was that the methods I had been taught
Discovering your own individual learning style can have just as dramatic an impact on your ability to learn. Chances are you already have some idea of what your learning style is, but many students simply blame themselves or their teachers for their failure to learn and/or succeed in the classroom. In truth the blame can often be placed on a mismatch of learning style and technique.
There are several different dimensions that impact each person's individual learning style (preferences for temperature, light, food intake, biorhythms, working with others, deep and surface approaches) but one of the primary factors is the way we process information -- both taking it in and giving it out.
There are five basic groups that most learners fall into:
~ Visual
~ Aural
~ Read/Write
~ Kinesthetic
~ Multimodal
Visual
Visual learners learn best by sight. They learn best from graphic elements such as pictures, videos, posters, slides, graphs, and charts. Color also ( Next Page )
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