(04-01-10)+Learning+Styles+Essay-Written+by+Kieron+Edwards+(WC560)+NC

=__Learning Styles__=

What are learning styles? Put very simply learning styles are the ways in which different people absorb information and learn from that information. We all use our senses to gather information from the environment around us. However the way we do that varies between from person to person as not everyone learns the same way.The three most well know learning styles are **Visual**, **Auditory** and **Kinesthetic**.

The **Visual** learner finds it easier to take on board information through seeing. As the description suggests this kind of learner may struggle to take in information if they are just lectured to, so the use of items like a whiteboard or PowerPoint or visual guides like pictures, graphs and colours to assist in teaching will help them. An **Auditory** learner is better at understanding things through listening to information. An example of this would be if a person reads a page of information they may find it difficult to call to mind the information however if the same text was read to them they could understand and remember it. If a person is a **Kinesthetic** learner it is likely they will find it difficult to take in information through Visual and Auditory techniques only. This kind of person responds better through physically touching and doing things, so a good way to teach this kind of learner would be by building models, performing experiments or drawing pictures. Having taken two online tests I have established that I am a visual learner.

By taking the time to find out the way you learn best you are making big steps towards improving the way you absorb information and doing this will help you increase the knowledge you possess, once you know the best ways you learn it is then possible to take the opportunity to also recognize the weaker areas and try and improve them, this will help strengthen your overall learning. This will benefit you by increasing the efficiency of your learning and the more you know the more successful you will be in the work place and life itself. In groups, whether at work or in education, knowing the ways in which people in the team learn means that you can tailor your presentations to them and doing this increase the chances that they will listen, take in what you are saying and overall understand you.


 * Word Count = 560 / Written by Kieron Edwards / 4 January 2010**