TOPIC 1: GETTING READY TO LEARN
Learning Style Inventory
Before you start studying or learning something new, you should know your learning style. How to know your learning style? Well there are several ways this can be done. For example, you can answer some questions about your ways of studies. Here's an example of me answering those question:
Scoring Your Inventory
By adding up your inventory, you can easily know your learning style. Your learning style would be the highest score that you get. If you have a high score in more than one area, that means you're using additional modalities.
CHARACTERISTICS OF VISUAL, AUDITORY, AND KINESTHETIC MODES
If your preferred style is visual, you have strong visualization skills and can remember objects, shapes, and pictures. You learn by reading, and by watching films, vidoes, and demonstrations. You can see pictures in your mind. Visual learners need to see information.
If your preferred style is auditory, you have a
“good ear” and can hear differences in tones and rhythm. Reading out loud will be beneficial.
You can remember what you hear in a lecture.
If your preferred style is auditory, you have a
“good ear” and can hear differences in tones and rhythm. Reading out loud will be beneficial.
You can remember what you hear in a lecture. Auditory learners need to hear information.
If your preferred style is
kinesthetic, you are a hands-on learner. You have good coordination and learn by doing. You
generally have an active approach to learning. Kinesthetic learners need to be physically active and doing things.
My personal learning style is Visual and Kinesthetic. This means i'm using additional modalities 😁
Using Multi-Sensory Learning
Visual learners:
• Create mind maps, flow charts, and diagrams using bright colors. Put them where you can view
them frequently.
• Practice building your visual memory.
• Rewrite your notes using different colors.
Auditory learners:
• After you read a page in your textbook, summarize the information out loud in your own
words.
• Tape your instructor’s lecture, and if you are a commuter, listen to the tape on the way home,
either in your car, or on the bus or subway.
• Discuss the material that you have been learning with a friend or study group.
Kinesthetic learners: • Use your hands. Cut up charts and diagrams. Create flash cards and move them around with
large, sweeping movements.
• Walk and talk the information. Recite as you move.
• Type on a computer keyboard. You are using your muscle memory.
8 STEPS TO VARSITY LEARNING
Changing from high school life to college life can sometimes be hard for some people. Some may even find it hard to focus on their studies as high school learning styles and college learning styles are different. With that being said, here are some steps you can use to adapt to college learning styles:
• Attend all classes
• Be an active learner
• Participate in class
• Get to know your lecturers
• Form study groups
• Stay up to date will all your works
• Be receptive to change
• Work hard
