Remember Anything

If you look around at the people around you, whether you are in a classroom, workroom, or living room, you can notice that each and every person has a different way of learning. Learning styles help classify the different ways that people learn into seven distinct styles. Even though everyone has a mix of the styles some people may discover that they have a primary style of learning, and use less of any other type. Some other people may find that they use different types of styles under different circumstances. Just know that there is not a “right” mix, and the types of learning styles you use are constantly changing as you age and experience new things.

You have the ability to develop some styles constantly. This is a relatively new approach—using multiple learning styles instead of just a single style—and strangely is something that educators have only recently started to realize. Most schools around the globe use a linguistic and logical teaching method. By doing so they are also using a limited range of learning techniques. Most classrooms use book-centered teaching with a lot of repetition and tedious exams to reinforce the material. The people who favor these kinds of learning styles are placed into advanced classes and the students who are not as adept at these particular learning styles are placed into lower classes. Many of these children find themselves being made fun of and are also subject to a lower quality of education. These effects can reinforce certain beliefs that a person is either smart or dumb.

If you can understand your own learning style then you can use techniques that will best suit your needs, and that will help you grasp the knowledge more efficiently. The seven learning styles are: Visual, where you enjoy pictures, images, and spatial understanding; aural, where you prefer hearing sounds and music; physical, where you excel when using your body and sense of touch. Verbal involves words—both speech and writing. Solitary learning is where you will work better alone while social learning allows you to excel at group work. Finally there is logical learning, where you use reasoning to your advantage.

The Learning Style Inventory is the most successful and most used assessment in determining a student’s learning style. The “LSI,” as it is known, can assess a student’s preferences and needs. The test allows for students to show how they enjoy learning while evaluating how constant their answers are. The test provides a computerized result, which will map out the learning style that is best for the child; this in turn allows for the teacher to figure out how best to help the child learn. The student can then become involved in the process and, when taken as a class, the class summary of results can allow for children with similar learning styles to be grouped together.

Other Items You May Be Interested In:

100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing the Right Educational Philosophy for Your Child's Learning StyleThe key to successful home education, homeschool veterans will tell you, is determining your educational philosophy and marrying it to your child’s ... Read More >

Discover Your Child's Learning Style: Children Learn in Unique Ways - Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning SuccessHelp Your Child Discover the Joy of Learning
Does your child learn best in the morning, afternoon, or evening? Does his reading comprehension incre... Read More >

So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple IntelligencesOne of the greatest challenges faced by every school and every educator is encouraging and accommodating a full range of student diversity while sim... Read More >

The Big What Now Book of Learning StylesAll children want to learn, but so often we give students a key to unlock their understanding of a new concept only to discover that it was the wrong ... Read More >

Looking at Type and Learning Styles