LEARNING STYLES REVIEW

Having an inventory of your students' learning styles is essential for every teacher as this guides him/her in the preparation of materials and activities that match the students' best way of understanding concepts. This way, learning in the classroom will truly be optimized.

Here is a review of the three different learning styles. Find out who among your students possess each style.

VISUAL LEARNERS

• comprise 40%-50% of the general population
• learn best by seeing the materialsappreciate visual representation of the materials such as graphs, tables, charts, diagrams
• best remember what is read rather than what is listened to
• like videos, filmstrips, computer-aided instruction
• have the most efficient way of storing information learned

AUDITORY LEARNERS

• comprise 10%-20% of the general population
• learn best by listening to the materials
• appreciate using audio tapes and other types of audio recordings
• best remember what is listened to rather than what is read
• employ a much less efficient way of storing information compared with the visual learners
• do some type of transfer of information to a visual storage system

KINESTHETIC LEARNERS

• comprise 20%-50%of the general population predominant in male population especially African, American and Hispanic males
• learn best by physically interacting with the materials
• are in continual motion with hands, feet, and will move and doodle most of the time
• need to have frequent breaks when asked to accomplish a certain task
• best remember what is done rather than what is seen or listened to
• employ the least efficient way to store academic information but have the best way to store athletic and artistic information

Teachers are faced with the challenge of making every lesson truly beneficial to all students in the classroom; therefore, it is important that when the teacher prepares a lesson plan, there is always something that cater to everyone: something to see and read, something to hear and listened to, and something to do.