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Learning Styles Workshop Slides

This document discusses learning styles and how individuals learn best. It introduces the concepts of learning styles, multiple intelligences, and the VARK learning questionnaire. The key points are that everyone learns differently, it is important to embrace the study methods that work best for your learning style, and effective learning involves more than just reading and writing. Some examples of different learning styles discussed are visual/spatial, logical/mathematical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.

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Learning Styles Workshop Slides

This document discusses learning styles and how individuals learn best. It introduces the concepts of learning styles, multiple intelligences, and the VARK learning questionnaire. The key points are that everyone learns differently, it is important to embrace the study methods that work best for your learning style, and effective learning involves more than just reading and writing. Some examples of different learning styles discussed are visual/spatial, logical/mathematical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.

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Student Learning

“I Don’t Think That Way”

Learning
Styles

www.dcu.ie/studentlearning
Learning Objectives

• Understand what a learning style is

• Comprehend multiple intelligences

• Understand how we learn best

• Know how to study to our strengths


What is a learning style?

“Specified patterns of behaviour and/or performance


according to which the individual approaches a learning
experience; a way in which the individual takes in new
information and develops new skills”
(Sarasin 1999; p. 1)
Multiple Intelligence Theory

Intrapersonal
Bodily /
kinaesthetic Musical

Visual/spatial
Interpersonal
Logical /
mathematical
Linguistic
Reflection

• Think back to primary or secondary school. Who was your


favourite teacher? Why?
How do you study best?

• Chat to the person next to you – when you were studying


for the leaving cert/past exams etc, what methods worked
for you?
VARK (1)

• VARK learning questionnaire


– Identifies individual’s learning strengths along 4 modalities
– Identifies what works best for you as an individual to guide your
learning
Vark (2)

• Complete a VARK Questionnaire


The Modes (1)

• What type of learner are you?


The Modes (2)

• In groups of 4, come up with some


ideas for methods that will work with
different types of learners
Top 5 take home points

1) Everyone learns differently


2) Be your own favourite
teacher
3) Remember your learning
mode
4) Embrace the methods that
work for you
5) Effective learning is more
than just reading and
writing
References

• Gardner, H. 2004. Frames of mind: the theory of multiple intelligences.


New York: Basic Books.

• Sarasin, L. C. 1999. Learning style perspectives: impact in the


classroom. Madison, WI: Atwood Pub.

• VARK 2014. The VARK questionnaire [Online]. Available from:


http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
[Accessed 28 August 2014].

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