Ways to the brain by Kiara Gill

Don’t you hate it when you are stuck on a question in class because you weren’t listening or didn’t understand? Every day, students struggle to learn because of how they know it, and how their teacher explains the subject. The three main styles of learning are visual, auditory, and tactile. Recognizing your learning style will help you with various things, including raising your chances of success and working more efficiently. Visual learners like to watch things to learn rather than to sit and listen. For example, they would learn how to fix a car with an instructional video easier than listening to a professional explain the process. These people like drawing, doodling, making posters, diagrams, charts, watching videos, and using colours and symbols instead of words. Visual learners learn best by using images, pictures, computers, colours and any other visual media to help them learn. They find it hard to follow spoken directions and often look at things around the classroom and get distracted by noise. Some strengths of visual learners include remembering maps, great notetaking, strong organizational skills, and amazing design skills. Auditory learners are always actively listening. An auditory learner may remember everything said during a work meeting but has difficulty recalling the information outlined in a work report. Auditory learners enjoy listening to others and love listening to themselves talk. They like telling stories and speaking in front of an audience; they want to sing and enjoy music. They often read with whispering lip movements, lose concentration easily and prefer spoken directions rather than written directions. The main strengths of the auditory learner are that they are unafraid to speak up in class, and they are a gifted storyteller, good at explaining things out loud, and they are great at doing oral reports. They’re good with class presentations and many other things to do with talking and listening to it depends on who you are. Tactile learners are always doing something physical, moving around. They’re what you would call ‘hands-on learners.’ They tend to work better when there’s physical activity involved. They would learn how to ride a bike easier than others because they get to do something in the process. Tactile learners would rather create things like models and dioramas, play with clay or play dough – all the things you would say are fun rather than reading. These learners struggle with staying still and find it hard to do nothing, and they will get bored faster than others. They have great hand-eye coordination, they have good timing, they are enthusiastic and boisterous, easily remember how to do tasks a second time after doing it once, and they enjoy playing games with others. It’s always best when you can learn the easy way, and knowing your learning style can help to increase your self-confidence, improve studying new concepts, and allow you to communicate your learning needs to people. Some people are better learners by looking at diagrams, listening or moving their body while studying. Once you recognize the style of learning you prefer, you can study smarter and not harder.

AUDIO VISUAL TACTILE