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Workshop Series for students at the Northeast Center of SUNY Empire State College, Peer Coach Jennifer Woodin, presents her take on learning styles and how understanding your learning styles can make you a better student and more successful in college.
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Pieces of Success Workshop Series:Pieces of Success Workshop Series:Before You Begin Before You Begin
Learning StylesLearning Styles
Presented by
Jennifer WoodenPeer Coach
Northeast Center
Learning StylesDo you know how you learn best?
Your learning style is the way you prefer to learn. It doesn't have anything to do with how intelligent you are or what skills you have learned. It has to do with how your brain works
most efficiently to learn new information. There is a workshop located https://bitly.com/WorkshopMaterials that can help you to identify your own learning style
and show you how to develop learning strategies that work for you so you can create a customized approach to achieving academic success.
V A R K Learning StylesWhich style best fits you?
Identifying how you learn best!
Visual
Aural/Auditory
Read/Write
Kinesthetic
Multimodal
Visual Learner
Keen sense of aesthetics, visual media and art
Pictures, videos, posters, slides
Strong visual-spatial understanding of things such as sizes, textures, angels and three-dimensional depths
Textbooks with diagrams and pictures
Make “movies in their minds” of information they are reading
Underlining in different colors - highlighters
Pay close attention to body language
Aural (hearing) / Auditory
Attend residency programs
Attend study groups and tutorials
Discuss topics with others
Discuss topics with your teachers
Have strong oral communication skills
Use a digital recording device to record information - text to speech in word
Fined tune ear - remember the interesting examples, stories jokes
Read / Write
Lists - “To Do”
Headings
Dictionaries
Textbooks - words, words, words....
Readings - library
Teachers who use words well and have lots of information
Manuals (computing and laboratory)
Kinesthetic (doing)
All your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing
Often have well coordinated and have strong sense of timing and body movement
Study groups
Lecturers who give real-life examples
Hands on activities
Trial and Error
Solutions to problems, previous quizzes
Multimodal
If you have multiple preferences you are in the majority, as approximately 60% of any population fits this category
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Questions?Questions?
Visit us on the WWW - Visit us on the WWW - http://commons.esc.edu/necsuccess http://commons.esc.edu/necsuccess
ContactContactNortheast Center Office(s) of Academic Support or Student ServicesNortheast Center Office(s) of Academic Support or Student Services
E-mail [email protected]
[email protected] Phone 518-783-6203 Mail SUNY Empire State College
Northeast Center 21 British American Blvd. Latham, NY 12110
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