Learning Style

I am a visual learner. I learn best when I can see the information being presented. Graphic organizers and images help me tremendously. For the most part, I kept eye contact with professors and teachers in order to better obtain knowledge. I always took very detailed notes so it was easy for me to go back and review before an exam, project, or paper. If I don't write things down, I do not always remember them. Teachers who present the material using visuals, videos, and handouts best met my learning needs. I did not learn very well from teachers who would just lecture. I would try to take notes, but sometimes it was difficult to keep up and I felt overwhelmed.

It is very difficult to teach every lesson focusing on every learning style. Therefore, teachers need to focus on incorporating different learning styles throughout the lesson instead of sticking with one style throughout the whole thing. For example, the professors that simply lectured for over an hour only met the needs of auditory learners. However, if that professor displayed a few images or a video to supplement what he/she was lecturing about, he/she would meet more students' learning needs. As visuals are displayed, teachers can provide an explanation to meet the needs of both visual and auditory learners. For many concepts, some sort of movement could be done or an object could be explored to introduce the lesson to benefit kinesthetic/tactile learners. There are many ways to incorporate different learning styles into one lesson without using every learning style throughout the whole lesson. The goal is to meet the needs of as many students as possible, who each have different learning styles.