Learning Styles and Modalities

Each and every learner learns in different ways. All learners has a different way to learn or remember material. You may be a learner who needs color, a learner who needs pictures, or maybe even one who just needs writen notes. Whatever the situation different kind of learners learn different and each have different learning styles and modalities.


Visual Learners: Likes the "big picture, talks and moves fast, neat and orderly, uses color, and needs personal space. Sits in front row, draws pictures, and writes directions.


Audiotory Learners: Talkative, talks in rythmic patterns with inflection, has radar eyes and a cassette head. Sits in the middle of the room, says directions outloud, and needs specific examples.


Kinesthetic Learners: Move alot, talks more, "sloppy" and athletic. Sits in the back row, need direction in hands, leatn by doing, needs props, and emotional.

Brain Preferences:

Left Brain:

Structured: Using texts, making models and charts, pracical reading, diagramming, collecting facts, worksheets, how-to-books, computer instruction, making timelines, maps and mapping, outlines, demonstrations, classifying, and summaries.


Analytical: Lecture, note taking, library work, reading, outlining, making plans, writing essays and reports, using logic, book reporting, quiz bowl, discussing concepts, doing research, debating, and questioning experts.

Right Brain:

Affective: Journal writing, creative writing, using metaphor, humor, team games, cooperative groups, arts, role-play, music, drama, drwaing, group projects, interviewing, working with a partner.

Original: Brainstorming, inventing, games, experimenting, investigating, webbing and mapping, independant studies, having options, creating the unusual, open-ending activities, designing, problem solving, learning games, making games, hands-on learning.