2. Content of the presentation
The presentation consists of two
complex topics:
Learning styles
Learning difficulties
Each of them is going to be
presented separately

4. Different classifications
 Learning style is the most effective method of
learning for a certain person.
 There are plenty of models of learning styles. Each
of them classsifies learning styles from a different
point of view. The most important divisions are:
 Sensory
 Perceptual
 Cognitive Information Processing
 Personality type
 Personal talents

5. Sensory -
Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic & Tactile
(VAK) model
Learners
have
a preferred
method of
input, either
by seeing,
hearing,
or doing

7. Auditory/ Kinaesthetic
Visual learners
aural learners learners
• Listening, speaking, • Seeing teachers body • Using their senses
language and facial • Demonstrations, field
explaining, describi expressions trips and tours
ng, debates, show • Pictures, illustrations • Collections and
and tell and diagrams exhibits
• Posters, cartoons, coll • Samples and products
• Discussions with
ages • Laboratories
teachers and peers
• Slide shows • Displays, Dioramas, po
• Musical sters, task cards and
• TV Shows, films and
performances, raps, videos mobiles
songs oral • Graphs and charts
• Whiteboard activities
presentations, dem • Games, computers
• Maps
onstrations, Poems • Trial and error,
• Flash cards hands-on activities
• Verbal games • Underlining and • Role
• Digital recordings highlighting playing, charades, plays
Mp3,Mp4 • Mind Maps, Flow , performances and
• Attending charts and Brain dance
classes, tutorials Storms • Interviews, surveys
discussion • Teachers who give real
life examples

8. Perceptual - Right/Left Hemispheric
Dominance or whole Brain Model
Learners have
preferred
characteristics
attributed to
the two different
hemispheres of
the brain.

9. Occupations
Right hemisphere Left hemisphere
domination: domination:
 Forest ranger  Lab scientist
 Wildlife manager  Banker
 Beautician  Judge
 Politician  Lawyer
 Athlete  Mathematician
 Artist  Bacteriologist
 Craftsman  Librarian
 Actor/Actress  Skating judge, skiing
judge, etc.

10. Cognitive Information Processing –
Kolb’s model
Learners have
preferred
styles
in the realms
of perception -
vs- processing

11. Personality type - Myers Briggs
Type Indicator (MBTI)
Learners have
preferred styles
according to
the dichotomies in
the table below.
The indicator
measures how people
perceive the world
and make decisions.

13. Personal talent - Gardner’s
Multiple Intelligences
Learners
exhibit
preferences
in eight
different
types of
intelligence
as shown

14. Importance of finding
own learning style
 Learning is a key for
your future, so it
shouldn’t look like
this!
 Due to finding the
best method of
learning, you will be
spending less time
on learning and
remember more