Discover how you can improve your children’s learning process and boost their school performance. MentalUP’s detailed reporting system will help you find out about their specific learning style so that they can have fun while learning.
In this article, we will explore the VARK learning style model as well as the games to identify learning styles.
The VARK model, which is the most popular among learning models, was designed by Neil D. Fleming and Coleen E. Mills in 1992. The aim of their research was to help students find out more about learning preferences.
VARK learning styles include visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing learning styles and were identified after many hours of classroom observation.
The learning style is all about learning via maps, diagrams, charts, graphs, hierarchies, flow charts, symbolic arrows, and other similar ways that people use for representing information.
Visual learners are characterised as students who best learn and synthesize information when it is presented to them in the form of a graphical depiction.
Because visual learners tend to be holistic learners, they tend to achieve positive outcomes in education when they are presented with visual tools rather than sequential slides of information. If your child has this learning style, she/he can easily learn colors and shapes with these color and shapes learning games.
This auditory learning style focuses on listening and communicating. Seminars, voice recordings, music, or similar sound-related materials are the best learning tools for auditory learners.
Auditory learners like to study in groups and enjoy discussing ideas and issues, and may also benefit more by having supplemental resources like videos or audio components. Reading aloud is one of the ways in which auditory learners best learn.
This type of learning is characterized by physical touch. Experiential learning is the best way for tactile people to learn new things. Besides touching material to learn, the key of kinesthetic learning style is using manipulative study strategies such as writing, making visuals, etc.
Tactile learners prefer to learn from “doing” something. These people have a lot of energy and, because of their active nature, they often have a difficult time succeeding in conventional classroom settings.
This learning style focuses on words and text. And, many teachers and students have a strong preference for this model since it includes reading and writing in all its forms such as essays and assignments.
Reading/writing learners often prefer to learn through texts. They tend to interact with written formats as they write and then rewrite their notes. Moreover, they are good at arranging words in some type of hierarchy while studying.
So far, we have identified the four types of learning styles and concluded that understanding one’s learning process can help them learn efficiently.
Now whether you are a teacher or a parent, it is time to find out what your children’s learning style is. Apply the learning style test now!
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