Learning Styles Posts

Learning Styles of Children 2: Visual/Spatial
Children with this learning style react to visual images. They like to see pictures of what they are learning. Often, it's not enough just to see a picture - they need to draw their own picture to really internalize concepts...

Learning Styles of Children 3: Tactile/Kinethetic
Children with this learning style are movers and grabbers. They are active to the point of being restless and fidgety if you try to get them to sit still. They like to interact with their world...

Learning Styles of Children 4: Analytic/Sequential
Children who are analytic learners always have more questions. "How do you know that?" "Where did that happen?" "Why are we doing it this way?" Analytic children learn best when they are given lots of details. They focus on specifics, sequence, rather than the "big picture"...

Learning Styles of Children 5: Global/Intuitive
A global/intuitive learner is always waiting to hear the big picture. They wait through the whole lesson to hear this phrase: "In other words..." Suddenly the sun comes out and they understand what you are saying...

Learning Styles of Children 6: Sensing/Reflective
Sensing learners like to solve problems using well-established methods rather than thinking up unusual solutions. They enjoy hands-on activities and experiments and are practical and careful about their work...

Learning Styles of Children Summary
Whew! There were more learning styles to cover than I initially thought. The more research I did, the more styles I uncovered. But, along the way I was able to combine many of them together - they are the same style, just called by a different name depending on which study you are looking at...