7 learning styles

You love teaching. Your students, colleagues, and family love learning. But, what style of
Is learning more effective for each one? Surely there is no one-size-fits-all learning.
They. After all, learning tools are growing continuously and can cover a lot
diversity of learning styles.

Below we offer a detailed overview of the 7 existing styles, which do you think is the most effective?
What works best with your students or colleagues? Perhaps it's time to reflect and
realizing that the learning that best suits us does not have to be the most effective for others.
others

1) Visual: you prefer to use drawings, images, and you have a spatial vision.
Colors and photographs help you understand better what you learn.
You use mind maps.
Replace the words with images, strong colors, and use uppercase and lowercase letters.

Auditory: you prefer to use sounds, rhythms, and music for your learning.
You use sounds to help you remember things, to visualize them.
When you have to memorize a text, do you do it with rhythm or do you assign it a song?
If there is a song that especially motivates you, you play it over and over again to clear your mind.

3) Individual: you prefer to learn alone, by yourself.

You try to achieve your objectives and goals through personal beliefs and values: you focus on topics that
are of your interest.
When you need to understand something, you think about how you would act in that moment.
You are creative using role playing.
Your thoughts have a great influence on your way of acting and often provide you with security.

4) In a group: do you prefer to work in a team or with another person.

You work with others whenever possible.
Role playing is a technique that works very well for you, both face to face and in groups.
You try to share your conclusions with others.
You work in groups to put behaviors into practice and to understand how to deal with the
problems.

5) Verbal: you prefer to use words both when speaking and when writing.
You put into practice oral learning techniques or those that involve writing whenever possible.
You carry out dissertations and write.
You record yourself speaking on a recorder or Mp3 and listen to yourself later.
When you read aloud, you do it with variations, using different tones.
You try to work with others and use role playing to exchange concepts and thus learn things.
new.

6) Physical: you prefer to use your body, hands, or touch.

You focus on the physical sensations you might experience in each situation.
To make assertions, describe the physical feelings that the actions produce in you.
You use physical objects whenever possible.
You use role playing to practice skills and behaviors with others.

Logical: you prefer to use logic, reasoning, and systems.

You try to understand through reasoning instead of contextualizing.
You create diagrams that show the key points.
You associate words when you don't find meaning in something.
You emphasize the importance that thinking has for you when you need to understand the whole as a
everything.

The four learning styles: Visual,

Tactile, Kinesthetic and Auditory

Each person uses a different style or a combination of styles to learn. The

the four most important categories are: verbal visual, non-verbal visual, tactile (also
called kinesthetic) and auditory. The name of each defines its method and to what
the learner responds better. These concepts are often confused with intelligence
multiple, which is related but has another meaning.

Visualverbal

As the name suggests, learners who use verbal vision use their eyes to
retaining information. Learning involves a good view of the classroom, including the
body language of the teacher. If you are a visual or verbal learner, you respond to
visual and written. The outlines, texts, and notes on the board help you a lot for
record the information. Code the colors with markers and colored pens to
the time to read and summarize.

Non-verbalvisual

People who retain information more through non-verbal vision also

they respond well to reference sheets and colors, but they prefer drawings, designs and
videos instead of texts. The cards, highlighted text, and symbols are the best
tool for this type of learner. Making tables, charts, and graphs in the
computer can help you a lot if this is your learning style; you register the
information when projecting it in your mind and you definitely have a tendency towards the artistic.

Audition

Closely related to the verbal-visual learner, this student learns better

when information is presented to them in spoken format. Group work and
Conferences are the most efficient ways for the one who records and preserves the
information through listening. Study with a friend and discuss the
points of interest and importance also helps a lot. The increase in popularity and
The availability of books in MP3 format is a great advantage for this student.

Tactile or Kinesthetic

These learners respond to life situations or to objects that they can touch and
feel. The Montessori learning style is a style used in the early stages in
early childhood education. If you are this type of student, the texts and the charts should not be
of great importance. For this type of person, the simplest way to retain the
information is with brief notes, sketches or models.

Proposal for auditory learning style. Classroom dynamics

It is suggested that, before reading the present story, you take the following suggestions into account:

Turn off the living room lights.

The students close their eyes.

Semantic free external noise. In this way, the environment will be conducive to
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LEARNING STYLES
What are learning styles?- The different theories and how they
they relate to each other- Learning styles and strategies- The
learning styles and the theory of multiple intelligences- The
emotional intelligence

¿WHAT ARE LEARNING STYLES?

The term 'learning style' refers to the fact that when

we want to learn something each of us uses their own method or
set of strategies. Although the specific strategies we use
vary depending on what we want to learn, each of us tends to
develop global preferences. These preferences or trends to
to use certain ways of learning more than others
they constitute our learning style.

That we don't all learn the same way, nor at the same speed, is not any
news. In any group where more than two people start to
studying a subject all together and starting from the same level, we
we will soon find great differences in
the knowledge of each group member and that despite the fact that
that apparently everyone has received the same explanations and made
the same activities and exercises. Each group member will learn
in a different way, will have different doubts and will progress more in some areas
than in others.

These differences in learning are the result of many factors,

such as motivation, prior cultural background and age. But
those factors do not explain why we often find ourselves with
students with the same motivation and of the same age and cultural background
that, however, they learn in different ways, such that,
while one is very good at writing, the other finds it much more difficult
easy grammar exercises. Those differences could indeed be due to, without
embargo, to its different way of learning.

Both from the student's perspective and from the perspective of the
The concept of learning styles is particularly
attractive because it offers us great possibilities for action for
achieve more effective learning.

The concept of learning styles is directly related

with the conception of learning as an active process. If
We consider that learning is equivalent to receiving information from
In passive manner, what the student does or thinks is not very important.
but if we understand learning as the elaboration by the
The receptor of the received information seems quite evident that each
one of us will elaborate and relate the received data based on
its own characteristics.

The different models and theories about learning styles

what they offer us is a conceptual framework that helps us understand the
behaviors that we observe daily in the classroom, such as
they relate those behaviors to the way they are learning
our students and the types of actions that may be most effective
effective at a given moment.

But reality is always much more complex than any theory.

the way we elaborate and learn the information will vary in
function of context, that is, of what we are trying to learn,
in such a way that our way of learning can vary
significantly from one subject to another. Therefore, it is important not to
use learning styles as a tool to classify
students in closed categories. Our way of learning
it evolves and changes constantly, just like ourselves.

THE DIFFERENT THEORIES AND HOW THEY RELATE TO EACH OTHER

In recent decades, all kinds of theories and models have been developed.
to explain the differences in the way of learning. But, of all
Which of those theories and models is the good one?

The answer is both all and none. The word 'learning' is a...
a very broad term that encompasses different phases of the same complex
process. Each of the existing models and theories focuses on the
learning from a different angle. When the whole is contemplated
of the learning process, it is perceived that these theories and models
apparently contradictory to each other are not so much and even that they
complement.

As teachers and depending on which part of the process of

learning let's focus our attention, sometimes we will be interested
use one model and other times another.

One possible way to understand the different theories is the following.

three-step model:
 Learning always starts from the reception of some type of
information. From all the information we receive, we select
a part. When we analyzecomo seleccionamos la
informationwe can distinguish between visual learners, auditory
and kinesthetic.

The information we select must be organized and

relate. The model of the cerebral hemispheres gives us
information about the different ways we have toorganize
the informationwhat we receive.

Once we have organized that information, we use it in one way or another.

in another way. Kolb's learning wheel distinguishes between students
active, theoretical, reflective and pragmatic.

Naturally, this separation into phases is fictitious; in practice, those

Three processes are confused with each other and are closely related.
The fact that we tend to select visual information, for
example, it affects the way we organize that information. No
we can therefore understand someone's learning style if we do not
we pay attention to all aspects. In addition to the theories
related to the way we select, organize and
working with the information there are models that classify styles of
learning based on other factors, such as,
social behavior.

LEARNING STYLES ANDSTRATEGIES

Our learning style is directly related to the

strategies we use to learn something. One way to
Understanding it would be to think of our learning style as the average.
statistics of all the different strategies we used. Our
learning style therefore corresponds to the great
trends, with our most used strategies.

But naturally, the existence of a statistical mean does not prevent the
deviations, or in other words, that someone can generally be
very visual, holistic and reflective does not prevent, however, that one can
utilizar estrategias auditivas en muchos casos y para tareas concretas.

LEARNING STYLES ANDTHEORY OF THE

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
One of the most exciting and well-founded theories that has emerged
In recent years, it is Howard's theory of multiple intelligences.
Gardner defines intelligence as a set of abilities.
that allows us to solve problems or manufacture valuable products in
our culture. Gardner defines 8 major types of abilities or
intelligences, according to the context of production (linguistic intelligence,
logical-mathematical intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, the
musical intelligence, spatial intelligence, naturalistic intelligence, a
interpersonal intelligenceand the intelligenceintrapersonal).

We all develop the eight intelligences, but each one of them in

different degree. Although part of the common base that not everyone
we learn in the same way, Gardner rejects the concept of
learning styles and says that the way of learning of the same
individual can vary from one intelligence to another, such that a
an individual can have, for example, a holistic perception in the
logical-mathematical intelligence and sequential when working with the
musical intelligence.

Gardner understands (and rejects) the notion of learning styles.

as something fixed and immutable for each individual. But if we understand the
learning style as the global trends of an individual to the
time to learn and if we start from the basis that these trends
globals are not something fixed and immutable, but are in continuous
evolution, we see that there is no real contradiction between the theory of the
inteligencias múltiples y las teorías sobre los estilos de aprendizaje.

As a teacher, both types of theory are useful to me. The theory of the
multiple intelligences focuses on the individual's production
in some areas and not in others. It is my personal opinion that people with the
they can use the same learning style to develop areas of
different production and vice versa, that is to say, that individuals with different
learning styles could have the same success in the same area.
A certain way of learning can be used to 'produce'.
different [Link], opinions, and attitudesof the individual, their
tastes and their environment could lead you to one field or another.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Of the eight types of intelligence that Howard Gardner talks about, two
they refer to our ability to understand human emotions.
Interpersonal intelligence is related to our ability to
understanding others. Intrapersonal intelligence is determined by
our ability to understand ourselves.

Daniel Goleman groups both types of intelligence under the name of

emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is our ability
to understand our emotions and those of others.

Emotional intelligence determines, for example, our ability to

resistance to frustration, to confusion, or our way of
reacting to adversity. Our ability to learn is,
therefore closely tied to our emotional intelligence.