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ABC's of Learning: Discover how you learn

Find out how to strengthen your learning style

Active Learners If you are an active learner, you can strengthen your learning style by: Studying in a group Taking turns to explain different topics to each other Guessing what you will be asked next Figuring out how you will answer Remember, you will always remember information better when you find ways to do something with it.

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Reflective Learners If you are a reflective learner, some of the ways you can strengthen your learning style include: stopping sometimes to think about what you have just read, instead of reading and trying to memorise thinking of possible questions or ways you can use the information you are being taught writing short summaries of what you have read or heard rewriting class notes in your own words. Remember these extra study activities may take extra time, but will help you remember information more effectively.

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Sensing Learners If you are a sensing learner, some of the ways you can strengthen your learning style include : seeing how information connects to the real world you know asking your teacher for specific and practical examples finding other ways you can apply this information in your life finding specifics from textbooks and other sources, such as the internet brainstorming with friends or classmates. Remember, if you are in a class that is theoretical, you may have difficulty, so you will need to seek practical ways of connecting the ideas to the real world.

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Intuitive Learners If you are an intuitive learner, some of the ways you can strengthen your learning style include: asking your teacher to interpret the facts or provide theories which link the facts to something you know trying to find the connections yourself taking time to read the entire question before beginning to answer checking your results carefully. Remember, many classes are aimed to your learning style, however, if you happen to be in a situation that deals with memorisation or rote learning (eg taught by chanting, like memorising timetables), you may become bored. The activities listed above may help reduce your boredom.

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Visual Learners If you are a visual learner, some of the ways you can strengthen your learning style include: finding diagrams, sketches, photographs, flow charts or other visual images of information you are studying identifying and watching videotapes, CD-ROMS, DVDs, or electronic games which are available on the information preparing a list of key points and enclosing them in boxes or circles drawing lines with arrows between the same ideas to show connections colour-coding your notes with highlighters, eg., colouring related ideas the same. Remember, you will learn more from your classes and study materials if you enhance them visually.

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Verbal Learners If you are a verbal learner, some of the ways you can strengthen your learning style include: writing summaries of information in your own words working in groups gaining an understanding of ideas by listening to the explanations of peers and other students talking aloud about the information in your own words. Remember, you get more out of words than most. You need to get written or spoken explanations of ideas to enhance your learning.

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Sequential Learners If you are a sequential learner, you can strengthen your learning style by: asking the teacher to fill in skipped steps or fill them in yourself by searching for more information on your own outlining the information in an order which makes sense to you relating each new topic you study to things you already know. Remember, most teachers deliver classes in a following step-by-step manner, however if you have a teacher who jumps from topic to topic or skips steps, you need to take up the activities outlined above to follow the teacher's line of thinking. This will help you to connect, relate and recall the information.

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Global Learners If you are a global learner, some of the ways you can strengthen your learning style include: skimming through the entire study materials to get an overview before beginning your concentrated study of the details solving complex problems quickly and then slowing down to understand the details and linear steps others need to appreciate your solution immersing yourself in individual subjects for large blocks of time, instead of spending a short time on every subject every night relating the subject to things you already know by asking the teacher to help you make connections. Remember, other learners gain understanding and solve problems by taking a logical step-by-step process. However, you learn differently. You eventually understand new information by jumping through and gleaning information in a random way. However, once you understand how information connects to things you already know, you then see the big picture and gain understanding.

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