“What’s your learning style?”

Show of hands if you have a pretty impressive array of fancy colorful Post-Its and highlighters on standby for the next time you need to take notes… guilty?

Your eyes are your best friend when it comes to learning, and you process visual information a lot more easily than things you hear or touch.

You often have trouble focusing when someone is droning on in a lecture, and do better if a presentation is accompanied by a slide deck of images that you can take a mental picture of and reference later.

You thrive when information is presented to you in a clear hierarchy with helpful pictures attached.

And boy oh boy, do you ever love graphs and venn diagrams!

And those infographic videos you find on YouTube are your own personal rabbit hole drug that you can zone out for hours on.

Your notes are usually colorful and well organized, and you’re known to carry around flash cards when there’s a test you have to study for.

You’re sometimes accused of daydreaming during lectures where you can’t take notes or doodle – but that’s because you’re trying to visualize what you’re hearing in your head – and sometimes those internal visuals become more interesting than what you’re listening to.

So how do you adapt to your learning style?

Here are a few things you can do to tap into your visual superpowers:

• Sit at the front of the class so you can focus better (own that teacher’s pet)
• Use flashcards to learn new words (the more pics the better)
• Avoid distractions during study times ( ahem, social media)
• Look 👀 at who you’re learning from
• Make your study area visually appealing, but not too distracting.
• Underline important material with a bright highlighter, then review those things at the end of a study session. Post-Its help, too.
• Read assignments in 25 minute intervals (you lose 85% of your input after reading for 25 minutes)

At that 25 minute mark, take a break and give your eyes a rest. Stretch, walk around the room, grab a snack, use the bathroom. Completely break away from what you’re learning, and then review your underlined material when you get back.

Fun Fact: Most visual learners study best alone, so ditch the study group and find a cozy nook where there aren’t too many distractions.

“The brain is capable of absorbing 36,000 visual images every hour.”

— Better Fetter

Teaching Styles & Your Learning Style

Now that you have a better understanding of your own primary learning style, keep in mind that we all embody every learning style, to some extent. It can be extraordinarily helpful to understand all the learning styles, and even more importantly, the different teaching styles.

With a better understanding of the way teachers approach learning, you can adapt yourself and your learning habits to their teaching style, or communicate to them a way that they can help you learn better.

The 5 Teaching Styles

(And How They Apply To You)

Luckily, teaching styles have evolved as technology and understanding of human psychology has evolved.

Students are now recognized for their diverse aptitudes and acuities, and teachers try harder to meet them where they thrive.

Like anything, the more you understand, the better you comprehend, so here are the 5 different types of teacher you might encounter.

The Authority Style

Think of a Jordan Peterson style lecture, where the pundit at the front of the class pontificates from a pulpit of pedanticism.

This type of teaching is great for the note-taking reading/writing and auditory learners, but it's hell on the kinesthetic pupil. One student's highlighted, bullet pointed heaven is another's fidgeting, frustrated eternity in purgatory.

This type of teaching does work well in a remote learning setting, but there are ways to make lectures more fun and interactive for visual or kinesthetic learners.

Try our Hands On Lectures, designed to engage more than your reading and writing skills and keep you engaged – even when your prof is droning on over Zoom.

The Delegator Style

A teacher will take an observer role, organizing students into group projects or lab exercises to promote collaboration. In this type of setting, students will help each other learn, and will mentor each other throughout the process.

This doesn’t really work so well for the reading/writing types or the visual learners who do a bit better when they get to learn alone. Those types would be better off taking notes during the process that they can later reflect on and organize to their liking.

Kinesthetic learners will be in their glory, as they can be self-directed and often more active in their learning.

For any type of lab or group work, try the Action Planner, a notebook designed to be used alongside a group activity or lab with questions to help the more studious student take relevant notes and structure their approach to a hands-on learning environment. This will direct your visual and reading/writing learners while the Kinesthetic learners are busy interacting with the other students and the lab apparatus.

The Facilitator Style

Facilitators like to lead students to the right questions, and then lead them to answer them on their own, through curiosity rather than rote memorization. This encourages self-learning.

They use activities to promote self-discovery and develop problem solving skills. This creates a much better understanding of the subject material, and a much more confident student.

Once again, this type of teaching really benefits the kinesthetic learner, who likes to get fully involved, and also the auditory learner, who understands spoken instructions very well.

A visual learner would be better off translating exercises to graphs or diagrams, and the reader/writer would do well to have a structured notebook, like the Action Planner to keep track of any data that comes from experimentation.

The Demonstrator Style

This style is much more Show than Tell, and lends itself particularly well to music, art, and physical education, where an hour long lecture can easily be replaced by a simple demonstration, multimedia presentation, or class activity.

This style is perfect for the Visual learner, and appeals to the Kinesthetic when they’re allowed to practice the demonstrations immediately after seeing them.

An Auditory learner would benefit from a clear verbal breakdown of the demonstration, and a Reader/writer would be best to take notes on each step of the activity to be learned. Even better if there are some bullet point break downs of trickier sections.

The Hybrid Style

The hybrid style is a mash-up of all the styles, and is taken on by ambitious teachers who want to deliver their message equally to all learners. It can be very challenging for the teacher as they try to be all things to all their students, so it really does work best when there’s a meeting of minds.

If you find yourself lucky enough to encounter a hybrid teacher, let them know what your preferred learning style is so they can help you learn best under their guidance.

Most importantly, to be a better student, and learn to the best of your potential, you need to have a good awareness of how you learn the best. Try to keep in mind that not all people learn the way that you do, and if you can, see if you can adapt to other styles.

The more fully you explore something, the more fully you understand it.

So Visual learners should get their hands dirty sometimes, and Kinesthetics should work to nurture the silence it takes to listen, while Auditory learners can transform sounds into neat notes and writers can broaden their vision beyond the page.

Learning In Style

Hello there, curious soul! I’m Professor M, lifelong teacher, student, and learning facilitator for Adaptive Academy, on a mission to help everyone learn to their greatest potential.

In my 20 years of teaching, 10 years of facilitating, and lifetime of learning, I’ve come to the realization that we are all incredibly unique when it comes to how we absorb and process information.

Now, I want to help teachers and students meet in the middle, with lessons designed to incorporate all learning and teaching styles and bring harmony to the traditionally standardized classroom.

Check out our articles in “Educator” magazine, and tune into our guest spot on the “Teacher/Student” podcast.

🎓Class Is In Session!🎓

Check out these great resources to help you explore your learning style and gain a deeper understanding!

1. Follow us on Instagram. From adaptive learning tips to mnemonic memory lessons, you’ll find a treasure trove of free resources from @AdaptiveAcademy, as well as sneak peaks at any new lesson aides as we launch them.

2. Listen to my Podcast interview on “Teacher/Student” where I get to share 3 decades worth of educational insight into teacher/student relationships and how learning styles inform best teacher practices.

3. Want guidance on how to adapt your own learning style to the courses you want to take? Book a Planning Session with a professional Adaptive Learning Mentor. This can be a powerful planning session for students looking to declare a major, or who are struggling with their current studies. Clarity and adaptive tools can be found with the guidance of an Adaptive Learning guide.

Become A Student Of Yourself

Now that you've got some insight into how you learn best, keep an eye on your inbox for a Specially Curated Resource Guide filled with educational tools recommendations for you based around your quiz results.

Over the next week, I'll share with you more insights into how you can hack your learning superpowers and turn them to your advantage.

“The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a choice.”

— Brian Herbert

Your most valuable learning tool is your ears, because that’s how you intake and process information.

You’re probably the kind of person who remembers soundbites from TV Shows, catchy ad jingles, and every compliment or insult ever hurled your way.

While others love to read books, you’re all about audiobooks and podcasts, and you’re an active listener in any class.

While other students take carefully color coded notes, you’re the one asking questions and hanging on every word your teacher has to say.

You’ll read slowly, sometimes aloud, and often repeat things that other people say, just to make sure you got it right.

You understand information better from the way it sounds, and you have a much easier time understanding spoken instructions vs. written ones.

And people shouldn’t be surprised to hear you humming to yourself as you study.

So how do you adapt to your learning style?

Here are a few things you can do to tap into your auditory superpowers:

• Sit where you can hear the speaker
• Use flashcards to learn new words, but read them aloud
• Read directions for tests or assignments aloud, or enlist a helper to read them to you, especially if they’re long or complicated.
• Try recording yourself spelling words and then listen to the recording
• Ask your teachers if you can record their lectures for later review
• Use mnemonics, rhymes, and jingles to help you remember tricky material
• Leave spaces in your notes for later recall, and expand your notes by talking with others about what you’ve learned.
• Practice writing old exams by speaking the questions and reading the answers aloud

Fun Fact: Auditory learners work best in groups, when they can discuss the ideas they’re learning, so form a study group with your fellow students – and don’t meet in a quiet library.

“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”

― Calvin Coolidge

Teaching Styles & Your Learning Style

Now that you have a better understanding of your own primary learning style, keep in mind that we all embody every learning style, to some extent. It can be extraordinarily helpful to understand all the learning styles, and even more importantly, the different teaching styles.

With a better understanding of the way teachers approach learning, you can adapt yourself and your learning habits to their teaching style, or communicate to them a way that they can help you learn better.

The 5 Teaching Styles

(And How They Apply To You)

Luckily, teaching styles have evolved as technology and understanding of human psychology has evolved.

Students are now recognized for their diverse aptitudes and acuities, and teachers try harder to meet them where they thrive.

Like anything, the more you understand, the better you comprehend, so here are the 5 different types of teacher you might encounter.

The Authority Style

Think of a Jordan Peterson style lecture, where the pundit at the front of the class pontificates from a pulpit of pedanticism.

This type of teaching is great for the note-taking reading/writing and auditory learners, but it's hell on the kinesthetic pupil. One student's highlighted, bullet pointed heaven is another's fidgeting, frustrated eternity in purgatory.

This type of teaching does work well in a remote learning setting, but there are ways to make lectures more fun and interactive for visual or kinesthetic learners.

Try our Hands On Lectures, designed to engage more than your reading and writing skills and keep you engaged – even when your prof is droning on over Zoom.

The Delegator Style

A teacher will take an observer role, organizing students into group projects or lab exercises to promote collaboration. In this type of setting, students will help each other learn, and will mentor each other throughout the process.

This doesn’t really work so well for the reading/writing types or the visual learners who do a bit better when they get to learn alone. Those types would be better off taking notes during the process that they can later reflect on and organize to their liking.

Kinesthetic learners will be in their glory, as they can be self-directed and often more active in their learning.

For any type of lab or group work, try the Action Planner, a notebook designed to be used alongside a group activity or lab with questions to help the more studious student take relevant notes and structure their approach to a hands-on learning environment. This will direct your visual and reading/writing learners while the Kinesthetic learners are busy interacting with the other students and the lab apparatus.

The Facilitator Style

Facilitators like to lead students to the right questions, and then lead them to answer them on their own, through curiosity rather than rote memorization. This encourages self-learning.

They use activities to promote self-discovery and develop problem solving skills. This creates a much better understanding of the subject material, and a much more confident student.

Once again, this type of teaching really benefits the kinesthetic learner, who likes to get fully involved, and also the auditory learner, who understands spoken instructions very well.

A visual learner would be better off translating exercises to graphs or diagrams, and the reader/writer would do well to have a structured notebook, like the Action Planner to keep track of any data that comes from experimentation.

The Demonstrator Style

This style is much more Show than Tell, and lends itself particularly well to music, art, and physical education, where an hour long lecture can easily be replaced by a simple demonstration, multimedia presentation, or class activity.

This style is perfect for the Visual learner, and appeals to the Kinesthetic when they’re allowed to practice the demonstrations immediately after seeing them.

An Auditory learner would benefit from a clear verbal breakdown of the demonstration, and a Reader/writer would be best to take notes on each step of the activity to be learned. Even better if there are some bullet point break downs of trickier sections.

The Hybrid Style

The hybrid style is a mash-up of all the styles, and is taken on by ambitious teachers who want to deliver their message equally to all learners. It can be very challenging for the teacher as they try to be all things to all their students, so it really does work best when there’s a meeting of minds.

If you find yourself lucky enough to encounter a hybrid teacher, let them know what your preferred learning style is so they can help you learn best under their guidance.

Most importantly, to be a better student, and learn to the best of your potential, you need to have a good awareness of how you learn the best. Try to keep in mind that not all people learn the way that you do, and if you can, see if you can adapt to other styles.

The more fully you explore something, the more fully you understand it.

So Visual learners should get their hands dirty sometimes, and Kinesthetics should work to nurture the silence it takes to listen, while Auditory learners can transform sounds into neat notes and writers can broaden their vision beyond the page.

Learning In Style

Hello there, curious soul! I’m Professor M, lifelong teacher, student, and learning facilitator for Adaptive Academy, on a mission to help everyone learn to their greatest potential.

In my 20 years of teaching, 10 years of facilitating, and lifetime of learning, I’ve come to the realization that we are all incredibly unique when it comes to how we absorb and process information.

Now, I want to help teachers and students meet in the middle, with lessons designed to incorporate all learning and teaching styles and bring harmony to the traditionally standardized classroom.

Check out our articles in “Educator” magazine, and tune into our guest spot on the “Teacher/Student” podcast.

🎓Class Is In Session!🎓

Check out these great resources to help you explore your learning style and gain a deeper understanding!

1. Follow us on Instagram. From adaptive learning tips to mnemonic memory lessons, you’ll find a treasure trove of free resources from @AdaptiveAcademy, as well as sneak peaks at any new lesson aides as we launch them.

2. Listen to my Podcast interview on “Teacher/Student” where I get to share 3 decades worth of educational insight into teacher/student relationships and how learning styles inform best teacher practices.

3. Want guidance on how to adapt your own learning style to the courses you want to take? Book a Planning Session with a professional Adaptive Learning Mentor. This can be a powerful planning session for students looking to declare a major, or who are struggling with their current studies. Clarity and adaptive tools can be found with the guidance of an Adaptive Learning guide.

Become A Student Of Yourself

Now that you've got some insight into how you learn best, keep an eye on your inbox for a Specially Curated Resource Guide filled with educational tools recommendations for you based around your quiz results.

Over the next week, I'll share with you more insights into how you can hack your learning superpowers and turn them to your advantage.

“The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a choice.”

— Brian Herbert

Textbooks and worksheets and notes, oh my! You’re addicted to the written word, and learn best when you can read information and then write it all out again.

You teachers might have thought they were punishing you with grueling textbook reading assignments and lengthy note-taking sessions, but you couldn’t be more pumped to get out your favorite notebook, pen, and highlighters to do some serious word smashing.

College classes have traditionally been geared toward the reading/writing style of learning, so it’s no wonder you’ve always excelled when it’s time to take notes.

And those notes are meticulous, with special attention to nice handwriting and careful color coded Post-Its, and you often check other people’s notes to see if you missed anything.

You turn to articles, online sources and textbooks for your research purposes, leaving podcasts and flashy videos for the other learning types.

You won’t often raise your hand to ask a lot of questions, but you definitely pay attention when others speak up, all the better to write it out in your trusty notebook.

And when you’re in need of directions, it isn’t the pics on Google Maps that get you where you’re going, you’re all about the written directions.

Make sure these learners have ample time to absorb written course material and give them every opportunity to get their ideas down on paper or a digital device.

So how do you adapt to your learning style?

Here are a few things you can do to tap into your reading/writing superpowers:

• Use lists (like this one!)
• Use titles and headings that clearly explain what follows.
• Utilize bullet points and numbered paragraphs.
• Re-write your notes – and if it helps, do it again!
• Incorporate different colored pens and fun highlighters
• Write out key concepts and ideas in your own words
• Create short explanations for any diagrams, charts, or graphs
• Use Post-Its in visible places (bathroom mirror, by the sink where you do dishes, near the T.V.)

“Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out."

― Pam Allyn

Teaching Styles & Your Learning Style

Now that you have a better understanding of your own primary learning style, keep in mind that we all embody every learning style, to some extent. It can be extraordinarily helpful to understand all the learning styles, and even more importantly, the different teaching styles.

With a better understanding of the way teachers approach learning, you can adapt yourself and your learning habits to their teaching style, or communicate to them a way that they can help you learn better.

The 5 Teaching Styles

(And How They Apply To You)

Luckily, teaching styles have evolved as technology and understanding of human psychology has evolved.

Students are now recognized for their diverse aptitudes and acuities, and teachers try harder to meet them where they thrive.

Like anything, the more you understand, the better you comprehend, so here are the 5 different types of teacher you might encounter.

The Authority Style

Think of a Jordan Peterson style lecture, where the pundit at the front of the class pontificates from a pulpit of pedanticism.

This type of teaching is great for the note-taking reading/writing and auditory learners, but it's hell on the kinesthetic pupil. One student's highlighted, bullet pointed heaven is another's fidgeting, frustrated eternity in purgatory.

This type of teaching does work well in a remote learning setting, but there are ways to make lectures more fun and interactive for visual or kinesthetic learners.

Try our Hands On Lectures, designed to engage more than your reading and writing skills and keep you engaged – even when your prof is droning on over Zoom.

The Delegator Style

A teacher will take an observer role, organizing students into group projects or lab exercises to promote collaboration. In this type of setting, students will help each other learn, and will mentor each other throughout the process.

This doesn’t really work so well for the reading/writing types or the visual learners who do a bit better when they get to learn alone. Those types would be better off taking notes during the process that they can later reflect on and organize to their liking.

Kinesthetic learners will be in their glory, as they can be self-directed and often more active in their learning.

For any type of lab or group work, try the Action Planner, a notebook designed to be used alongside a group activity or lab with questions to help the more studious student take relevant notes and structure their approach to a hands-on learning environment. This will direct your visual and reading/writing learners while the Kinesthetic learners are busy interacting with the other students and the lab apparatus.

The Facilitator Style

Facilitators like to lead students to the right questions, and then lead them to answer them on their own, through curiosity rather than rote memorization. This encourages self-learning.

They use activities to promote self-discovery and develop problem solving skills. This creates a much better understanding of the subject material, and a much more confident student.

Once again, this type of teaching really benefits the kinesthetic learner, who likes to get fully involved, and also the auditory learner, who understands spoken instructions very well.

A visual learner would be better off translating exercises to graphs or diagrams, and the reader/writer would do well to have a structured notebook, like the Action Planner to keep track of any data that comes from experimentation.

The Demonstrator Style

This style is much more Show than Tell, and lends itself particularly well to music, art, and physical education, where an hour long lecture can easily be replaced by a simple demonstration, multimedia presentation, or class activity.

This style is perfect for the Visual learner, and appeals to the Kinesthetic when they’re allowed to practice the demonstrations immediately after seeing them.

An Auditory learner would benefit from a clear verbal breakdown of the demonstration, and a Reader/writer would be best to take notes on each step of the activity to be learned. Even better if there are some bullet point break downs of trickier sections.

The Hybrid Style

The hybrid style is a mash-up of all the styles, and is taken on by ambitious teachers who want to deliver their message equally to all learners. It can be very challenging for the teacher as they try to be all things to all their students, so it really does work best when there’s a meeting of minds.

If you find yourself lucky enough to encounter a hybrid teacher, let them know what your preferred learning style is so they can help you learn best under their guidance.

Most importantly, to be a better student, and learn to the best of your potential, you need to have a good awareness of how you learn the best. Try to keep in mind that not all people learn the way that you do, and if you can, see if you can adapt to other styles.

The more fully you explore something, the more fully you understand it.

So Visual learners should get their hands dirty sometimes, and Kinesthetics should work to nurture the silence it takes to listen, while Auditory learners can transform sounds into neat notes and writers can broaden their vision beyond the page.

Learning In Style

Hello there, curious soul! I’m Professor M, lifelong teacher, student, and learning facilitator for Adaptive Academy, on a mission to help everyone learn to their greatest potential.

In my 20 years of teaching, 10 years of facilitating, and lifetime of learning, I’ve come to the realization that we are all incredibly unique when it comes to how we absorb and process information.

Now, I want to help teachers and students meet in the middle, with lessons designed to incorporate all learning and teaching styles and bring harmony to the traditionally standardized classroom.

Check out our articles in “Educator” magazine, and tune into our guest spot on the “Teacher/Student” podcast.

🎓Class Is In Session!🎓

Check out these great resources to help you explore your learning style and gain a deeper understanding!

1. Follow us on Instagram. From adaptive learning tips to mnemonic memory lessons, you’ll find a treasure trove of free resources from @AdaptiveAcademy, as well as sneak peaks at any new lesson aides as we launch them.

2. Listen to my Podcast interview on “Teacher/Student” where I get to share 3 decades worth of educational insight into teacher/student relationships and how learning styles inform best teacher practices.

3. Want guidance on how to adapt your own learning style to the courses you want to take? Book a Planning Session with a professional Adaptive Learning Mentor. This can be a powerful planning session for students looking to declare a major, or who are struggling with their current studies. Clarity and adaptive tools can be found with the guidance of an Adaptive Learning guide.

Become A Student Of Yourself

Now that you've got some insight into how you learn best, keep an eye on your inbox for a Specially Curated Resource Guide filled with educational tools recommendations for you based around your quiz results.

Over the next week, I'll share with you more insights into how you can hack your learning superpowers and turn them to your advantage.

“The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a choice.”

— Brian Herbert

The phrase “get your hands dirty” is a life motto for a Kinesthetic learner, and you comprehend best when you roll your sleeves up and physically take part in any lessons.

Just like a mad scientist, experimenting with beakers and test subjects, any lesson that involves hands on work is right up your alley.

Hands-on activities and real-life experience help you remember, so you like to take things apart and put them back together, and you tend to tinker when you’re bored sitting still. #FidgetSpinnerForLife.

Science, theater, and physical sports are ideal for kinesthetic learners, so if you want to learn better, figure out how to touch, move, build, or draw what you need to learn.

Because you’re so tactile, you can easily remember the way things are done, but don’t often remember what you saw or heard in the process.

Always full of energy and often fidgety during seated lessons, you require frequent breaks and would benefit from a standing desk or a treadmill you can walk on while studying.

You speak with your hands and tend to pace when you’re thinking, and you often communicate by touch instead of words. For you, a pat on the back is better than any award or high praise.

A born tinkerer, you love to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together, which can lead to a much deeper understanding of whatever you’re trying to learn.

So how do you adapt to your learning style?

Here are a few things you can do to tap into your reading/writing superpowers:

• Trace words and diagrams on paper
• Experiment with textured paper, and different types of pens. (hello, stationary aisle)
• Try role play to dramatize concepts. Interact with an idea as much as you can, moving any props to help visualize a concept.
• Move your body in correlation with material memorization. (snap your fingers, pace back and forth, mouth words, tap your foot)
• Base your studies around subjects that involve touching, building, moving, or drawing.
• Get as “hands-on” as possible, like art or theatre
• Embrace chewing gum, rocking chairs, and fidget spinners when you’re trying to learn something new
• When possible, take your learning on a field trip. Instead of googling about history, visit a museum, library, or historical site.
• Remember that you learn best by doing, not just by reading, seeing, or hearing.

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

- Confuscious

Teaching Styles & Your Learning Style

Now that you have a better understanding of your own primary learning style, keep in mind that we all embody every learning style, to some extent. It can be extraordinarily helpful to understand all the learning styles, and even more importantly, the different teaching styles.

With a better understanding of the way teachers approach learning, you can adapt yourself and your learning habits to their teaching style, or communicate to them a way that they can help you learn better.

The 5 Teaching Styles

(And How They Apply To You)

Luckily, teaching styles have evolved as technology and understanding of human psychology has evolved.

Students are now recognized for their diverse aptitudes and acuities, and teachers try harder to meet them where they thrive.

Like anything, the more you understand, the better you comprehend, so here are the 5 different types of teacher you might encounter.

The Authority Style

Think of a Jordan Peterson style lecture, where the pundit at the front of the class pontificates from a pulpit of pedanticism.

This type of teaching is great for the note-taking reading/writing and auditory learners, but it's hell on the kinesthetic pupil. One student's highlighted, bullet pointed heaven is another's fidgeting, frustrated eternity in purgatory.

This type of teaching does work well in a remote learning setting, but there are ways to make lectures more fun and interactive for visual or kinesthetic learners.

Try our Hands On Lectures, designed to engage more than your reading and writing skills and keep you engaged – even when your prof is droning on over Zoom.

The Delegator Style

A teacher will take an observer role, organizing students into group projects or lab exercises to promote collaboration. In this type of setting, students will help each other learn, and will mentor each other throughout the process.

This doesn’t really work so well for the reading/writing types or the visual learners who do a bit better when they get to learn alone. Those types would be better off taking notes during the process that they can later reflect on and organize to their liking.

Kinesthetic learners will be in their glory, as they can be self-directed and often more active in their learning.

For any type of lab or group work, try the Action Planner, a notebook designed to be used alongside a group activity or lab with questions to help the more studious student take relevant notes and structure their approach to a hands-on learning environment. This will direct your visual and reading/writing learners while the Kinesthetic learners are busy interacting with the other students and the lab apparatus.

The Facilitator Style

Facilitators like to lead students to the right questions, and then lead them to answer them on their own, through curiosity rather than rote memorization. This encourages self-learning.

They use activities to promote self-discovery and develop problem solving skills. This creates a much better understanding of the subject material, and a much more confident student.

Once again, this type of teaching really benefits the kinesthetic learner, who likes to get fully involved, and also the auditory learner, who understands spoken instructions very well.

A visual learner would be better off translating exercises to graphs or diagrams, and the reader/writer would do well to have a structured notebook, like the Action Planner to keep track of any data that comes from experimentation.

The Demonstrator Style

This style is much more Show than Tell, and lends itself particularly well to music, art, and physical education, where an hour long lecture can easily be replaced by a simple demonstration, multimedia presentation, or class activity.

This style is perfect for the Visual learner, and appeals to the Kinesthetic when they’re allowed to practice the demonstrations immediately after seeing them.

An Auditory learner would benefit from a clear verbal breakdown of the demonstration, and a Reader/writer would be best to take notes on each step of the activity to be learned. Even better if there are some bullet point break downs of trickier sections.

The Hybrid Style

The hybrid style is a mash-up of all the styles, and is taken on by ambitious teachers who want to deliver their message equally to all learners. It can be very challenging for the teacher as they try to be all things to all their students, so it really does work best when there’s a meeting of minds.

If you find yourself lucky enough to encounter a hybrid teacher, let them know what your preferred learning style is so they can help you learn best under their guidance.

Most importantly, to be a better student, and learn to the best of your potential, you need to have a good awareness of how you learn the best. Try to keep in mind that not all people learn the way that you do, and if you can, see if you can adapt to other styles.

The more fully you explore something, the more fully you understand it.

So Visual learners should get their hands dirty sometimes, and Kinesthetics should work to nurture the silence it takes to listen, while Auditory learners can transform sounds into neat notes and writers can broaden their vision beyond the page.

Learning In Style

Hello there, curious soul! I’m Professor M, lifelong teacher, student, and learning facilitator for Adaptive Academy, on a mission to help everyone learn to their greatest potential.

In my 20 years of teaching, 10 years of facilitating, and lifetime of learning, I’ve come to the realization that we are all incredibly unique when it comes to how we absorb and process information.

Now, I want to help teachers and students meet in the middle, with lessons designed to incorporate all learning and teaching styles and bring harmony to the traditionally standardized classroom.

Check out our articles in “Educator” magazine, and tune into our guest spot on the “Teacher/Student” podcast.

🎓Class Is In Session!🎓

Check out these great resources to help you explore your learning style and gain a deeper understanding!

1. Follow us on Instagram. From adaptive learning tips to mnemonic memory lessons, you’ll find a treasure trove of free resources from @AdaptiveAcademy, as well as sneak peaks at any new lesson aides as we launch them.

2. Listen to my Podcast interview on “Teacher/Student” where I get to share 3 decades worth of educational insight into teacher/student relationships and how learning styles inform best teacher practices.

3. Want guidance on how to adapt your own learning style to the courses you want to take? Book a Planning Session with a professional Adaptive Learning Mentor. This can be a powerful planning session for students looking to declare a major, or who are struggling with their current studies. Clarity and adaptive tools can be found with the guidance of an Adaptive Learning guide.

Become A Student Of Yourself

Now that you've got some insight into how you learn best, keep an eye on your inbox for a Specially Curated Resource Guide filled with educational tools recommendations for you based around your quiz results.

Over the next week, I'll share with you more insights into how you can hack your learning superpowers and turn them to your advantage.

“The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a choice.”

— Brian Herbert