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The Four Modalities of learning

Visual Preference
Students who have a visual strength or preference:
♦ want the teacher to provide demonstrations
♦ find it easy to learn through descriptions
♦ often use lists to keep up and organize thoughts
♦ often recognize words by sight
♦ often remember faces but forget names
♦ often have well developed imaginations
♦ are easily distracted by movement or action in the classroom
♦ tend to be unaware of noise
♦ Roughly 60% of students are visual learners.

Auditory Preference
Students who have an auditory strength or preference
♦ want the teacher to provide verbal instructions
♦ find it easy to learn by listening
♦ enjoy dialogues, discussions, and plays
♦ often remember names but forget faces
♦ often do well working out solutions or problems by talking them out
♦ are easily distracted by noise and often need to work where it is relatively quiet
♦ often do best using recorded books

Tactile Preference
Students who have a tactile strength or preference:
♦ do best when they take notes either during a lecture or when reading something
new or difficult
♦ often like to draw or doodle to remember
♦ do well with hands-on activities such as projects, demonstrations, or labs

Kinesthetic Preference
Students who have a kinesthetic strength or preference:
♦ do best when they are involved or active
♦ often have high energy levels
♦ think and learn best while moving
♦ often lose much of what is said during lecture
♦ have problems concentrating when asked to sit and read
♦ prefer to do rather than watch or listen
♦ Most children are kinesthetic and become more tactile in the first grade