Discovering My Learning Style

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I was quite intrigued while discovering my true learning style. After reading various materials and further researching additional materials, what I suspected all along was confirmed. I am an Interpersonal Learner. Most often, I find myself advising and mentoring family, friends and students due to my caring and understanding nature which reinforces my own knowledge, skills and abilities. Talking out problems, giving and receiving feedback is also part of my learning style which I find rewarding. After reading chapter 2 from Marcia L. Conner’s textbook, I was forced to closely examine the three learning styles. The Auditory Learner focuses more on hearing and listening and if you are a verbal processor, repeating words aloud are key. The Visual Learner process what they see often using pictures, images and drawings. Then there is the Tactile/Kinesthetic Learner whose style is touching, movement and takes hands on approach. Although at times I show signs of all three, my actual learning style is Tactile/Kinesthetic. I find myself a to be a Visual Learner memorizing what I read by painting images in my head and particularly when learning something new, watching a video or demonstration is quite helpful. Do I think a person’s learning style changes as they mature? Yes because people change (or should for the better) as they enter maturity. With maturity come wisdom, building of character, knowledge and understanding which changes the way we think and learn particularly if an emotion becomes a part of the new learning style. Do I think a person’s learning style is influenced by the parent/guardian that child was around the most while growing up? Yes I believe this is true because children live what they learn especially during childhood which is such an impressionable time. Children develop what is around them by listening to their parents/guardian and seeing what they
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