Your preferred learning style is how you prefer to process information. The three most commonly listed types are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. All people learn using most of these methods, but often find one to be more comfortable. Do you know what yours is? Here’s a link to the full inventory: Learning Styles Inventory
| Learning Style | Clues | Learning Tips |
| Visual | Needs to see it to know it. | Use graphics to reinforce. |
| Strong sense of color. | Color coding to organize notes and possessions. | |
| May have artistic ability. | Written directions. | |
| Difficulty with spoken directions. | Use of flow charts and diagrams for note-taking. | |
| May be easily distracted by sounds. | Visualize spelling of words of facts to be memorized. | |
| trouble following lectures. | ||
| Misinterpretation of spoken words. | ||
| Auditory | Prefers to get information by listening-needs to hear it or speak it to know it. | Use of tapes for reading and for class lecture notes. |
| Written directions more difficult to follow than spoken directions. | Learning by interviewing or by participating in discussions. | |
| Prefers listening to reading and writing. | Works well in study groups. | |
| Inability to read body language and facial expression. | Having test questions or directions read aloud or put on tape. | |
| Kinesthetic | Prefers hands-on learning. | Experiential learning (making models,, doing lab work, and role playing). |
| Can assemble parts without reading directions. | Frequent breaks in study periods. | |
| Difficulty sitting still. | Tracing letters and words to learn spelling and to remember facts. | |
| Learns better when physical activity is involved. | Use computer to reinforce learning through sense of touch. | |
| May be very well coordinated and have athletic ability. | Memorize or drilling while walking or exercising. | |
| Usually involves some kind of movement while learning, i.e. tapping pencil, shaking foot, and/or holding something. | ||
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