M3: Explain how an awareness of learning style can aid personal development

 

Learning styles is the way that a person likes to learn and a way that they retrieve and detain information. There are three types of learning styles visual which is for the learner that likes to have pictures or material to work from. Auditory is which like to record a lesson so they can make sure that they do not lose any information and tactile is where a person likes to do practical work not the theory work. Learning styles are important because then people will be able to process more in there learning and if people are not informed then they more decrease.

VAK which stands for Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic is there so that people and find out what learning style they are. A way that they do this is by completing a questionnaire. The importance of this system is so that people can have a better understanding on how there brain likes to work.

VARK which stands for Visual, Auditory, Read and Kinesthetic is about learning styles which is performed by doing a test. Most teachers do this test so they can make sure that they are delivering the work in the right way for the learners.

In the results of my learning styles questionnaire I found out that I was combined between two learning styles which were Visual and auditory. This means that I like to have hand-outs, materials and I also like to listen to the teacher and make sure I do not miss anything. Also I like to read something and to memorise it I like to read it out loud. The results that I received I found that they were not as correct because some of the question that was stated in the different section may apply to you but other may. A way to do this is to make sure that all of the questions are relatively the same so that people can get an accurate result.

 I agree with the results that I am a visual learner because I do like to take notes and to use picture but I do not agree that I am an auditory learner because I would not record a lesson a listen to it back. I prefer to learn new things by going through a text book or getting hand-outs. An example that I can give evidence for my questionnaire is that I regularly take notes so that I can make sure that I remember all things said in the lesson. On the first website it said that I was a visual learner which I agree with because that is the way that I prefer to work and learn, which is similar to the questionnaire which was done in a lesson.

The information that I have receive I will use in a later date so that I can make sure that I expand my work by using these skills. Having these skills then will allow me to use them in a job so that I can make sure that I so the most that I can when working. When working it helps you to expand your listening skills because your manager will always give out verbal instructions. The ways that training happens when at work is by using textbooks and by talking to say what are the expectation and the rules at where you work. A way that they can change the way that they could do training is to talk about things when walking around the store which will make it more enjoyable.

The ideal method that information would be delivered if that there is hand-outs so that it if more easily to make notes and also I would like to have more interaction into the training could include having discussion in group and answer questions in groups. A way that I can make the training the most out of training that is not delivered in my preferred method then I will try and make notes and make sure that I listen to the deliverer more carefully.