VAK Learning Strategies
VAK Learning strategies can be employed to enhance learning in various situations. Depending on a person’s preferred learning style there are different actions a person can take to enhance his or her learning.
Below is a list of suggested activities and for each of the VAK learning styles:
VISUAL LEARNERS
Learn best by:
- Creating their own strong visual links
- Writing down key facts
- Look at people when they talk
- Creating a Mind Map
- Visualizing what they are learning
- Underlining/highlighting new information/key points
- Creating pictures/diagrams from what they are learning
- Using timelines and lists for remembering
- Putting key points on to index cards and sorting them into order
- Using pictures, diagrams, charts, film, video, graphics, etc
AUDITORY LEARNERS
Learn best by:
- Listening a seminar, presentation, or explanation
- Recording a seminar
- studying with a friend so that you can talk out loud and hear the information
- Reciting out loud the things you want to remember
- Making a tape of key points to listen
- Verbally summarizing in their own words
- Explaining the subject to someone else
KINESTHETIC LEARNERS
Learn best by:
- Getting physically and actively involved in their learning
- Writing down key facts
- Making models
- Walking around while they read
- walking around while reciting to yourself as they memorize facts
- Underlining/highlighting new information/key points
Additional Learning Styles
4MAT Learning Style Model
Gregorc mind styles model
Kolb Learning Style Model
VAK Learning Preference
Honey Mumford Learning Style
Felder-Silverman Learning Style
Herrmann’s Brain Dominance HBDI
Left-brain and Right-brain Preferences
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator MBTI
