Learning strategies for the 'seeing, hearing, and doing" learning styles.

You may have one strong learning style or a mix of two.

Seeing | Hearing | Doing

Do you have a seeing learning style? Then you tend to rely primarily on your sense of sight to take in information, understand it, and remember it.

Learning strategies:

• Visualize yourself successfully performing a task.
• Take notes of what you hear and read.
• Keep a journal of what you've learned.
• Use charts, graphs, and flashcards to understand concepts.
• Make pictures of words, ideas and concepts in your head to enhance memory.
• Use Mind Mapping as a way of learning and remember.
• Ask your teacher/instructor/professor to write on the board.
  
• Consider building your listening skills.

You will find more information on developing your reading, memory and listening skills in our Learning Skills section.

You might also be interested in exploring the visual/spatial and naturalist intelligences in our Learning Strategies section for the Multiple Intelligence learning style.

Do you have an hearing learning style? Then you tend to understand new ideas and concepts best when you hear the information. You may also concentrate better when you have music or white noise in the background. Learning Skills section.

Learning strategies:

• Tape lectures.
• Read your notes or texts out loud.
• Summarize what you've learned and tape yourself.
• Explain what you've learned to others.
• Make a song out of items you need to memorize.
• Listen to music as you study to match words, ideas and concepts to musical themes.
• Consider building your reading skills.

You will find more information on developing your reading skills in our

You might also be interested in exploring verbal/lingustic and musical intelligences in our Learning Strategies section for the Multiple Intelligence learning style..

Do you have a doing learning style? Then you tend to prefer to learn by doing things with your hands and/or immersing yourself in a physical activity. reading and listening skills in our Learning Skills section.

Learning strategies:

• Take notes of what you read.
• Underline or highlight important facts in your text or notes.
• Make a scrapbook of what you've learned.
• Act out a poem, story or historical event.
• Walk through a series of instructions.
• Build a model or draw a picture of what you're learning.
• Create physical exercises or motions to match words, ideas, and concepts.

You will find more information on developing your

You might also be interested in exploring bodily/kinesthetic intelligence and the active learning preference in our Learning Strategies section for the Multiple Intelligence learning style.