Understanding Your Child’s Learning Style

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We all learn in different ways and use various methods in order for us to learn and retain information in the best ways we can. A lot of that journey is through trial and error – understanding how we can learn by using different methods. In this guide from one of the best girls’ schools in Surrey, we take a look at the most common learning styles and how you can help your child with their studies.

Visual learning

If your child enjoys learning through imagery and seeing pictures to understand a process, they may well be a visual learner. Visual learning involves using graphs, diagrams and maps to lay out learning material in order to interpret the information. 

Visual learners have excellent organisation and planning skills, respond well to colourful charts and can visualise things in real time. In order to help your child if they’re a visual learner, invest in reading material that relies on images, use software to build graphs, or buy stationery so that things can be colour coded on the page.

Auditory learning

If your child remembers things spoken about in class, on the radio or on the TV very often, then they could learn well through audio-visual learning. They may remember specific advice their teachers have given them and have a stronger memory that relies on listening.

Audio-visual or auditory learners have great skills in putting together good presentations for work or business, and are able to explain complex ideas clearly to others. To help your child, use audio books, repetition of words or use a dictaphone to record lessons should they need to.

Kinesthetic learning

This learning style is an amalgamation of multiple learning styles, but it mainly leans on interactive play and being proactive within your learning environment. For example, team-based activities in class, or assessments where a practical test is involved, are right up a kinesthetic learner’s street.

If your child is a kinesthetic learner, there are a number of ways you can incorporate activities, learning materials and playing games, experiments and more. Being a learning method that relies on doing rather than listening and seeing things in front of them, there are a lot of different ways for children to learn while making it fun. Kinesthetic learners love to get hands on in different scenarios and be more engaged physically while also learning something new at the same time.