Unit 1 Communication and Employability M3

M3 How an awareness of learning styles can aid personal development.

Knowing your learning style will aid your personal development as when you understand how you learn best you can make sure that you learn more in those ways and that way what you're studying will stick a lot more, you will learn faster, be more productive, and you will also be more interested in studying.

There are 4 main types of learning styles, known as VARK, and these are visual, auditory, reading/writing and kinaesthetic.

If you’re a visual learner then you learn better through watching other people do things first and then copying them. Ways you can learn this way could be to watch youtube videos on the subject that you’re learning about as this is way you can watch tutorials of things.
If you're an auditory learner you learn best by listening to things, the best way to learn if you hear the information and this can best be achieved through lectures, watching videos or having discussions or debates about a given subject.
If you're a read/write learner you learn best from taking notes and copying from text books, and good things to do to help study would be writing flash cards or re-writing some parts of text books in your own words as this included both reading and writing.
If you’re a kinaesthetic learner then you learn best from doing things practically. Making flash cards and graphs would be useful while studying, however while learning doing practicals and getting hands on are the best ways.    

I personally learn best by writing bits of information out over and over again until the information is stuck in my brain, so a reading and writing, however I also find that studying using different aspects of all learning styles is very beneficial. Upon taking a learning styles test I was presented with the result of being a VARK learner.