Learning Styles & Preferences to Help Your Child Learn Better

Using Different Learning Styles Models For Teaching Your Child:

Your child’s individual learning style is an important key for reaching his learning potential.

While different learning styles are primarily auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and tactile, learning can also encompass other learner preferences.

You will learn about other learning styles models on the pages that follow this one. We’ll cover VAKT and Multiple Intelligences in this tutorial. This section focuses on one of the most comprehensive learning styles models. It actually focuses on a person’s learning preferences in a different way.

Different learning styles can be based upon whether a person processes information sequentially or analytically rather than in a holistic, simultaneous, global fashion. “It is important to recognize not only individual behaviors, but to explore and examine the whole of each person’s inclinations toward learning,” (Dunn, Thies, & Honigsfeld, 2001).

Dunn, Dunn, and Price Learning Styles Inventory

Individual learning styles include emotional, environmental, sociological, psychological, and physiological preferences. These preferences are part of the Dunn, Dunn, and Price Learning Styles Inventory.

A good visual representation of these additional factors was created by Susan Rundle in the following graphic. It used with permission.

Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Inventory

Unfortunately the Dunn and Dunn learning styles inventory is no longer available. SO, I suggest paying close attention to each element in the model. Make notes about which elements you observe your child preferring most. It’s a really a straight forward kind of inventory for what your child likes. It’s a GREAT way to figure out how to build a perfect learning environment for your child.

Go ahead and read through the different pieces of this different learning styles assessment. When you see how different social, physical, and emotional components affect your child’s learning, I think you’ll see the value in building a great learning environment for your child.

This applies whether your child is being homeschooled or in public school. These different learning styles components affect your child’s learning no matter where he is schooled. If you homeschool, of course you can build the perfect learning environment more easily.

Now, let’s examine each of these different learning styles / preferences in more detail on each of the following pages..