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Everyone learns differently due to learning styles / learning strategies. There are many different theories out there (take a look at
Wikipedia, for example). You might also want to check out
all you need to know about learning styles.
If you're interested in learning styles you should read how we retrain knowledge.
Bloom's Taxonomy,
Dale's Cone, and the
Learning Pyramid make for interesting reads.
Due to this knowledge of learning styles,
differentiated instruction, curriculum, and assessment is becoming more and more common in the classroom. The
University of Toronto says that learning styles can be categorised into three categories.
- Perceptual modalities: physiological; using the five senses to learn
- Information processing: cognitive; thinking
- Personality patter: affective; motivation, values, emotions, and decision making process
Researchers usually concentrate on one or two of these categories and have come up with a wide variety of learning style theories. There are a lot of good
books about learning styles that are definitely worth a read. Here are some of the most popular theories:
- Dale's Cone of Experience: best ways to learn
- Dunn and Dunn: environmental, emotional, social, physiological, psychological
- Gardner: multiple intelligences theory
- Honey and Mumford: activist, reflector, theorist, pragmatist
- How boys and girls learn differently: different ways of thinking between genders
- Learning Pyramid: how teaching methods affect how much you learn
- Kolb: converger, accomodator, assimilator, diverger
- Meyers-Briggs: sensation, intuition, feeling, thinking
- VAK: visual, audio, kinesthetic
Disclaimer:
This article has been published in HLT Magazine in October 2011. You can read the article here. You might also be interested in more tips for teaching Business English. 
