The Importance Of Learning Strategies

Learning is a process that afford the opportunity to increase one’s knowledge. VARK questionnaire aimed at helping people know and identify self and best learning strategies. This questionnaire awards scores based on the responses provided to different questions as it relates to different learning styles. The learning strategies VARK questionnaire focuses on are visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic. Following a section of answered questionnaire, the following scores were obtained; visual 5, aural 4, read/write 4 and kinesthetic 12. Per VARK’s result, strong kinesthetic strategy was identified as the learning preference. This paper focuses on kinesthetic learning strategy and how teaching and learning can be influenced by the knowledge

Kinesthetic learners benefit from hands on, practical, examples, applications trips, previous experiences while learning. Also, they learn more from teachers or instructors who use real life experience to teach rather than abstract. Likewise, these set of people would gain more while studying by using case studies to relate to abstract concepts, teaching back to others, also the use of some pictures and drawings that explain the topic. In preparation for an exam, a kinesthetic learner does better creating a picture or scenario of the exam and write practice answer. Personally, the knowledge and awareness of this learning strategy seems relatively new due to previous self-identification as a virtual learner, who tends to learn more by seeing and virtually touching. Memories of situations where only watching some videos or seeing some images or diagrams without having to read a book to gain understanding of a context keeps coming to mind. But VARK literally see more into it by the virtue of the answers that were provided on the questionnaire, hence came up with kinesthetic learning strategy. In contrast to some of the styles involved in kinesthetic learning strategy like application trips, trial and error, collections, exhibits and samples as identified by VARK, videos and animations have been a very useful personal learning