Fleming’s VARK Model

By Janae S.

        The acronym VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic models that are used for learning information. Fleming and Mills in 1992 suggested four models. Although there is some overlap between the four models but they all have different meanings behind them.

The Four Models:

1.Visual Learners: Visual learning is a teaching and learning style were ideas, concepts, data, and other information are associated with images and techniques. By using images students are able to focus more on the meaning, reorganize and group ideas easily to make better use of their visual memory.

2.Auditory Learning: Auditory learning is a learning style that students more effectively by listening to information delivered orally, lectures, speeches, and oral sessions. To help auditory learners with their memory they tend to use the phrases “sounds good to

me,” and “it’s starting to ring a bell.” Also when they are describing memories they will often focus on the sounds they hear, or what people are saying.

3. Linguistics Learners:A linguistic Learner is somebody who has greatly developed skills for reading, speaking, writing and tends to think in words. They are very particular in expressing themselves and can get irritated when others do not.

4.Kinesthetic Learner:Kinesthetic learning is a learning style that is exploratory by default.Which means students love to explore and understand things by participating and interacting with things around them. Kinesthetic learning is a teaching and learning style were learning takes place when the student carrying out a physically activity.

This model in particular examines how the human mind processes different information. Many students immediately recognize that they are drawn to a particular learning style after evaluating themselves. Others may find that the learning preferences lie somewhere in the middle.

Sources:

http://vark-learn.com/introduction-to-vark/the-vark-modalities/

http://psychology.about.com/od/educationalpsychology/a/vark-learning-styles.htm

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