VARK Questionnaire

I was asked to do a VARK Questionnaire. A VARK Questionnaire is a way of finding out what type of learner you are. There are four different types of learning sytles.



Visual



A visual learner is a person who learns best from pictures, videos, posters, sildes, graphs and so on i did not score well on here with tells me i need to work on this type of learning style or just stick to the other styles.



Aural



A aural learner is someone who learns best by attend lectures, attend tutorials, discuss topics with other students, discuss topics with your lecturers, explain new ideas to other people, use a tape recorder, remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes... , describe the overheads, pictures and other visuals to somebody who was not there, leave spaces in your lecture notes for later recall and 'filling'. I scored the most in this learning style which i agree with as i do almost all the the above.

http://www.colegsirgar.ac.uk/vark/aural.htm

Read/Write

A read/write learner is someone who

lists
headings
dictionairies
glossaries
definitions
handouts
textbooks
readings - library
lecture notes (verbatim)
lecturers who use words well and have lots of information in sentences and notes
essays
manuals (computing and laboratory) ill

I also scored alot on this learning style which i also agree with as i do some of the above.

http://www.colegsirgar.ac.uk/vark/read-write.htm

Kinesthetic

A kinesthetic learner is someone who is hands on someone who is a doer. I really thought i was this type of learner as i like doing hands on things.

Visual 2
Aural 8
Read/Write 6
Kinesthetic 5

Learning Line

My learning line first started at infant school this was my first experience at interacting with kids my own age learning to read and write. The first time I noticed I had a stammer was a few years into my infant school life I was reading out loud and I could not get my words out. I then started to go speech therapy I thought I was the only person who had one until I meet kids my age and older who had a stammer to this made me feel a lot better as I was not the only one.

The next chapter in my life was moving from infant school to primary school this was not as scary as I first thought as my infant school and primary school were next to each other so I stayed with all my friends. Here was the first place I learned to swim I was really good and progressed faster then all my friends.

Secondary school was a really scary experience as not a lot of my friends went to the same secondary school as me. I made some really good friends most of theses are my best mates who I still see too this day. I got my first part time job when I was in secondary school paper round I kept this job for a year then gave it up and this was the same time I started going off the rails. I got in with the wrong crowd and this was the main reason why I come out of secondary school with poor grades. Nearer the end of my secondary school life I got another part time job in a butcher.

Then come college as my grades were poor I had to do a whole year making my grades up to get into the course I wanted to do this was a four year course. As soon as I started college I got another part time job in Somerfield this one I still have to this day. I passed college and this made me think to further me education even more by going to university.

SWOT

SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

Strengths

I am a very good listener i always have time for people and offer advice.
I am a friendly person but not if you get on the wrong side of me.
If im interested in the subject i will give it 100 percent

Weaknesses

I am very bad at spelling i really need to work on this.
I am not confident at speaking out loud this is duo to me having a stammer i do try and speak out loud but when in new places or new faces i become shy and find it hard to get my words out.
Another weakness of mine is im not motorvated and can be very lazy and easily distracted by others.

Opportunities

Gain more key skills in the work i wish to go into
Meet new people
Get a degree

Threats

Someone who is better at something then i am