Personal learning profiles can be determined with the use of the VARK questionnaire in order to personalize learning preferences to help develop additional, effective strategies for learning and for improving communication skills. The VARK learning style model was introduced by Neil Fleming in 2006 and represents four modalities: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic learning styles, developed in hopes to guide students to become better learners (Khanal, Koirala, & Shah, 2014). In correlation with the VARK analysis this student will provide a summary of their learning style as well as favored learning styles, compare learning strategy preferences to the identified strategies for their favored learning styles, and also discuss how the awareness of individual learning styles, preferences, and strategies influence teaching and learning.
Nurses, of all health professionals, devote the majority of their time to one on one patient care giving them multiple opportunities to recognize educational needs as well as the readiness to take in and comprehend new information and behaviors. The population nurses care for is quite diverse consisting of varied socioeconomic backgrounds, wide ranges of ages, diverse cultural background, previous educational experiences, levels of competency, and desired learning strategies. Effective teaching can be [cmppp_restricted] difficult and challenging when dealing with such a wide range of patients, or in other words, learners. Michael and Prithishkumar stated in the article Understanding Your Student: Using the VARK Model, “Teaching is a process of knowledge presentation while learning is often multifactorial and depends on the mindset of each student” (2014). This student’s VARK score was as followed: visual 10, aural 7, read/write 1, and kinesthetic 8, correlating with the multimodal learning preference. There are seldom instanced where just one mode of learning is used creating various combinations of the four modes. Multimodal was further classified into bimodal, tri-modal and quadri-modal; having two, three, or four preferences respectively (Michael, Prithishkumar, 2014). Visual and kinesthetic were the top two scoring 10 and 8 respectively, making this student a bimodal learner.
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