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By answering all these questions, you’ll be able to structure and prepare your lessons in a way,
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that is most suitable for your learners and best results can be achieved not only on individual

level, but also as a group.

5.2 Resources needed
To implement the following activities, you will need the Handouts with the different learning
styles definition prepared in advance (they are downloadable from the project website) / it can
be also done through a quick online research; pen; paper; laptop; projector; flipchart; post-its,
internet connection, tape, scissors.

5.3 Duration

• Activity no. 1: Learn about learning styles - Introduction to learning styles; How to
identify your learning style? - 60 min

• Activity no. 2: Discover that there are many learning styles - Gallery Walk – 60 minutes
• Activity no. 3: Discover how our learning styles can improve how we learn - Building a
Bicycle - 60 minutes
The total duration of this section is 180 minutes. It is advisable to be implemented as a one-
day session, all three activities at the same time.

5.4 Step-by-step instructions to the trainer on how to implement the activities
Activity no. 1 – Learn about learning styles
Introduction and identification of the Learning Styles
Total duration: 60 min; Group size: 15 – 20 participants

Pre-work: Prepare in advance handouts/pieces of paper (Annex 1) which might be posted
around the room. Have one learning style on one separate sheet of paper/post-it.
Print out Annex 2 – Learning styles questionnaire.

Warm-up – 10 min: As an opening activity, have students find a pair. Initiate a discussion among
the pairs related to the question: “What is one thing you have learned recently and how did you
learn it?”. After the discussions, have some volunteer students share the thoughts and what
they’ve found out with the rest of the group. Explain that these examples show different
learning styles (i.e. how we learn things).

Introduction to the learning styles - 20 minutes:
Note that there are many different ways to learn and highlight also that learning happens all the
time. Briefly introduce the different types of learning styles on the basis of the handouts/post-
its you prepared in advance and can be found around the room. Have students volunteer to read
each style out loud, and then ask other volunteers to try and find concrete examples of how