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Assignment Brief - Business Foundation TASK DESCRIPTION — Assignment 1 (50%) Assessment 1 - Individual essay (1500 words maximum) Read the article below and do further research to answer the questions that follow: What is the VARK Model? The VARK model was designed by Neil Fleming in 1987

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Assignment Brief - Business Foundation
TASK DESCRIPTION — Assignment 1 (50%)
Assessment 1 - Individual essay (1500 words maximum)
Read the article below and do further research to answer the questions that follow:
What is the VARK Model?
The VARK model was designed by Neil Fleming in 1987. In this model, Fleming developed a
way to help students learn more about their preferences. VARK learning styles are visual,
auditory, read write, and kinesthetic.
Visual Learners
Students who have a visual leaning style may often prefer sitting in the front of the classroom.
They may prefer to highlight, or use a lot of connectors or diagrams, create graphic organizers,
and may be seen taking more detailed notes which are very organized, often color coded or
have other ways of making distinctions between the content.
For visual leamers, we can try using sketchnotes. Sketchnotes are a combination of doodling
and text that enables the processing of information to be quicker and that attaches more
meaning to the content as students are creating and associating meaning with their own
fepresentation of it.
Auditory Leamers
Auditory leamers listen carefully and often focus on the tone or the rate of speech and may also
benefit more by having supplemental resources like videos or audio components. If students
working group, these learners benefit by more discussions and exchanging ideas, reading aloud
and even repeating some content thinking out loud.
Some ideas that can help auditory learners are using Flipgrid to post a question and have
students post responses, Synth to create a podcast to have the active listening component
addressed, and even using strategies like “telephone” where you tell a story and then students
have to retell it in their own words. Doing this type of activity leads students to focus on what
you are saying but also processing it and summarizing it back to you in their own spoken words.
Read write Leamers
Read ‘write leamers often prefer to have the text in some format. Whether they first write and
then rewrite their notes, read over their notes each day for review and class preparation, they
interact with written formats more often. Students may create diagrams and then convert them
back into statements, making lists or arranging words in some type of hierarchy.
Students with this learning style may benefit more by creating presentations where they take a
large quantity of information and then convert it into some presentation format. Some options
could be using a blogging tool like Kidblog, or creating a presentation to tell a story such as
Buncee, StoryboardThat or even PowerPoint. Students also can benefit from tools like
Storybird or Book Creator where they can create their own digital book or create a print book
 

Kinesthetic learners learn best through Hands-on learning opportunities. In classrooms today,
students spend a lot of time sitting and more passively learning. There has been more discussion
about the need for students to be more active in the classroom, even for teachers, who are
getting rid of traditional desks and moving toward standing desks. Students who have this
learning style may become distracted because of the need to move or to be active in the
classroom. As a law school student, I can recall prepping for the Bar exam and walking around
and talking about different parts of the law or reading and moving around as I read a case. I've
also noticed students doing this in the classroom.
Other possibilities are to give students opportunities to create with the content whether it is by
making flashcards, creating some poster or other resource to use in the classroom. Providing
graphic organizers are helpful so students can process the information and put it into a chart or
some other format. Also with STEM and STEAM curriculum, makerspaces or project-based
learning (PBL), giving students the opportunity to create a model of something promotes this
hands-on learning.
Poth, R. D (no date) What are VARK learning styles. Available at:
https:."blog definedleaming com blog what-are-vark-learning-styles (Accessed 9 November
2021)
Questions:

1. Discuss the four learning styles included in the VARK model.

2. Explain some of the criticisms of the VARK model.