Finding a student’s best approach to learning involves identifying their unique preferences, strengths, and areas where they might need more support. Strategies include identifying the student’s learning style, providing clear and structured goals, encouraging active learning, using a variety of resources, creating a positive and encouraging environment, emphasising self-reflection, promoting consistent practice and routine, adapting to the students pace, incorporating technology and interactive tools, and building on strengths.

Learning styles can be categorised into visual learners, auditory learners, kinaesthetic learners, and read/write learners. Observing how the student naturally engages with content can help determine which style works best for them.

Providing goals can encourage a student to stay motivated and feel accomplished as they progress. This can result in a promoting of consistency and adapting to a students learning pace.

Encouraging active learning and self-reflection can lead to a better understanding of the material. This encourages a student to interact with the work provided. Self-reflection can include self-assessing progress and identifying struggle areas.

Furthermore, finding a student’s best approach to learning and study is vital in ensuring great communication between the tutor and the student, while also reaching goals and understanding difficult concepts.

Tamiah Mahoney