Different Learning Styles for Students Just like cultural differences between skin colors and spoken language, people have different learning styles. In modern classrooms, children use all different learning styles. Teachers must learn how to incorporate all styles into their activities and involve every student so that no one is left behind. The purpose of this article is to identify different learning styles applied to factors that influence learning. There are six main factors that influence or impede learning. They are brain processes, social factors, environmental factors, senses, physical needs and emotional attitudes. (Creative Learning 1997) How students process within their brains is critical to the learning style that would be most effective for them. The way a brain processes has 2 ways of doing so, left brain or right brain. The right hemisphere is a person who thinks about the whole picture. Compared to a left-brain thinker, who thinks and processes information in parts. Right-brain thinkers also process information simultaneously and are impulsive thinkers. They don't weigh the pros and cons of situations as much as left-brain thinkers or reflective thinkers. Social factors play an important role in student learning. How a student learns depends on the number of people involved in teaching or the number of peers who are also learning. In a large group environment such as a lecture hall with 100-200 people, a person must be attentive and pay close attention. There is less individual contact with the teacher because he is unable to reach all students. Usually in a larger environment like this there is more team work. In a smaller environment, s...... middle of paper ...... ions and expressions to judge and understand information, and then form new ideas from that information. The fourth and final general style is identical to that of multiple intelligences. It is the interpersonal learning style. They function well in groups and help others due to their normally stable understanding of the information within themselves. Each of the four general learning styles covers the eight styles displayed in Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences. Even today, psychologists still find different ways to better identify how students learn best and what method should be used. Just like technology, information is improving as we evolve. Through the eight different learning styles, people can better understand how to teach and how to shine in their best light, creating a more productive environment.