Your learning or instructional styles are the ways you like to learn and the strategies your parents and teachers use to help you learn. There are about nine learning styles that students use to learn in school and at home. These are briefly described below: Lecture happens when you listen to information presented to large or small groups of students by your teacher or someone else. Programmed Instruction occurs when you read a chapter and then answer questions, or when you are asked to complete workbook pages after reading some material in class. Discussion happens when two or more people talk about issues and topics by considering facts and discussing them. Peer Tutoring happens when a student or friend who knows a lot about something helps someone else who does not really understand the topic. Group work happens when you get together with a group of other students to do work in class or out of class. Learning Games enable you to learn content by playing games or activities such as cards, board games, or even electronic games to practice skills. These activities can be completed individually, by small groups of students, or by the whole class. Technology helps you to learn by using computer software, videodiscs, and the internet. Simulations help you to learn content and skills through role playing that is based on real problems or pretending to be a character, such as Thomas Jefferson in the signing of the Declaration of Independence or Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II. Independent Studies can be done by you alone or with a small group of your friends in a topic you choose. Usually, your teachers or other adults help you with your work, which results in some type of product, such as an experiment, a video, a service, or an oral presentation.