VISUAL LEARNING

Index• Definition

• Characteristics

• Teaching strategies

• Student tips

Definition• The visual learner is characteristic for using the sight as a

learning method. Watching demonstrations or payingattention on the details are the most helpful ways forsettling down concepts.

• Body language is very important for visual learners. Whenthey are in class they prefer to see what the teacher does inorder to understand perfectly what he explains.Furthermore they usually take notes during a lecture or adiscussion.

• They tend to learn better with visual displays as forexample diagrams, illustrated text books, videos, etc.

• Linking concepts with diagrams and mental images is thebest way for them to retain concepts.

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Characteristics• She is often quiet and careful, watching what is going on around her.

• She won't always be able to remember the name of a friend; but she'll be able to describe that friends appearance with accuracy, often identifying physical characteristics.

• She tends to be neat. She appreciates tidiness and order because she is easily distracted by visual disorder or movement.

• She may use words clumsily when describing something new, but that doesn't mean she doesn't understand it.

• She uses phrases like "Do you see?" or " Show me!" and "Look at this!“ and often draws pictures to show what she means.

• She picks up on facial expressions and body language, rather than verbal communication.

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• Prefers to show or demonstrate rather than to tell or explain.

• Can locate words quickly in the dictionary if he knows the spelling.

• Visual-spatial skills such as sizes, shapes, textures, angles, and three-dimensional depths are strong.

• Visual learners have a keen awareness of the aesthetics, the beauty of the physical environment, visual media, or art.

• Visual learners have a keen awareness of the aesthetics, the beauty of the physical environment, visual media, or art.

• Daydreams; a word, sound, or smell causes recall and mental wandering

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Teaching Strategies• Use visual materials because the student's eyes are his key to

learning. He must look at what he has to learn. He needs assistance in changing what he hears into visual images so he can learn.

• Use color coding on worksheets and when using the blackboard or overhead.

• During the class, it is recommended for the teacher always to face the students in order to let them read your lips and body language.

• Allow the student to read silently more often than orally.• Teach the student how to take notes.• Noise may disturb the student while he is working so seat him away

from distractions, try to eliminate excess noise in the room.• Remain stationary when talking to the student because movement

disturbs his focus.

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Student Tips• Reading

Use sight words. Do not try to sound out words; instead, try to figure if the new work has words you already know in it. For example: the word "systematic" has the words "system," "stem," and "mat" within it.

• WritingWrite down ideas as they form in you mind.To do writing, use a computer or word processor whenever possible.Make a rough draft (skipping lines to allow room for corrections and additions) and recopy.On an essay test, make quick outlines on scratch paper on in the margin of the test before writing your answer.

• SpellingClose your eyes and see the word.Make a picture of the letters and then read from your picture.Write the word -- match your picture.Check immediately.

• MathVisualize the problemMake pictures or tallies of the problem on scratch paper.Write the problem.

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Credits

Joaquim Llurda Aldevert

Carlos Gutiérrez Rodríguez

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