There are several ways a teacher can incorporate visual learning activities. some of them can be powerpoints, colorful handouts, videos, or diagrams.
HI Jerri - Wow - you have a lot going on in your classroom! You are making great choices to address the diverse learning styles of your students. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I use the whiteboard a lot for text, as well as, graphics. I use lists to emphasize my point. I draw in anatomy class and use different color markers to capture attention.
In addition, I show short movies or TV shows with learning objectives attached to it to engage students while helping them absorb.
Hi Patrick- Thanks for your post to the forum. Your menu of instruction for your visual learners is great - well done! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I believe a PowerPoint presentation that has pictures and videos used along with the white board and Instructor demonstrations can be beneficial to visual learners.
Powerpoints are good to use, but I have found that when creating powerpoints, "less is more" should be a rule. Sometimes I have a tendency to provide too much text on the slide, so students are really just reading the visual. Also cramming too much information onto the slide impedes learning rather than helps. Use extra large fonts as well to make sure that your students in the back of the room can see your presentation.
Hi Meighen- Thanks for your post to the forum and for sharing some good ideas to use with visual learners! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Some instructional strategies to use when working with visual learners could include the use of PowerPoint presentations, particularly if those presentations incorporated engaging graphics. It would also be effective to utilize other audio/visual activities such as videos to engage these learners.
I am very similar in style with B. Birdsong regarding PPT and copies of slides while I lecture. I very much identified with the influction of the voice for very important information. One more thing: at the beginning of the next class period, I review major learning points with questions or asking the students to highlight the major points.
Some instructional strategies are to break students into small groups, have them present to the class or lecture with powerpoint.
What about having the students do a skit to show them how something works. I am new to teaching and a lot of my instruction is hands on. But slide shows pictures aswell make it much easyer for them to get a hold of the concepts.
Hi Charlotte- Thanks for your post to the forum. Since solving math problrms is essentially a process, I agree that showing the steps you take is very important. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
As a math teacher, I make sure I always "show my steps" while explaining a concept or idea. Some students prefer to hear me explain my thought process, yet others prefer to see the actual steps. Often I am able to show a graph, or a visual representation, to "explain" the problem that we are working on in a different visual manner.
Hi Eddie- Thanks for your post to the forum. Having groups with diverse learning styles is a great learning experience for our students. This is a window on the teams they will be part of in their future careers. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I generally like to use as many Training Aids as possible throughout my lectures. I like to have as many parts as I can to pass around to the students so they can get a good idea as to the information they are recieving. It seems to make them more at ease when they can look at a part and see exactly how it functions. I also like for my students to work in groups that way they can use all of their learning styles together.
As a massage instructor I find that most of my students are either visual or tactile learners. We tend to use more power points and hands-on activities to help them get the info needed.
I use Power Points for lextures and reinforce their learning with field trips where they can see and touch real materials not just see pictures of them and have a person of experience in the field explain the products and there uses.
Hi Joseph- Thanks for your post to the forum. You are a very creative and resourceful instructor! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan,
some of the strategies I use for Visual learners are to incorporate multi-colored diagrams to help point out circuit we are working on...I will make handouts using different colors of paper to emphasis the material. In my PowerPoints I also use color, shading and highlighting to point out important material. Sometimes just the use of a differrent font is enough. Pictures are also good to use to get the point across...showing the actual part as well as a diagram.
Hi Mark- Thanks for your post to the forum. I also like to use videos. Often I will just use clips from videos to illustrate specific points. Your lectures must be very interesting! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
