Hi Pilar, Thanks for sharing some great ideas for teaching visual learners! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Hi George, Thanks for sharing a good strategy! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
I agree that students process information better using a variety of styles so various colored markers, videos, demonstrations, even flash cards. Using these aids me in helping each student to retain the information.
For the visual learner it's very important to use photograph, pictures, and flowcharts as much as possible. If using powerpoint presentations use multiple colored text to represent different sub topics. After describing the sequence of events, walk thru a flowchart of the sequence of events. These are good strategies for enhancing the visual learners understanding of the topic, however it is equally important to expose the visual student to the other learning styles. When he/she gets out in the work force the visual learner will need to be able to assimilate information in other ways.
I use clear, easily viewed slides (no distracting backgrounds or effects) to show each important step being discussed in my lessons. I also provide handouts for students to view at home.
As I discuss material with my class, if not using powerpoint, I make sure to write all main ideas and important points and assignment details on the board.
For visual learners, I use powerpoints as well as handouts of the covered materials. I also use different colored markers on the whiteboard. One color for terms and a different color for definitions of terms. In addition I often draw pictures of equipment and label the parts so that they can visualize the tools used in my profession.
Multiple colors are a great idea. It helps students separate ideas and keep specific elements of subjects in categories. Adding drawings and powerpoint presentations when possible allows students to see how everything comes together.
I like to use charts as well as pictures. I find pictures explaining exactly what normally would be explained in a lecture work well. that way they are able to see it with there own eyes.
Hi Kelly, Thanks for your post to the forum. Now that you know how to reach all the other learning styles, I am sure that you will get great responses to your diverse delivery! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Since I teach pharmacy I like to have the students read real prescriptions and then go to the shelves to find the bottles this helps both the visual learner by seeing the bottles and the kinesthetic learners by being able to actually touch the real containers, plus they think its fun.
I tend to teach in the learning strategy I am most comfortable in I have to be more aware of the student's perferred ways of receiving the information. For example, I am a very visual and kinesthetic learner. I am constantly confused by students who simply listen and don't take any notes. I can't imagine how they are taking in all the information we are covering much less "learning" it.
Hi Mary, Thanks for sharing a great idea for visual learners!
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
I have found when working with visual learners, they can benefit from using a mind-map. On a piece of paper students write on one side of the paper what they know about the chapter/notes they are studying and on the other side they write what they have not committed to memory. This helps learners to visually see what they know versus what they do not know.
I also encourage visual learners to take notes in different colors. The use of power points, hands outs, and pictures is also helpful for visual learners
Hi Rosa, Thanks for your post to the forum. Great ideas for reaching visual learners!Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Some instructional strategies to use when working with visual lerners will include the use of power points that include pictures, graphs, and such; also the use of books and handouts with pictures, and other visual stimulations as well. Videos are also a good strategy to apply in visual learnig.
Hi Mark , Thanks for sharing some great strategies for visual leasrners! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Hi Khalid, Thanks for your post to the forum. That feedback is essential for our students to benefit from their successes as well as their failures. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Hello Susan,
I always provide students with a visual description of the assignment, and often will bring it up on the proxima overhead for students to review. It helps them to go through the assignment criteria when it's in front of them. I then post the assignment in the course content folder so that students can access it if they are absent from class.
We do alot of grammar review on the overhead as well. It's very helpful to the visual learners to be able to see it, and visualize what they need to do to get the task completed. Since I am a visual learner, I can relate to these students and I know how helpful it be to have a visual aid to aid in comprehension.
Demonstrations of how thinngs can be done, and sommetimes doing something wrong, and asking them why it did not work, i.e, where the mistake was made.
I often use power points with pictures, graphs, charts, and different colored text.
