This post explores different ways to make the most of your learner's learning style and help them become successful learners. Try these techniques and activities to help your visual-spatial learners.
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If you read my previous post titled Discover your Learner's Learning Style and Promote their Success in Learning, you learned that there are 9 basic types of learners. You have learned that your own observations and the multiple intelligence test can help you discover your learner's learning style.
In this session I will pinpoint learning activities which will appeal to your visual-spatial learners. These learners often prefer using pictures and images as learning tools, and are good at representing space in their minds.
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My roommate Eugena is a visual-spatial learner. She is completing a nursing program at Salem State University. She loves her profession and goes to great lengths to improve her medical knowledge. I always find her watching video lectures, seminars, and webcasts about medical topics. The walls of our house are covered with her lecture notes, medical terms, pictures of the human body, and even a big poster of Mendeleev's table. She finds it easier to learn while looking at pictures.
However, you will rarely find Eugena reading her course books, only those books which have a bunch of large, colorful pictures. She would prefer to record her Professor's lectures and go over them to prepare for classes. She does not like to talk about her knowledge in nursing and she rarely discusses problems in the nursing field. However, she can always give good practical advice if you get into trouble.
Being a spatial learner as well as a visual learner, Eugena is excellent at representing internal and external organs of the human body. If you tell her that you have a certain pain or illness, her imagination immediately creates a picture of the inner state of your body. As a result she explains how your troubles are connected with the function of your internal organs.
In this session I will pinpoint learning activities which will appeal to your visual-spatial learners. These learners often prefer using pictures and images as learning tools, and are good at representing space in their minds.
My roommate Eugena is a visual-spatial learner. She is completing a nursing program at Salem State University. She loves her profession and goes to great lengths to improve her medical knowledge. I always find her watching video lectures, seminars, and webcasts about medical topics. The walls of our house are covered with her lecture notes, medical terms, pictures of the human body, and even a big poster of Mendeleev's table. She finds it easier to learn while looking at pictures.
However, you will rarely find Eugena reading her course books, only those books which have a bunch of large, colorful pictures. She would prefer to record her Professor's lectures and go over them to prepare for classes. She does not like to talk about her knowledge in nursing and she rarely discusses problems in the nursing field. However, she can always give good practical advice if you get into trouble.
Being a spatial learner as well as a visual learner, Eugena is excellent at representing internal and external organs of the human body. If you tell her that you have a certain pain or illness, her imagination immediately creates a picture of the inner state of your body. As a result she explains how your troubles are connected with the function of your internal organs.
If Eugena were my student I would prepare activities which would appeal to her visual-spatial learning style. I know that she always gets excited about taking photographs, so if she were my learner, I might invite her to take 15 pictures of playground objects during 15 seconds, come back, and make a presentation about those objects. I might also invite her to record a video during 15 seconds of her route while traveling home (as long as she isn't driving!). She could shoot some footage of herself hopping on the bus, some interesting parts of the route, and getting out of the bus. I would ask her to make a presentation of the video, explaining things in English. Using videos like this you can teach your learner words such as "hop" and "jump."
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Other examples of things that visual-spatial learners like Eugena often like including in their learning are reading diagrams, tables, charts, maps, drawing pictures, cartoons, making maps of their neighborhood, using virtual-reality system software, using flash cards, and creating posters. Finally, I could invite her to create a video shoot of her apartment like the one described in my post What Can a Simple Video of a Kitchen Reveal About Three Young Russian Women Living in the US.
Other examples of things that visual-spatial learners like Eugena often like including in their learning are reading diagrams, tables, charts, maps, drawing pictures, cartoons, making maps of their neighborhood, using virtual-reality system software, using flash cards, and creating posters. Finally, I could invite her to create a video shoot of her apartment like the one described in my post What Can a Simple Video of a Kitchen Reveal About Three Young Russian Women Living in the US.
By including activities which appeal to your learner's learning style, you will make your tutoring sessions more enjoyable and accessible to your learner.
Stick with me to discover activities for other types of learners in my future posts!
Happy tutoring!
Stick with me to discover activities for other types of learners in my future posts!
Happy tutoring!
Tatyana Pavlova
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics/ Bashkir State University
MA Education/ESL 2014, Cambridge College
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