Learning Styles: Visual Learner

Created by Albert Boned, Cristina Bravo and Ariadna Morell

1. What kind of learner are you? VISUAL LEARNERS

2. INTRODUCTION Students learn in different ways . Each student have to know what kind of learner is: VISUAL AUDITORY KINESTHETIC

3. DEFINITION A visual learner tends to be a watcher . Learn better when they watch demonstrations of a new concept. They see to understand .

4. CHARACTERISTICS Tends to ignore verbal direction . The student can focus even if he/ she is in a noisy area. Visual learners don’t have and amount of vocabulary . He/ she watches the teacher’s lips when he/ she is speaking . Usually sighs during the class .

5. CHARACTERISTICS 6. Always demostration over explanation . 7. Prefers art/ pictures rather than music. 8. Answer with few words or simple sentences . 9. Diffuculties with memorizing what he/ she has heard recently . 10. Quick searching in dictionaries . 11. Misunderstand material presented verbally .

6. MATERIALS Movies Flash Cards and Slide shares Graphs , Charts , Tables Rebus Stories Graphic Organizers

7. TEACHING STRATEGIES 1. Use visual materials. 2. Teach the student to visualize. 3. Use color coding on worksheets and when using the blackboard or overhead. 4. Use the sight word approach, experience stories, and whole word configurations to teach reading. 5. Student needs to see your mouth. 6. Allow the student to read silently more often than orally. 7. Use dictation exercises often. 8. Provide written directions. 9. Provide visual materials during lectures. 10. Place the student near the blackboard.

8. TEACHING STRATEGIES 11. Teach the student how to take notes. 12. Teach the student to visualize acronyms. 13. Decrease extraneous visual stimuli by utilizing study carrels or seating students away from bulletin boards . 14. Noise may disturb the student while he is working so seat him away from distractions. 15. Teach the student to make pictures or tallies of the problem on scratch paper. 16. Use a great deal of oral language extensions with the student. 17. Repeat oral instructions . 18. Model the skill to be taught. 19. Remain stationary when talking to the student.

9. CREDITS ALBERT BONED ROQUÉ CRISTINA BRAVO VILANOVA ARIADNA MORELL GOMEZ ENGLISH STUDIES Competences , Resources and Strategies on English learning .