Imagine this: You have just hidden your child at night and - well, it seems as if they are hidden in him, but now that you think about it, message comes on and you are done, fold the laundry, doing the dishes and tidy the family room in the meantime so that it can actually be a couple of hours, and - was calling for you! Why is not sleeping?
You have to make a final whisper, cuddle and Butterfly Kiss was summoned. In his attempt to navigatefour foot in the door of the bedroom and the bed to handle unprotected left foot smack on top of a colony on Mars system built of Legos. (Because these blocks are so damn painful?) How you try, the balance (again, and refrain from swearing out loud) your right foot lands on and breaks the version K'NEX International Space Station. You are clearly losing the battle navigation plan your child's bedroom, and now, on the road to greetwhen-what-the-last-time-of-war-Hoover floor with your face, you notice that the password in the bed frame as I know a lot of dirty laundry is thrown, the task that was three weeks ago!
Feel free to replace the LEGOS and K'NEX with puzzles, art materials or construction, books, blocks, marbles, beads, Play-Doh, ribbons, scissors, stuffed animals, chess pieces, or any number other products. Then pass the tasks out of place with everything else that nobody but you, it seemsunderstand the value and importance of - as, for example, homework. If this scenario sounds even remotely like an evening of your life, you're probably the parent of a visual-spatial learners.
visual-spatial learners are delightful little darlings (and big favorite, it also appears that can not grow out) in our lives that are longing for a time with such joy, such as construction, painting, drawing, daydreaming, dance , music and letting their creative imagination. Struggling to findTime or desire to put their clothes away, maintain a degree of organization (at least what happened as an organization in the rest of the free world) and you can forget the punctuality. You have the most incredible A-ha! " Moments of discovery, invention and problem solving, but the ability of the Administrator program, or show their work may decide to withdraw completely. They march to their drummer, and practically anything that convinces you, it may be unusual.
YouKnowing that someone important learning style?
It is important if you know your child is a visual-spatial learners? Well, you might wonder, does not matter if you do, if They are left or right handed, you know? If we know that a child is left-handed, do not insist that they use scissors right-handed. We had, but then we noticed that lefties are born that way, with nothing wrong, one left and we, the right-hander in the world, finally agreedLeft-handed, as they are. If it was the right tool was to simplify the task, the work more interesting, and the final result all the more enjoyable.
And if you are not giving the right tools to specific learning styles? If you, the teacher and others involved in the life of a people to understand that people have a preferred learning style, as well as a preferred writing hand, and they teach us in this preferred learning style, and would offer him no sameAdvantage for learning that are appropriate manual scissors favorite?
I did not know that people actually thought otherwise, until my son was big enough to describe me, as he thought. For example, one night, when I put in, I asked, the song good night he wanted. He sat on the bed, staring at the ceiling tense. "What are you looking at?" I asked. "My list of songs." "Oh, who cares?" He continued, "pull your finger in the air, a sort ofRegal held every photo of every song she knew. He described the images from a series of songs to see which could also mount a word, the song name, its image. He saw the song he wanted but could not find his name. I asked him to describe the picture: on the one hand with two fingers. While I think songs with two elements, the songs with the number two, 'two', my hand (with two fingers raised) was bouncing and he has achieved: foofoo Little Bunny! This was not a song I'dHe sang for many years, perhaps four or more, but the image, the image he created the song, lived through the eyes of his mind in his shelf of songs.
What I discovered my son's learning style is that he thinks in pictures. His brain is an immense wealth of images that symbolize words (such as song names!). Visuo-spatial, as my son solves complex mathematical equations are often accurate, but can not always be able to show their work. Are in "right-hemispheric"Talents, skills, attitude required from the right side of the brain: The art of geometry, to think in multiple dimensions, music, creativity, empathy, design and invention, and the pure joy of creating something beautiful out of garbage is almost thrown away.
One evening after eating a meal take-out from a local restaurant, my youngest could not wait until his hands were to get some tape and styrofoam containers our food was delivered in He 'saw' propeller plane in the eyelids, afuselage in the boxes and all other necessary parts to create his own jet. They were all there, just wasting their potential to keep our food. After lunch, voila, the plane was created - and all the crumbs of food! (I'm almost sure it's still somewhere, probably under the bed!)
Ok, one more story. Once, when we were leading for a few annoying immemorial, and the support outside the driveway, visual-spatial poster child was clearly in trouble his place."What's up?" I called back. "I can not for the backward seven to work" I think "backwards seven?" - What, how and why do you need? "Uh, what is a honey back seven?" I asked cautiously. In the meantime, the widening the road and the level of panic in his voice. At the stop I looked back to discover that he was not able to seat belt, which in his opinion, his ability to see the picture and not link the appropriate combinedWord is clearly a backward seven!
Most people, I learned some sequential and a little 'space. My oldest, for example, is very strong in both auditory-sequential skills and visual-spatial skills. For him, learning is easy and fast. He can grasp complex concepts with little effort, regardless of how they are presented. What a gift to be able, on the strengths of one or both hemispheres call at a certain time!
In an attempt to meet the needs ofMy kids like us, parents and teachers must first recognize that there are significant differences in the way many people think and learn that inherent to each individual in our learning styles. Many of us are strongly auditory-sequential or strongly visual-spatial. But students who require visual-spatial auditory-sequential nature, correspond to their country of origin and / or school life, a force equivalent to the archaic practice is left-handed children to write with their righthand.
visual-spatial skills - your child a gift
Do you have a visual-spatial hands? What do you do now, right? As a homeschooling mom, I have the luxury of creating a class, the individual responds to the needs of my children and their abilities. When we approach each new topic, think of how to present visually. Often, my children are extraordinarily effective, visually, as would have to learn new material. MapsSouth America in different colors of clay (including the transparency of the Aztecs, Maya and Inca cultures) huge butcher paper (the routes of the early Polynesian explorers Lewis and Clark trail and overlapping), we are always some interesting activity visual extend and support our traditional curriculum. They have appreciated Shakespeare until you see we did cut graph, and create a cartoon version of it!
Visually"Accessories" as a math manipulative, graphic organizers, computer, good old paper and crayons, chalk, transparencies, mnemonic drawings, cartoons, and more, to better serve the experience of global education for all student's visual-spatial and auditory-sequential. I never saw an auditory-sequential learners, who can not get crushed and sound design to create new ancient artifacts encountered, but I have lots of visual-spatial students who could not recite the data or the name if they knewOnly by reading the information or lessons learned them. Do you remember what you see is not always hear what they do. And what they feel, have given the time to create a visual image to accompany new knowledge or has been lost.
visual-spatial learners learn by observation. In just 20 months ago, I found my eldest son "playing" on your computer. He had learned to manipulate with the mouse, in a document and ask the printer for the only thing to do looking at me! Inot teach, but it was my turn and I saw the process, maybe two or three times, and learned. Today is approaching the computer as many children of his generation do not understand fear or concern, all for, as well as acts of magic.
The following picture emerged when I asked my son to tell me how he is able to learn Spanish was so good. (Foreign languages are not usually able to control by visual-spatial students, if they are involved in a totalimmersion program.) continued to be drawn in great detail, (instead of trying to explain!) as its "satellites" (ears) information, the building then to "make image", which transforms the signals into image was received. These images then go to the "brand image" area "is what the image means" image. (Do this step with the song Little Bunny foofoo!) Finally, they lost the image bears the "building of reserves, which are stored all the imagesfor the memory later. What I was particularly happy to know where he lived all employees (who were responsible for receiving signals, store photos and punching): Employee Paradise, a village compound with swimming pool and small business!
Successful exploitation of the gift
If your child is a visual-spatial learners, one of your jobs as parents is to understand and work with the class teacher to teach a known preferred learning style. Chances areChild is not only visual-spatial classroom, studies have shown that at least one third of the population of visual-spatial. Sacrificing the enrichment of the learning process with a visual, hands-on approach with activities to involve all students, not the teacher a person learns, only contributes to the general. If anyone can reach the teacher, not down through the cracks.
At home, look at how you communicate with your child. Think before it's time tothe weekly (monthly?) Clean the bedroom or other ritual. You can usually rattle off a list of do-not-work then left the room to believe that your "image" of a clean life manifests itself in some way by the prevailing chaos? And this is within a prescribed time frame? Now think of your success in this approach. Next time, try this: Do you work with your child on a poster of pictures (or drawings together to create or make extractsMagazines), what the final product, never seen, since we want in the room Mosso, if the work is finished. The images may relate to one of a well-made bed with all the stuffed animals and waits. Another picture lined neatly folded clothes in drawers, which are still hidden inside the chest, while another image shows the right size shoes are on the floor of the room. Another similar toys gathered carefully into containers .... ok, you get the picture.Now help them, the image.
As a visual-spatial child out the door can be a constant challenge. There are so many distractions, and more entertainment options. A technique that works, at least sometimes, is a portrait of the consequences of not always create a destination on time. Suppose you are late for an afternoon of Tae Kwon Do practice. You can follow the image for your child: "If we are late for your classthe teacher is angry and possibly interrupt the start of the lesson for all other students who have time. Think and feel like your teacher? How are the other students? Feel "You can see the consequences in time, you can actually a chance to walk out the door - and the shoes! Convince your child that whatever they were doing instead of desire for arrival by car is for them when they return. see what happens, ornot happen as a result of their action or inaction, is often an effective way to get results. Moreover, although militaristic effective sound of a word commands, "Shoes - Car - please have" given all the instructions they need.
If students are not visual-spatial and your child, you should try to "see" from his perspective. If you created a visual image for students to remember, consider lost. It could be a series of statements regarding the provisionLaundry: collect them all, take it down to the laundry, sorted by color, fill the washing machine with detergent, turn on the water, add bleach, put the clothes, etc., but if you plant the image of being the ' objective annoying - clean laundry - your child has captured the imagination of the purchase of laundry in a room full of temptations, to draw attention away from work completely by hand. If you think you have created an image, ask your child to describe to you what is the picture. Dosure it has agreed to the "image" that the result if the task is completed.
Imagine your child to help visual-spatial, to master something new. Whether biking or multiplication tables by heart, the greatest gift you can give your child is to present visually, the new material. I once met an incredibly dynamic teacher of the 13 colonies, as he learned his audience memorize a ridiculous story - in pictures that everyone has - a Jersey cow named Georgia, atop the Empire State Building. You "see" New Jersey, Georgia and New York here? I taught my children to read tables with the times more than the stupid cartoons objects exchanged the names of the characters and other figures. What is 8 x 2? "Skate shoe ever = Sick Queen sixteen!" the history of comic queen dizzy spinning while wearing a shoe on one foot and a skate the other. (You can find the entire collection is available at http://www.Multiplication>. Com) Post a series of math programs, including the presentation of material that visually Borenson's Hands-on equations, Mortenson Math, Math-U-See, and more.
Maybe if you ignore them, they will become too big!
learning styles is not unique to the school children! I know my husband and mother-in-law recently gave a name, as they thought and was told to refer to. Neither was aware that their thinking is different from the others, thoughteveryone learns in pictures and thoughts. And while it is not good even in elementary school, both are very bright. Understanding of their uniqueness, has helped to heal old wounds from the school and build confidence in their abilities and contributions.
The future for students visuospatial
The parents' visual-spatial world, take heart! We are on the verge of a revolution in education and child it's time to shine. For the first time in perhapsCenturies, their special gifts to be recognized and rewarded. How can such a prediction? Because in this new century, our dependence on computers and visual-oriented professions, the media of him, that talent, of course, come the spring visuospatial students will be the highest value. It can be very difficult for sequential, left-hemispheric thinkers to imagine objects in three dimensions to create images with the eyes of their minds, to think in terms of spaceinstead of time. But for students visual-spatial, is exactly how they think and learn. Maybe one day there will be classes of membership, to think like the series, because the talent is for those who are lost.
Until then, we must honor the visual-spatial students among us, learn from them and giving them the tools they need to succeed in their academic careers, the right tools for the job.
© Copyright held by Alexandra Shires Golon (2003), with developmentCenter, Denver, CO
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