by Kay Fielding

Created on: October 03, 2009

Regular class teaching is geared toward teaching visual and auditory learners. Interestingly, many teachers are visual learners, so they teach according to their own style. Visual learners need to see what they should remember in order to remember it because they rely on their sense of sight to remember a situation or remember their surroundings. Therefore, study tips should be geared toward seeing something to remember it.

If you do not know your learning style, you should find out before you determine that you need to do certain things in order to learn. There is a test online at http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/lsty leqz.htm. You can view an online chart at http://www.chaminade.org/INSPIRE/learnstl.htm which will help determine learning style. As a teacher, if you do not wish to test students individually, you can watch them and determine which learning style each student is by using ideas which details actions from people with specific learning styles. http://www.educ.uvic.ca/epls/faculty/rowles/301.htm.

Visual learners have various ways to help them best learn. http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/lear ningstyle.htm I am a visual learner, and I learn by seeing things written down.

In studying, I take notes. In learning, I need a rather uncluttered area for myself so that I am not distracted by other visuals. Visual learners can remember things by marking them with a star, putting a heavy line around them, or giving the item that needs to be remembered a distinctive mark to remember it.

Visual learners do well with outlines. They can see them, see how they are sequenced, and learn the information inside them quickly because it is organized in a visual way. They do well thinking in images, and when you ask them to picture a thing in their mind, they usually can. Therefore, as a visual learner studies, they should picture what they are trying to remember. If you are trying to remember the Krebs Cycle, picture the graph in your mind with the words highlighted.

They do well with graphic organizers because graphic organizers organize information for them. Visual learners do well with colored areas on their papers. They remember things with colors. Mark the main ideas in blue, the secondary ideas in pink, and the details in yellow. They will remember them because the colors are organized in a fashion that they can remember.

I love stickers and award certificates, and I feel good when I can look at them because stickers are for visual learners. Anything that is in color helps me remember. Mark your books and notes in color. I love using Cornell Notes because they help me remember. I can picture the words on the left and the answers on the right, and I remember them during testing.

As you think about study tips for visual learners, realize that they need to see what it is that they should learn. Therefore, if they are studying for a test, they need to read information. Let them read it for themselves. They will remember it.

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