Imagine this: it is just hidden the baby in the night and - well, it seems as if they are hidden in him, but now that I think, turns on the message 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 named 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, your budget (again, and refrain from swearing out loud) your right foot lands on and breaks the K'NEX version of the 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 under the bed frame so as much dirty laundry is thrown, the task that had three weeks ago!
Beads Feel free to replace enigma for LEGOS and K'NEX, art or construction materials, books, blocks, marbles, Play-Doh, ribbons, scissors, stuffed animals, chess pieces, or any number of other products. Then pass the tasks out of place with everything else that nobody but youseems that the value and importance to understand - 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 seems you can not grow out) in our lives who are looking for the moment with such joy, such as construction, painting, drawing, daydreaming, dance , music and letting their creative imagination. They are struggling toYou can find the time or inclination to put away the clothes, maintain a degree of organization (at least what happened organizations like the rest of the free world), and you can forget Completely 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 does not convince you, you canOffbeat.
Does anyone know, learning style important?
It is important if you know your child is a visual-spatial learners? Well, you might also ask, if it does not matter if they are left or right, 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,lefty finally accepted as is. If it was the right tool was to simplify the task, the most interesting work, and the end result 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 learning style, as well as a preferred writing hand, and it is taught in this style of learning, not provide themthe same benefits for learning, the scissors are preferred case impartially?
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 aira shelf 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 aSong I sang in many years, perhaps four or more, but the image, the image he created the song, lived with the mind's eye, 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. They stand in"Right-hemispheric talents that require aptitude skills 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 wonderful I almost threw in the trash.
One evening after eating a takeout meal from a local restaurant, my youngest could not wait until his hand had to get some tape and styrofoam containers our food was delivered inside he "saw" Airplane propellersin the eyelids, a body aircraft needs of boxes and other pieces 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 it was obviousfought back in his seat. "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 failed, the safety belt, connecting in his view, coupled with his ability to see the image andnot find the right word, is clearly a backward seven!
Most people, I learned some sequential and a little 'space. My oldest, for example, is very strong at both the hearing and sequential 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 to call a certainTime!
In an attempt to meet the needs of children like mine, we need parents and teachers first to recognize that there are significant differences in how people think and learn as relating to each individual in our learning styles. Many of us are strongly auditory-sequential or strongly visual-spatial. But that requires visual-spatial structure correspond to the learners, auditory-sequential in their country and / or school life, is equivalent to the archaic practiceForcing children to write left-handed with his right hand.
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 very effective, visualWays want to be learning new material. Maps of South America in different colors of clay (including the transparency of the overlap of the Aztecs, Maya and Inca cultures) huge butcher paper (to paths and tracks of the early Polynesian explorers Lewis and Clark), we always include some interesting activity accompanying visual and expand our traditional curriculum. They have appreciated Shakespeare until you see us cut graphAnd create a cartoon version of it!
Visual "accessories" such as mathematics manipulative, graphic organizers, computer, good old paper and crayons, chalk, transparencies, mnemonic drawings, cartoons, and much more, could be used for general education experience for each student, visual-spatial and acoustic improvement - sequential. I never met an artifact auditory-sequential students do not know that have crushed clay and recreate the old design, but I met severalvisual-spatial learners who could not recite the details or the names that had only the information from lectures or learned to read 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,obtained in a document and ask the printer to the only thing to do looking at me! I was not teaching, but he had seen during my tour, and the process was perhaps 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 nottypically by visual-spatial learner control when they are involved in a program of total immersion.) continued to draw in great detail, (instead of trying to explain!) as "satellites" (ears) information was then passed to receive a "make image building", which converts the signals into images. These images then go to the "brand image" area "is what the image means" image. (Do this step with foofoo missed Little Bunny Song!)Finally, the image bears the "building of reserves, which are all stored images to 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 parents' job is to work with the class workTeachers understand and teach a known preferred learning style. Chances are your child's classroom is not the only visual-spatial, 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 theCracks.
At home, look at how you communicate with your child. Think before it's time for the weekly (monthly?) Clean the bedroom or other ritual. You can usually rattle off a list of do-, do-that chores then left the room to believe that your "image" of a life somehow manifests itself clean from the chaos prevailing? And this is within a prescribed time frame? Now think of your success in this approach. Next time, try this: work with yourSon of a poster of pictures (or drawings together to create or magazine clippings), what the final product, never seen, since we want in the Hall 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 image of neatly folded clothes in drawers, which are still hidden inside the chest, while another image shows the right size shoes are lined on the bottom ofCabinet. 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 Dopractice. It could be the following image your child: "If we are late for your class That teacher is disturbed and stop Possibly the start of the lesson for other students who did all time. How to make your teachers feel? How other students feel? "If they can not see the consequences in time, you can actually a chance to walk out the door - and the shoes! Reassure the child that whatever they want to doinstead we will drive for them when they return. See what will happen or not happen, because 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 you're not a visual-spatial learners and the baby, try to see "from his perspective. If you created an image ofvisual learners to remember, to keep lost. It could provide a series of declarations in relation to the lingerie gather, to pick up laundry, sorted by color, fill the washing machine with detergent, turn on the water, add bleach, put the clothes, etc., but if not portrait was difficult target - clean linen planted - put your child's imagination for the purchase of linen in a room full of temptations, to draw attention entirely away from work underhand. If you think you have created an image, ask your child to describe to you what is the picture. Make sure you both agree on 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 that the new material to present visually. I once met an incredibly dynamic teacher who taught the 13 colonieswith 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 of the cartoons, which replaced most stupid character names for the characters and other objects. 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 aSkating on the opposite side. (You can find the entire collection, see http://www.multiplication.com.) There is a long line of math programs that include the material presented visually Borenson's Hands-on equations, Mortenson Math, Math-U-See and much 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. Norknew that their way of thinking is different from others, learned all he thought and thought in pictures. 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 andYour child has failed to shine at that time. For the first time in centuries, perhaps, 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 visual-spatial students will be the highest value. It can be very difficult for sequential left-hemispheric thinkers to imagine objects in three dimensionsto create the shape, the pictures with the eyes of their mind, thinking in terms of space instead 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 necessary to succeed in their career, the right tools for theJob.
© Copyright held by Alexandra Shires Golon (2003), with Development Center, Denver, CO
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