Friday, April 15, 2011

Visual Spatial Intelligence Learners


Learners with Visual Spatial Intelligence are the artists. They learn best through drawings and visual aids. They have the ability to visualize the world in images. Learners with high Visual Spatial Intelligence enjoy shapes, patterns, designs, and colors.

They visualize, dream, imagine, navigate, rearrange, and draw. They have an immense capacity to form mental images. Their imagination makes them creative. They like posters, pictures, movies, pictorial representations, visual presentations. They have a superb direction sense and a keen observation. They can notice minute details which any other person would miss.

High Visual Spatial Intelligence is normally found in painters, architects, theoretical physicists, navigators, graphic artists, designers, cartographers and chess players. Some of the famous personalities with excellent Visual Spatial Intelligence are Monet, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Frank Lloyd Wright, Steven Spielberg and Cezanne.

The following traits can help to identify learners with predominant visual spatial intelligence:
  • They are good at solving puzzles;
  • Enjoy geometry, drawing, painting, sculpting, photography;
  • Good at reading maps, taking directions and remembering places and routes;
  • Are good drivers;
  • Appreciate color, shape, pattern;
  • Think in pictures, images;
  • Fast speakers;
  • Appreciate video recordings over just sound recordings;
  • Often found doodling, scribbling;
  • Pay attention to visual details.
The following activities can be undertaken to increase the effectiveness of learning with students with Visual Spatial Intelligence:
  • Teach reasoning and logic using flow charts;
  • Illustrate what is being taught;
  • Use lot of colored pens while teaching;
  • Play Videos in class;
  • Visit art galleries, museums;
  • Highlight, underline, and draw images while teaching them;
  • Use maps and help them chart the process or fundamental being taught.
Learners with this intelligence are more successful as:
  • Animation.
  • Architect
  • Artist
  • Driving.
  • Engineer
  • Fashion Designer.
  • Fine Arts
  • Graphic Designer
  • Illustrationist
  • Interior Decorator
  • Museum and Gallery Designer
  • Photographer
  • Printer
  • Tattooist.
  • Town Planner
  • Visual Media Artist
  • Window Dresser.


Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/special/articles/13999.aspx#ixzz1JfJurNCx

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