Helping Your Struggling Student
What is your child like?
Does your child have trouble in school? Do they hate math, spelling, reading, and writing?
Can he add up the same math problem and come up with a different answer each time?
Is her spelling “creative” and unfathomable?
Does his handwriting look like a dizzy chicken wandered across his page?
When he reads aloud does he often skip or substitute words?
Does he have trouble following oral directions?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Helping Your Struggling Student - Characteristics of a Visual-Spatial Learner
Characteristics of a Visual Spatial Learner
This is a style of learning.
Often visual spatial learners use the right side of their brain to gather and process information.
Though people use both hands, they prefer to use one hand over the other. This is their dominate hand. It is the same with our brain. We use both sides of our brain, but usually we have a dominant side we prefer to use to deal with life.
This is a style of learning.
Often visual spatial learners use the right side of their brain to gather and process information.
Though people use both hands, they prefer to use one hand over the other. This is their dominate hand. It is the same with our brain. We use both sides of our brain, but usually we have a dominant side we prefer to use to deal with life.
Helping Your Struggling Student - Visual Spatial Learning Approach
Visual-Spatial Learners Approach to Learning
A visual-spatial learner is a person who predominate uses sight as their preferred way to learn. They learn by seeing things. It can involve sight only, or they can “see” and understand a concept through their experiences.
A visual-spatial learner is a person who predominate uses sight as their preferred way to learn. They learn by seeing things. It can involve sight only, or they can “see” and understand a concept through their experiences.
Helping Your Struggling Student - General Helpful Ideas
Specific Ideas on How to Help Your Struggling Learner
Think positive and appreciate their gifts.
Help the child realize and develop their gifts.
Do not try to change your child to make them like other children.
Focus on their gifts, but help them to cope with their areas of weakness.
Realize that people are different and we have been given unique gifts.
Accept that there is no one way all people should be. Your child is “normal” for a visual-spatial person.
Think positive and appreciate their gifts.
Help the child realize and develop their gifts.
Do not try to change your child to make them like other children.
Focus on their gifts, but help them to cope with their areas of weakness.
Realize that people are different and we have been given unique gifts.
Accept that there is no one way all people should be. Your child is “normal” for a visual-spatial person.
Helping Your Struggling Student - Positive View
Positive View of Visual-Spatial People
Keep in mind that in reality probably only 2% to 3% of children actually have a physical problem with their brain. The rest of the “problems” are actually visual-spatial learners or emotional problems. Often the stress visual-spatial learners are under in a school environment causes them to experience emotional problems. When these children are given adequate support
Keep in mind that in reality probably only 2% to 3% of children actually have a physical problem with their brain. The rest of the “problems” are actually visual-spatial learners or emotional problems. Often the stress visual-spatial learners are under in a school environment causes them to experience emotional problems. When these children are given adequate support
Helping Your Struggling Student - Basic Ideas for Teaching
Specific Ideas to Teach a Visual-Spatial Learner
Remember that the visual-spatial learner learns visually. Anything that helps them visualize what they are learning will help them to understand and remember it. Multi-sensory (things they can see, touch, hear) experiences are great. Since visualizing is a right brain function (in most people) humor, color, rhythm and music will also aid the child’s learning.
Remember that the visual-spatial learner learns visually. Anything that helps them visualize what they are learning will help them to understand and remember it. Multi-sensory (things they can see, touch, hear) experiences are great. Since visualizing is a right brain function (in most people) humor, color, rhythm and music will also aid the child’s learning.
Helping Your Struggling Student - Lectures
Coping with Lectures
They will not be able to learn easily from lectures, but if the lectures use pictures and charts etc. it will help the child visualize the material.
It will also help if
They will not be able to learn easily from lectures, but if the lectures use pictures and charts etc. it will help the child visualize the material.
It will also help if
Helping Your Struggling Student - Reading
Phonetic reading requires the ability to sequence small sound groups to form a whole word, then words into sentences. Visual-spatial people learn best when they learn works in context (in sentences).
It is crucial to have
It is crucial to have
Helping Your Struggling Student - Math
Visual-spacial learners need to experience math. They need to be able to visualize what each number means. They need to “see” the story problem. Drawing pictures, using manipulate (things to count etc), charts, graphs, and pictures can help them learn.
Helping Your Struggling Student - Spelling
If their visual memory is strong enough, have them visualize the word in their mind, then write what they see. Others may need more help such as:
Helping Your Struggling Student - Test Taking
Visual-spatial children may have considerable difficulty with tests in school since most are designed to evaluate auditory-sequential strengths.
Visual-spatial students can improve in their test taking results if they
Visual-spatial students can improve in their test taking results if they
Helping Your Struggling Student - Reports
Some may be able to do written reports, but may need help in writing down their information and organizing it. Here are other ways to help them with a report:
Helping Your Struggling Student - Handwriting
Often the visual-spatial child’s handwriting is poor. Sometimes they “hook” their hand around when writing. This is not a matter of physical coordination
Helping Your Struggling Student - Creative Writing
Almost all creative writers are visual-spatial people. They have the ability to “see” a story, idea, place, or character in their mind and use words to enable others to become a part of that world. They can become adept at sharing their experiences through words.
Since creative writers are visual-spatial people they need
Since creative writers are visual-spatial people they need
Helping Your Struggling Student- Books to Read
Books for Parents to Read to Help Your Struggling Student
Though I don’t agree with everything in each book, on the whole I found their ideas very helpful.
Right - Brained Children in a Left - Brained World
Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child
by Jeffrey Freed, M.A.T. and Laurie Parsons
Though I don’t agree with everything in each book, on the whole I found their ideas very helpful.
Right - Brained Children in a Left - Brained World
Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child
by Jeffrey Freed, M.A.T. and Laurie Parsons
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