Compare And Contrast Visual Learning Styles

Decent Essays
Everyone has their own style they prefer, there are several different learning styles that you can choice from. Visual, verbal and audio are a couple to just name a few. I will go over each one and explain what each one means. The Visual (Spatial) Learning Style First we will talk about the visual learning style. If you use the visual style, you prefer using images, pictures, colors, and maps to organize information and communicate with others. You visualize objects, plans and outcomes in your head. You also have a good spatial sense, which gives you a good sense of direction. You can use easily use maps and other materials to find way around. The whiteboard is a favorite tool of yours to use. You …show more content…
Examples include see, picture, perspective, visual, and map.
• Use mind maps. Use color and pictures in place of text, wherever possible. If you don 't use the computer, make sure you have at least four different color pens.
• Systems diagrams can help you visualize the links between parts of a system, for example major engine parts or the principle of sailing in equilibrium. Replace words with pictures, and use color to highlight major and minor links.
• The visual journey or story technique helps you memorize content that isn 't easy to 'see. ' The visual story approach for memorizing procedures is a good example of this.
• Peg words and events come easily to you, however you need to spend some time learning at least the first ten peg words. Afterwards, your ability to visualize helps you peg content quickly.
• The swish technique for changing behaviors also works well for you, as it relies on visualization. The Verbal (Linguistic) Learning
…show more content…
You may tend to use phrases like these:
•Tell me word for word
•Let 's talk later.
•The word you 're looking for is
•I hear you but I 'm not sure I agree.
•Let me spell it out for you.
•In other words

The Aural (Auditory-Musical-Rhythmic) Learning Style If you use the aural style, you like to work with sound and music. You have a good sense of pitch and rhythm. You typically can sing, play a musical instrument, or identify the sounds of different instruments. Certain music invokes strong emotions. You notice the music playing in the background of movies, TV shows and other media. You often find yourself humming or tapping a song or jingle, or a theme or jingle pops into your head without prompting. Common Pursuits and Phrases
Some pursuits that use the aural style are playing, conducting, or composing music, and sound engineering (mixing and audiovisual work).
You may tend to use phrases like these:
•That sounds about right.
•That rings a bell.
•It 's coming through loud and clear.
•Tune in to what I 'm saying
•Clear as a bell.
•That 's music to my

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    David Hammer, the author of Two Approaches to Learning Physics, discusses how two students’ learning styles affect their capability of fully understanding physics. As one might already know, everyone has different methods of learning. Some learn visually, while others need to hear things to learn well. But what is the best way to learn?…

    • 716 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    An effective school leader should possess skills such as creativity, implementation, evaluation, and excellent communication. I conducted an interview with Tamara Perez, who is currently a director at Smart Starts Preschool. She has an A.A. degree in Early Childhood Education, Staff Credentials, Director Credentials, and has been teaching for 12 years. Becoming a teacher was not exactly what she had in mind. She was going through a rough time in her life and she began working as a teacher.…

    • 852 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Rebel Music In Daniel Felsenfeld’s narrative, he describes himself as a rebel, when it comes to the taste of music during his time. In the beginning of his narrative, Felsenfeld feels he is missing out on different aspects of culture, particularly music. At seventeen, he was a traveling, amateur, pianist. He was getting tired of playing the same music and started drifting from his passion.…

    • 791 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Learning Style Assignment

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Learning style is used to describe how individuals receive and process information. Everyone has different preferences of learning. In this assignment, I will analyze my preference of learning style, and figure out the best way to help myself on effective learning. A moderate preference of being a reflective learner was shown.…

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    1) Describe one mnemonic device and give an example of how it might be used. The method of Loci is when you use images to help recall information from memory. This method uses location and landmarks to be able to recall certain things. For example I use this when needing to remember where certain things are. I visualize a house and if I need to remember where my keys are, I remember everything that I may touch on my daily routine.…

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    D. Ronald Ente Learning style Visual & Interpersonal learner Ron prefers using pictures, images, drawings or any visual source. For me, it is the most creative way of learning and at the same time, it is most effective if I will do it with a group of people. It gives me motivation seeing people around doing the same thing. Sharing of ideas, knowledge and style within a group of people are some of the ways that enhancing my cognitive skills.…

    • 243 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My Learning Style My learning style is auditory, it can help me learn because all I have to do is make sure I listen and more than likely I will succeed. Also, this will help me in sports because if I listen, then I will always know what to do. Such as, different plays and my teammates advice. In addition, I already read out loud.…

    • 192 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Special Education Memo

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH INTEGRATED ELEMENTARY AND SPECIAL EDUCATION MEMO TO: John Smith FROM: Alexis Smullen DATE: 14 September 2015 RE: Elementary and Special Education related genre memo Thank you for showing interest in the Integrated Elementary and Special Education program at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Although there are many different writing styles educators use on a daily basis, the three most prevalent include lesson plans, direction handouts for assignments, and class syllabi. I hope this gives you a little insight on the responsibilities of an educator. LESSON PLAN A lesson plan is the educator’s step-by-step instructions of what the students need to learn and how he or she plans to use…

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Stating directions orally and in writing, and demonstrating what the students are expected to do. Additionally, provide guided practice that involves a variety of techniques that provides hands-on practice using visual aids and other supplemental material. To help students retain the information, instructional strategies of questioning techniques could be used to support higher-level thinking that involves predicting, summarizing, problem solving, organizing, evaluating, and self monitoring (Freeman & Freeman, 2011). Graphic organizers and scaffolding techniques are commonly used strategies to assist students with support to the next level and visually organizing their learning Lucas, et al.…

    • 1395 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Focus student one showed a 70% accuracy when asked to identify and sort pictures of objects into conceptual categories, a 59% accuracy when asked to identify and match all upper and lower case letter with prompting, and a 75% accuracy when asked to retell the main ideas or important facts from a read aloud. Based on these scores, I plan to raise the accuracy percentage goal for identifying and sorting colors, maintain the percentage accuracy goal for identifying upper and lower case letters, and raise the accuracy percentage goal for retelling main ideas or important facts. In terms of learning goals, the focus student has a bilateral hearing loss, therefore his learning goal will be to use self-advocating skills to ask for help or repetition of a question. The areas of growth that will be focused on for the sequence of lessons are organization of objects into categories, letter identification, and sequencing.…

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Concurs with my Teaching Philosophy The importance of understanding days that are commemorated in Australia is discussed in the Humanities and Social Sciences (History) domain of the Australian Curriculum (AC). The curriculum for Year 3 stipulates students to look at days commemorated in Australia, such as Remembrance Day, its historical origins and the importance of symbols (ACARA, 2014a, ACHHK063). As a result an integrated thematic unit on Remembrance Day has been created.…

    • 1008 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Aural Learning Style

    • 1210 Words
    • 5 Pages

    An aural learning style is the preference of learning through sounds and music. I apply this style for memorization and recall.…

    • 1210 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    How To Control Youngho

    • 546 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The game's interface displays context-sensitive pictograms that communicate which action Youngho may perform--for example, a hand symbol indicates he may pick up an item. The interface works incredibly well. The Coma's map is a useful and most welcome reference of the school's layout. However, it doesn't negate the need to memorize the locations of hiding spots, closed doors, interesting rooms, and so forth. The importance of memorization becomes abundantly clear when the killer spots Youngho, and in the navigational puzzle solving as well.…

    • 546 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Learning is multidimensional. Very seldom will a learner use just one type of learning style. There are four different learning styles: Visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic and multimodal. Multimodal is a combination of two or more of the learning styles. Those who are multimodal in their preferences can be more flexible about how they take in and give out information than those with a VARK profile that emphasizes a single preference.…

    • 788 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ADDRESSING DIVERSITY OF LEARNING IN CLASSROOM In today’s school, many different elements of diversity present themselves. These include race, learning styles, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs. e.t.c In order to ensure that each student in the classroom is gaining the maximum benefit, teachers have to understand and treat each student as a unique individual.…

    • 853 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays