There are four types of learners as visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic as a base on four major learning styles (VARK model). Visual learners are one type of them. Today in this blog post we are going to cover visual learning style and Strategies for Visual Learners.

First of all, let’s get a rough idea about Visual Learners and visual learning styles.

What is a Visual Learner(definition)?

A visual learner is a learner type that learns using images, graphics, colors, and maps. They learn more easily through graphic representations, arrows, charts, illustrations, etc. than listening to a lecture or reading something written.

what is a visual learning style?

The learning style followed by visual learners is called visual learning style. As mentioned earlier, the style of learning through graphic representations, charts, illustrations, and visualizations is the visual learning style

how many people are visual learners?

According to the Social Science Research Network, the approximate percentage of visual learners is 65%. According to that data, most of the peoples are visual learners.

characteristics of visual learners

Most of us are Visual Learners but sometimes they don’t even know they are visual learners.

In this chapter, we mention the Characteristics of Visual Learners which are important to identify visual learners.

‌Things with charts and diagrams are well remembered.
Trying to remember learning facts through mind maps, sketches, etc.
The faces of those who meet are remembered but the name is quickly forgotten.
Organizes well the things that trying to remember.
Thoughts wander around during lectures
Reluctant to talk more.
Often reluctant to speak in front of groups

how do visual learners learn

Visual learners learn better through pictures and visualizations. When they want to learn something, they read about the topic and try to learn by visualizing it.

Strategies for Visual Learners

In this section, we will describe the strategies that can be used when studying as a Visual Learner and when teaching a Visual Learner.

Study Strategies for Visual Learners

First, strategies that can be used when studying as a Visual Learner:

1.Ask for handouts before listening to lectures

Find handouts before listening to lectures. Because when they read handouts, it creates an image in the mind.

These images and visualizations better remembered than listening to lectures.

2. Add pictures and sketches to your notes.

When you make a note, try to include sketches and pictures rather than written sentence.

When writing a note, keep space for Paste pictures and drawing sketches, mind maps etc

3. Highlight/color important words & sentences

Visual learners can easily remember lessons by using different colors to highlight the same subheadings, important points.

For example, suppose you are studying a medical textbook on diseases. Then you can highlight the symptoms in one color and the medicine related to them in another color.

This will make it easier for you to memorize the content.

4. Create Mind maps for lessons

The mind maps are one of the best and effective way to organize and absorb information For visual learners.

The mind map helps to easily organize and memorize complex lessons as well

If you do not know what a mind map is, a mind map is a diagram that draws connecting subheadings, concepts, or items around a central concept or topic.

5.Create flashcards

In addition to mind maps, flashcards are also a great way for visual learners.

If you do not know what a flashcard is, a flashcard is a card that contains a small piece of information as an aid to learning.

6. Rearrange the points in the note to make it easier to visualize.

If the points in your note are not systematic, arrange the points in a specific order to create images in the mind while reading.

Here you can easily memorize points by removing unnecessary points, adding new ones to make it clearer, and filing the facts into a specific template.

7. Include more symbols

Use star marks for important information, such as question marks for information that needs further study.

In addition, box the important points, formulas, etc., and make it easier to create the image of the note in the mind.

It is much easier to study a note in different colors and symbols than to have a lot of letters written in the same color.

So if you are also a Visual Learner, change your traditional notes.

Now I know your problem is that it takes a long time to rewrite the notes.

There is a solution.

Take some of those A4 sheets or notebook.

Turn what you have written in words into diagrams. 😉

8. Create visual presentations

According to the Slidescarnival website, Quality visual presentations can increase understanding by more than 400% and help students to absorb information better than an oral lecture.

“Tests performed years ago showed that people could remember 2,500 pictures with at least 90 percent accuracy several days post-exposure, even though the subjects saw each picture for about 10 seconds.”
molecular biologist John Medina (in Brain Rules)

9. Watch animation videos related to your topic

Visual learners can get benefit from explanatory videos that use icons, diagrams, and characters to illustrate the key points of the concept.

‌YouTube is a free source for finding animated videos related to your subject.

Teaching strategies for visual learners

We mentioned above the strategies that can be used when studying as a Visual Learner.

‌In the following chapter, we will discuss Teaching strategies for visual learners.

As we mentioned earlier, about 65% of the students in your class have a visual learning style.

If you are a teacher, the following is how to teach visual learners in the classroom.

Visual persons need to see the information they need to learn.

These students have trouble concentrating on a traditional lecture but easily study through visual information such as charts and images.

So they focus more on overhead slides, smartboard, PowerPoint presentations, handouts, and whiteboard.

Teaching strategies for visual learners:

Use diagrams, handouts with oral lectures.
Explain the lesson using a presentation with images and mind maps.
Give written handouts.
Use flashcards for the lesson.
Use animated videos to explain difficult subject areas.
Give the assignment to make posters, presentations

Activities for Visual Learners

Draw Mindmaps

As I mention above, mind map is a diagram that draws connecting subheadings, concepts, or items around a central concept or topic.

To draw a mind map, After writing the main topic in the middle, the branches are pulled out of the central topic and give more detail on the central topic.

Create Flowcharts

Flowcharts can be used to study a workflow or process.

These also can be used to gain an understanding of how a process works, to communicate how a process works to others.

Create Diagrams

Technically, Mindmaps and flowcharts are also kind of diagrams.

creating diagram also one of the best activity for Visual Learners

Create Flascards

As I mention earlier, Flashcard is a card that contains a small piece of information as an aid to learning.

Flashcards, made with a variety of colors and illustrations, are a great way to learn for a visual person.

Draw Posters, Sketches

The information in a lesson should be memorized as much as possible with sketches.
For that, it is best to create your own sketches and posters.

Create presentations

You can easily create the presentations with free tools like google slide.

They have pre-made templates for this kind of work.

Sometimes you can get good presentations related to various lessons online.

facts about visual learners: that you should Know

Visual learners can memorize 75% of what they see or read
They have a strong imagination
They tended to neat.
They daydream a lot.
They have high creativity.

‌Conclusion

In this blog post we talked about Visual Learners, visual learning styles, and Strategies for Visual Learners.

Visual persons are people who learn better by using visualizations such as images, graphics, colors, and maps.

In addition, we mentioned Teaching strategies for visual learners.

We also covered the effectiveness of using visualizations rather than oral lectures to teach them, as well as Activities for Visual Learners such as presentations and mind maps.

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