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Visual Spatial Learner
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On Thursday, February 5th at 7:00pm in the Sacandaga Elementary Library
SPACE (Scotia-Glenville Parents Advocating for Challenging Education) hosted a forum on Visual-Spatial Learners (VSLs)
Visual learners are students who remember what they see, and often forget what they hear. They often get “the big picture”, but miss the details, can be excellent problem and puzzle solvers, yet might struggle with organizational skills and sequential tasks. As a result, they present unique challenges to their parents and teachers
Speakers included Jan Tunison, High School Librarian, and Becki Ayers, sixth grade ELA/Social Studies teacher, and Christine McKenna, parent (all mothers of VSLs) The forum discussed the characteristics of a visual-spatial learner, parenting strategies, and how we can help them be successful in the classroom. |
The Power Point shown at this event is available for viewing by clicking here
Another online resource for Visual Spatial Learners is
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Sequential or Spatial
Do you already know you're
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If you answered yes to 9 or
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Visual Spatial Learner Resources
BOOKS
Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos: How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School (Formerly Titled 'The Edison Trait') (Ballentine Books 1999),
By Lucy Jo Palladino
(Available through Schenectady County Library system)
Upside-Down
Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner (
Raising
Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
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If
You Could See the Way I Think: A Handbook for Visual-Spatial Kids
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The
Visual-Spatial Classroom: Differentiation Strategies that Engage Every Learner (
No Mind Left Behind by Adam J. Cox, Ph.D (available at Scotia Glenville HS Library - – email or call Scotia Glenville HS librarian, jtunison@sgcsd.net, 386.4265)
Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of your ADD/ADHD Child by Jeffery Freed (Available through Schenectady County Library system)
WEBSITES
Visual Spatial Resource (www.visualspatial.org)
Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page: Visual Spatial Learners (http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/visual-spatial.htm)
WEB ARTICLES
http://www.brightkidsathome.com/identify/visual-spatial.html
This is an article regarding techniques a parent used to home school their visual spatial learner. Great list of resources.
http://www.singsurf.org/brain/rightbrain.php
This is a good summary of brain biology, historical development of brain hemisphere theory, and ongoing controversy.
http://www.edvistalearningcenters.com/pdfs/TheLeft-RightBrainContinuum.pdf
An interesting article
http://www.giftedchildren.org.nz/national/article1.pdf
This article was written by Kay Pittelkow, a parent from
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/index.html
Math lessons for visual kids
An article by Rebecca Mann, a researcher in gifted education
http://www3.telus.net/giftedcanada/wrtout.PDF
An article full of practical advice from a mother who parented VSLs
VIDEOS
BLOGS
http://www.eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com
Weekly articles related to brain-based learning and learning styles, problem-solving and creativity, kids, families, and parenting, gifted and visual learners, dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, autism, and more