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Visual-Spatial Learners

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I have a right-brain dominant school-aged child. She did fine in school until grade 3 when the big push for state-wide testing began. No more hands-on learning! No more abundance of visual aids! Now it was time to memorize data for the higher test scores the district was looking for. And learning was no longer fun but a frustration for my daughter. A little research helped me understand that her "problem" was that she was a visual-spatial learner, not an auditory-sequential learner--the type of learner public schools are designed to teach.

There are a number of good resources for better understanding visual-spatial learners and I have looked at many of them. Visual-Spatial Learners has recently come out and is one of the best tools for supporting your child if he or she is this type of learner. I purchased a number of copies to give to my daughter's teachers. I believe it has helped in their understanding of why she sometimes just doesn't "get it" in the classroom. The book has a number of illustrations that show with clarity and humor what the author is talking about--a plus for visual-spatial parents and teachers!

Although I am a parent, not an educator, I found this book extremely relevant and helpful. I have a 9-year-old daughter who is a visual-spacial learner, and we have been struggling with things like timed tests and spelling for several years. I found this book to be a big help in dealing with spelling, timed math fact tests, handwriting, and also in social studies/geography. Using these visualization techniques, we have already seen marked improvements in spelling. Even my other child, who does very well at school, was able to incorporate the visualization techniques to boost results in her studies.

I was growing increasingly frustrated with my son's academic performance. I knew he was a spatial learner but I didn't know he was soooo visual. Once I began to implement some of the suggested techniques; staircases for spelling words, and using a piece of silly putty to keep his right brain active, I saw instant improvement. This book has given me unlimited insight. A million thanks:-).

I bought this book so I could learn more about how I can best use my visual-spatial abilities. I have a great deal of difficulty learning anything with numbers and hoped to find some tips in here, but there weren't any.

If one is an elementary teacher it might be more useful, but for the lay person wanting to get a good self-help book, this is not it.

As a teacher of 5th grade students, I have had students in my classroom that were visual-spatial learners but did not realize it until reading this book. I could easily identify students as I read through the pages and remembered the frustrations of getting them to learn the information given. The strategies contained can be easily adapted in any classroom at any grade level. It works to strengthen the abilities that students already have in place. Strategies for learning important information, mulitplication facts, timed tests, organization skills are presented clearly in an easy-to-read format. I really liked the idea of making a multiplication grid and showing students how easy it is to fill it in with information they already know.I also like the Visual-Spatial questionaire for students and teachers. This can become a very useful tool in the classroom. These strategies will help student become successful with less disruptions.
This book is a "must read" for anyone,(educators, administrators, parapros, etc.) who work with students on a daily basis. I will definitely be recommeding this book to my colleagues this fall. These strategies will become part of my classroom routine beginning this fall.

This book was helpful in identifying the problem my grandson has. The book is very useful for young children who are in the first few grades of elementary school but less helpful for grades above fourth. The book seems to have been written for teachers in the lower grades of elementary school. There is some information applicable to higher grades and just being able to determine a learning problem made the book worthwhile to me.