Understanding the Visual Learner

We all see the world differently and we all learn differently, any number of us can look at any one piece of data and each have our own very unique perspective and experience of the information before us. It is what makes this world so amazing and a never ending wonderment. It is why entertainment and art is often times so diverse, and also why misunderstanding one another is so very common.

Some of us have to have a more visual setting of what is being presented because of the way our brains are wired. Others have to read or some have to hear what the information is. It can totally change a person's life if they find out that it's "o.k." to maybe need to view the piece in their own particular way of seeing or hearing or feeling it. People are usually given the message that they are wrong if for instance they are in a class room and they are being read to ad-nausem and they cannot grasp the data whatsoever because it is only an auditory experience. If you let this same person have visualization of this information the whole lesson becomes clear to them and the complete experience has been opened up for them to participate and learn.

For a visual learner, the world needs to be presented in front of them in a picture type of setting. Not literally, of course, although at times that's what's needed. It could be presented or interpreted in colors or even abstract data, but it just needs to be visual, the data needs to be seen with the persons very own eyes or in 5 minutes, they are not going to remember or even care about what was just before them. So for any experience to really "mean" anything to someone who learns visually; they need that picture or video or drawing, etc. for them to interpret the information for themselves and learn or not learn it, but to digest it first.

A problem presents itself when you have a number of different students to teach and limited time and resources. Because you will usually have a mix number of visual, audio, touch, etc. learners in the environment and need to have everyone on board with the venue for it to be successful. That's why whenever you make any presentations or study plans and the like; you have to try to "please the masses" and have a little bit of all of the aspects of sensory input in your bag of tricks.