Study tips for visual learners
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Visual learners mainly use sight and images to learn. This study tips sheet provides 17 tips for visual learners to improve their academic performance, including getting an eye exam, using different colored notes, using flashcards and drawings, and finding interactive visual activities. The tips encourage finding the right balance of visual study techniques mixed with a student's own strategies. While visual learning is important, students often use a combination of visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles.
Study tips for visual learners
- 1. STUDY TIPS SHEET FOR VISUAL LEARNERS Visual learners mainly use their sight, images and visual concepts to memorise and learn. After students know their type of learning, they should look for some information, strategies and tips to improve their learning. In this Sheet we are going to give you some useful tips to improve your academic performance: 1. Go to the eye doctor to make sure you do not need glasses 2. Buy some artificial tears to prevent your eye from drying after an excessive use 3. Always have enough light in your study area 4. Arrive early to class so you can sit near the teacher and the blackboard 5. When the teacher explains, pay attention to all the visual resources (power points, slideshows, etc.) but don’t forget to listen! 6. Rewrite your class notes so they are more easy to read, it will allow your sight to relax 7. Summarise everything, try to make it visually attractive 8. Underline and write your notes with different colours (e.g. examples in green, definitions in red, specific dates in black) 9. Use flashcards and drawings to link concepts with images 10. Complement your notes with all sort of visual complements (documentaries, videos, images, etc.) 11. Use acronyms and mnemonics to memorise a list of concepts (e.g. USA United States of America) 12. To get rid of the most difficult tests, record yourself reading the lesson, then listen to your recording and read to your notes at the same time 13. Avoid any visual distraction in your studying area 14. Create and hang posters in your study area with all your tasks and the concepts which you find harder to memorise 15. Search for interactive activities which involve a lot of visual learning, such as linking images to concepts (vocabulary)
- 2. 16. Try to find out museums and places related to the topic or topics which you are studying 17. Make sure that your leisure activities both before and after studying don’t involve much visual effort (television, videogames, cinema, painting, etc.) These tips are not to be strictly followed. We recommend each single student to take a look at them, and try them. You can also mix them with your own studying strategies, and maybe you will improve even further. Remember that almost all students are a combination of the 3 types of learning, so don’t forget about the other two. Credits Cristina Llordés Morell Nogay Ndiaye Mir Josefa Peroy Mestre