Does your child recall what he SEES better than what he hears? Are you teaching your visual learner using materials that let the learning “stick” in your child’s brain?

If your child has a visual learning style, he prefers pictures, images, charts, and graphs for learning. They help him better remember the information he is being taught.

Think of color-rich, image-based ways to teach information as the BEST way for teaching your visual learner.  By using a Visual means for teaching, you can improve your child’s learning a lot.

Tools for Teaching Your Visual Learner

Here are two helpful resources: A chart of possible visual tools and educational posters.

Just so you know, you can search the posters to find the exact posters you need for teaching your visual learner.

For your consideration first, this chart contains visual tools you can use for teaching topics of all kinds:

Bar Graphs	Flow Charts	Learning Manipulatives
Charts	Concept Maps	Models
Demonstrations	Highlighted texts	Multimedia
Diagrams	Picture Flash Cards	Photographs
Drawings	Image-based Computer Programs	Pie Charts
Educational DVD or Videos	Highly Formatted texts with bold-faced section titles, outlines, and graphically pleasing layout.	Rainbow Writing
Graphic Organizers	Geographic Maps	Timelines
Hands-on Experiments	Color-coded worksheets	Webquests
Iconic Images	Field Trips	Visually Rich books
Illustrations	Picture Vocabulary	Visualization techniques

A Caution about TOO much Color or Visual Clutter:

If your child has attention deficits, having too many images in a single page spread can make it hard to focus. Simply put, single images or visual elements are often better if a child is easily distracted.

As an example, there is one math textbook publisher who uses several colored blocks on every page spread.  While the variety of colors is helpful for some students, it’s distracting to others.

So, you’ll need to figure out the level of visual input which is effective for teaching your visual learner. We ended up switching to a math curriculum that had very little color. It had great diagrams, charts, and images to explain concepts.  My highly visual child preferred the less colorful format when it came to math. However, he always loved colorful, detailed images for all of his science and history content learning.

Posters for Teaching Your Visual Learner

May I suggest, one relatively inexpensive resource for teaching your visual learner is educational posters.  We had several posted on our walls. We had a large map of the world, the periodic table of elements, posters of species of snakes, birds, plants, etc.

When you have a highly visual learner, seeing concepts, categories, or information on a colorful poster can have a huge impact on learning.   In order to make it easier for you to find such teaching tools, I have provided a listing of Educational Posters for Learning below.

For each school year, depending upon what subjects you are studying, getting a poster or two is a great plan. You can search for specific TOPICs or explore educational posters below.

You can learn more information about the Visual Learning Style on our page: All About the Visual Learning Style.