Visual - Spatial Intelligence

Visual Spatial Intelligence
By Daniela Mendiola.
The article explains the concept of Visual Spatial Intelligence. It explains the traits of these learners and how color, distance and images excite them. Some tips to increase their concentration in class are also mentioned.
Learners with Visual Spatial Intelligence are the artists. They learn best through drawings and visual aids. They have the ability to visualize the world in images. Learners with high Visual Spatial Intelligence enjoy shapes, patterns, designs, and colors.
They visualize, dream, imagine, navigate, and draw. They have an immense capacity to form mental images. Their imagination makes them creative. They like posters, pictures, movies, visual presentations. They can notice minute details which any other person would miss.
Visual Spatial Intelligence is normally found in painters, architects, theoretical physicists, navigators, graphic artists, designers, cartographers and chess players. Some of the famous personalities with excellent Visual Spatial Intelligence are Monet, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Frank Lloyd Wright, Steven Spielberg and Cezanne.
The following traits can help to identify learners with predominant visual spatial intelligence:
• They are good at solving puzzles;
• Enjoy geometry, drawing, painting, sculpting, photography;
• Good at reading maps, taking directions and remembering places and routes;
• Are good drivers;
• Appreciate color, shape, pattern;
• Think in pictures, images;
• Fast speakers;
• Appreciate video recordings over just sound recordings;
• Pay attention to visual details.
The following activities can be undertaken to increase the effectiveness of learning with students with Visual Spatial Intelligence:
• Teach reasoning and logic using flow charts;
• Illustrate what is being taught;
• Use lot of colored pens while teaching;
• Play Videos in class;
• Visit art galleries, museums;
• Highlight, underline, and draw images while teaching them;
• Use maps and help them chart the process or fundamental being taught.