Podcast: Does Your Child’s School Understand?
In episode 27 of Living Life as a Visual Thinker, I answer a parent email about a second grader whose school wanted to have him tested for ADD.
In episode 27 of Living Life as a Visual Thinker, I answer a parent email about a second grader whose school wanted to have him tested for ADD.
I am willing to bet you have a little one at home that is OBSESSED with drawing princesses. We’ve bundled lots of new How to Draw videos into our latest eBook, Princesses & Enchanted Treasures! Download it and begin to draw castles, crowns, princesses and sparkly jewels.
Handwriting can sometimes be seen as unimportant in our technology driven world. For visual learners, however, the ability to quickly and legibly write down ideas that they are learning in school is essential.
From an overstimulating classroom environment to questionable discipline practices, first grade was a challenging experience for a visual learner. The expectations of high test scores and achievement just didn’t allow for differences in learning styles.
Young Rembrandts’ drawing classes are a great way for your children to exercise their right brains but the seats are limited so enroll in a class near you today!
Remember phonics? I always thought of them as the necessary evil of learning to read. You can’t think about learning to read without hearing about phonics.
In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
Visual people can feel a little bit of anxiety when it comes to writing assignments. Since visual learners operate out of the right side of their brains and the right side of the brain is all about pictures, using words to describe these pictures and organizing these words into a coherent body of writing can become a very cumbersome and laborious endeavor.
There are significant benefits to writing by hand; the better visual students write the better they learn.
This month has been all about celebrating your visual learner. Whether you need to advocate for adaptation in the classroom or just understand what it is that makes them special, being a visual learner is an amazing gift.