The visual-spatial learning style is one of eight types of learning styles defined in Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Visual-spatial learning style, or visual-spatial intelligence, refers to a person's ability to perceive, analyze, and understand visual information in the world around them. Essentially, they can picture concepts with their mind's eye.
Why is spatial intelligence important?
We visually perceive and interpret the world around us is an important quality to have.
In arts, the ability to transfer a vision to a painting, sculpture, or film is a key quality.
Careers such as architecture require a person to transfer a vision of a structure into a blueprint.
Spatial intelligence is even used by average people to remember small, but important facts; like how to travel from your school to your house. Everyone uses spatial intelligence in everyday life.
How Visual-Spatial Learners Learn
People with visual-spatial intelligence learn best when taught using written, modelled, or diagrammed instruction, and visual media. Visually and spatially talented students have a good visual memory for details. They do less well with auditory-sequential teaching methods such as lecture, recitation, drill, and repetition.
Children with this style may do better with whole word recognition rather than phonics.
They may not perform well with spelling and handwriting.
When learning math, they benefit from using manipulatives and story problems instead of performing equations.
They are likely to do better at geometry.
They enjoy puzzles, mazes, maps, and building blocks.
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