Conclusion

• Conclusion: Overview
• Action Steps and Solutions
• Integrating Visual Learning into Computer Studies
• Integrating Visual Learning into Geography
• Integrating Visual Learning into Mathematics
• Integrating Visual Learning into Language Arts

Action Steps - Conclusion

Conclusion > Action Steps

In conclusion, since we are now convinced that visual learning is effective and helpful yet mostly under-utilised, we should and need to take action steps to overcome the limitations, and each do our part to promote and use more visual learning, thus making a difference in our schools.

Students

• Draw mindmaps or pictures to help yourself to see relationships better, or to understand things better (e.g. structure of brain)
• Suggest that your teachers use more visuals in class (e.g. videos, diagrams, games)
• Many students learn better when presented with visuals to aid learning.
• Experts agree that visuals will help you understand and remember concepts better.

Teachers

• Integrate more visuals into lessons that you conduct, by encouraging mind maps or drawings or using videos that are available.
• Evidence: Many students are visual learners. (About two-thirds of surveyees were visual learners)
• Experts agree that knowledge retention and grasping of concepts can be improved with the use of visuals.

So, visual learning will definitely cater to the needs of the particular type of a group of students who are primarily visual learners. They need the visual stimulus and they need visuals to help them to either recall or remember key concepts and understanding.

–- Mrs. Selvan, during interview

• Propose a paradigm shift among the school’s staff, adopting the use of more visuals to teach.
• If possible and feasible, go for courses on development of computer visuals.

Teachers probably have to be given time to go through professional development courses to learn how to create or edit videos

-- Mr Dean Ang, during interview

Directors/Deans/Subject Heads in the school

• Instruct and encourage teachers to make use of visuals in their lessons, while providing them with sufficient resources and opportunities to do so.
• Propose using more visuals to committees/higher authorities, suggesting that more be invested into getting suitable visuals to be implemented in lessons.
• Organise staff development programmes/workshops and send teachers down so as to overcome teachers’ apprehension towards using more visuals during lessons.

How to integrate Visual Learning?

We have tried and observed some instances of visual learning being integrated in the curriculum, and these can serve as examples as a starting point on how to integrate visual learning inside the curriculums in different creative ways. Please click on the links below to see how we can be integrating Visual Learning into...

Computer Studies

Instead of teaching programming with just pure text that is hard to comprehend, Raffles Institution tried teaching with Alice, a method of teaching programming in a more visual form and the results of Alice proves the importance of visual learning.

Geography

Diagrams definitely help students to fully understand certain concepts such as the forming of trenches, longshore drift, etc.

Mathematics

Using interactive geometric software such as Geogebra to construct geaphs, Raffles Institution taught Secondary Three Students fundamental geometry.

Language Arts

With the use of interesting visual activities such as drawing and art, Raffles Institution integrated visual learning into the learning of English Literature.