Teachers often present information verbally and linguistically. However, many of our students are visual learners. A substantial amount of our brain power is devoted to visual processing. When we add a visual component, a drawing component, to what we are teaching, student recall increases.
Consider chunking your lesson plan:
- Direct teach for 10 minutes.
- Stop for 3 minutes (set a timer).
- Instruct students to draw a picture of what you’ve taught them in the last ten minutes.
- Have students share their picture with a partner (2 minutes).
- Ask a few students to share and explain their photos (summarize).
- Continue with the next chunk of direct teaching or move onto another activity.
When students are reading, or reviewing previously read material, support all student – especially your visual learners:
- Have them draw pictures of what they are reading.
- Have them illustrate their notes with drawings that represent the concepts and facts in their notes.
Although represented in black and white here, this drawing – as well as many of the illustrations throughout my book Special Needs in the General Classroom, 3rd. Edition – was originally created in color.
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