Spatial Intelligence: Things to know for the IELTS Test. You remember things visually, including exact sizes and shapes of objects. You like posters, charts, and graphics. You should be good at Task 1 in the academic test. You like any kind of visual clues. You enjoy drawing. Effective techniques of enhancing your learning using your spatial intelligence include creating and/or using pictures, maps, diagrams, and graphs as you learn things. Other suggestions:

* Write a language experience story and then illustrate it (or draw the story and then write about it).

* Color code words so each syllable is a different color.

* Write a word on the blackboard with a wet finger. Visualize the word as it disappears. See if you can spell it afterwards.

* Take a survey. Put the information in a bar or line chart.

* Write words vertically.

* Cut out words from a magazine and use them in a letter.

* Visualize spelling words.

* Use colorful newspapers like MX or The Economist.

* Use crossword puzzles.

This type of intelligence has to do with vision and spatial judgment. People with strong visual-spatial intelligence are typically very good at visualizing and mentally manipulating objects. Those with strong spatial intelligence are often proficient at solving puzzles. They have a strong visual memory and are often artistically inclined. Those with visual-spatial intelligence also generally have a very good sense of direction and may also have very good hand-eye coordination, although this is normally seen as a characteristic of the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Hiowever, some critics point out the high correlation between the spatial and mathematical abilities, which seems to disprove the clear separation of the intelligences as Gardner theorized. Since solving a mathematical problem involves reassuringly manipulating symbols and numbers, spatial intelligence is involved in visually changing the reality. A thorough understanding of the two intelligences precludes this criticism, however, as the two intelligences do not precisely conform to the definitions of visual and mathematical abilities. Although they may share certain characteristics, they are easily distinguished by several factors, and there are many with strong logical-mathematical intelligence.

In the classroom, students with high levels of Visual-Spatial intelligence learn from word puzzles and reforming pasts of test (for example, paragraph sentence order) and they beefit from well organized board work.

Careers that suit those with this intelligence include artists, engineers, and architects.