Description
Presenters: Karen McDowell, BS; Demond Lloyd, BA
Classroom examples will illustrate how the inclusion of visual thinking elements such as time, space, perspective and movement is essential to the student’s comprehension of academic context. Emphasis will be placed upon facilitating and incorporating such visual-spatial capacities as big-picture thinking, visualization of images in story content, organization and mapping in writing development, the use of visuals as an alternative means of assessment, fostering “ah-ha” moments in learning, and drawing connections between past , present, and future knowledge and experiences. Videos and lesson plan examples will show how to effectively “pull” this type of content from existing standardized lessons and deepen understanding of material through strengthening this crucial foundational capacity.
