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Cutler, Kay M.; Moeller, Mary R. – Educational Leadership, 2017
"In many ways, images are the vehicle of comprehension, thought, and action. We integrate parts of images, we remember images, we manipulate images." This quote from James E. Zull clarifies the rationale for a discussion protocol called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), in which teachers focus students' attention on an image and ask…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Thinking Skills, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Cappello, Marva; Lafferty, Karen E. – Reading Teacher, 2015
Teachers can capitalize on the overwhelmingly visual nature of contemporary society for learning and teaching through integrating photography in their classroom instruction. In offering an alternative pathway for acquiring and expressing knowledge, photography has the potential to strengthen instruction across disciplines by drawing on multiple…
Descriptors: Photography, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science, Grade 4
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Watanabe, Tad – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) (CCSSI 2010) identifies the strategic use of appropriate tools as one of the mathematical practices and emphasizes the use of pictures and diagrams as reasoning tools. Starting with the early elementary grades, CCSSM discusses students' solving of problems "by drawing." In later…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students