Visual Thinking Strategies (eBook)

Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines

Philip Yenawine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
208 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-61250-611-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Visual Thinking Strategies explores powerful methods teachers can use to introduce art into the classroom. These unconventional teaching tools are designed for schools struggling to meet Common Core State Standards.

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2014 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice What's going on in this picture? With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It provides for open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, and significantly increases students' critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. Philip Yenawine, former education director of New York's Museum of Modern Art and cocreator of the VTS curriculum, writes engagingly about his years of experience with elementary school students in the classroom. He reveals how VTS was developed and demonstrates how teachers are using artas well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artifactsto increase a variety of skills, including writing, listening, and speaking, across a range of subjects. The book shows how VTS can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.

Autor

Philip Yenawine is cofounder of Visual Understanding in Education, a nonprofit research organization that trains teachers to use VTS.

Inhalt

CONTENTSPreface viiPermission to Wonder 1Visual Thinking Strategies: The Basics 15Applying VTS to Other Subjects 39Assessing Thinking Through Writing 75VTS, Language Development, and English Language Learners 105Learning How "to VTS" 131Effective Teaching 147AppendixIf You're Interested in Trying VTS 165Suggested Reading 179Notes 181Acknowledgments 185About the Author 187Index 189

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Schlagworte: Art appreciation • Common Core Standards • critical thinking • elementary classroom lessons • learner-centered environments • literacy skills • metacognition in children • Visualization
• ISBN-10: 1-61250-611-9 / 1612506119
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-611-1 / 9781612506111