Assignment:
Referring back to the videos, articles, etc. that you read/watched about VTS, discuss the implications and use in your classroom of implementing and using VTS. Add at least one website link, with a brief description about it, that demonstrates a way to use VTS in a classroom. Respond to 2 other participants.
My Response:
VTS is a low-barrier entry point for students to interact both with art and content in a non-threatening environment. Especially in today's culture of high-stakes testing and a relentless focus on specific skill performance, such as the focus on fluency in reading in the elementary world in Iowa, VTS gives a way for students who traditionally have been discouraged from participating or have come to define themselves as non-learners to participate again and begin to feel competent and knowledgeable.
I would encourage my staff to read the lesson plans and articles found on this website as a brief introduction to ways to begin to incorporate VTS in their classrooms:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/teaching_visual_thinking_strategies.shtmlAnd then would guide them to read the research behind VTS found here:
https://vtshome.org/research/
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