Posted by libby on Jun 24, 2020; 5:04pm
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/Assignment-6-VTS-Ellen-Stoltz-McGinity-tp15506p15984.html

Hello,

I also really liked the comment about students wanting to make sense of what they see. What an interesting idea! Of course we want to understand what we are seeing around us. Art can often times leave us with questions that we want to have an answer for. For example, we want to know why the people look sad or what they are eating or what it is they are celebrating. We can make predictions and dig into our own background to come up with answers. As the little boy in the video said "I think they are at a cemetery." It became clear to me that this little boy has some sort of connection to a cemetery and what happens there. He was able to apply his own knowledge and his own memory in order to interpret the image he was looking at. The website you found looks very helpful as well! Some great options to further teacher understanding and build the comfort to use VTS in our own classrooms.