Visual Thinking Strategies: Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines

Yenawine, Philip

ISBN 10: 1612506097 / ISBN 13: 9781612506098

Verlag: Harvard Education Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 2014

Beschreibung

3rd printing. text has some underlining. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have light wear.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5032710

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Visual Thinking Strategies: Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines
• Verlag: Harvard Education Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1612506097
• ISBN-13: 9781612506098
• Einband: Trade Paperback
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 3rd Printing
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

“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 art―as well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artefacts―to 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-centred environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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