Visual Learning and Teaching: An Essential Guide for Educators K-8(Free Spirit Professional®)

A comprehensive guide to visual learning strategies with easy-to-use activities. Emojis . . . avatars . . . icons . . . Our world is becoming increasingly reliant on visual communication. Yet our classrooms still heavily focus on traditional oral and written instruction. In this first-of-its-kind resource, Dr. Susan Daniels channels over twenty years of research and experience into a comprehensive guide of visual learning strategies that enable educators to rise to the challenges of 21st century education no matter what age range they serve within the K–8 population.   This hands-on resource helps educators create a “visual toolbox” of tools that promote visual literacy across the curriculum, and it offers interactive activities to encourage visual learning and communication in all students via mind maps and visual journals. Drawing on her experience working with gifted, creative, and twice-exceptional children, Dr. Susan Daniels has created visual learning strategies that all children can benefit from.   Digital content includes customizable forms and examples of completed forms as well as a PDF presentation for professional development.

About the Author :
Dr. Susan Daniels is a professor, author, consultant, and educational director of a psychoeducational center that specializes in the needs of gifted, creative, and twice-exceptional children. She has been a professional development specialist for over twenty years, regularly providing workshops and training on creativity and visual learning and teaching. Susan is an avid doodler who enjoys working visually in her journals, and she is dedicated to supporting teachers’ development of visual literacy and enhanced understanding of visual learning and teaching strategies. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Review :
“Unreservedly recommended.” “Today’s teachers need easily accessible resources at their fingertips to serve the wide range of students in their classrooms. Susan Daniels meets this challenge by deftly weaving practical, visual strategies with a deep understanding of why these visual approaches are effective for all learners. I predict that this guidebook, which is filled to the brim with creative visual communication lessons, will be a compelling addition to the shelves of contemporary educators looking to strengthen their repertoire of skills.” “I've been awaiting a visual thinking book for educators with the breadth and depth of this one. Dr. Daniels’s work made me want to read cover to cover and start again at the beginning. I’m confident Visual Learning and Teaching will be a resource for teachers for a very long time.” “I was pleased to see Susan Daniels’s Visual Learning and Teaching. Gradually we are all enlightened to the power of visual thinking. The best minds have used it to make discoveries in science, engineering, medicine, and technology and to design some of our most powerful tools. Now these ways of understanding are available to us all. In the past our schools have relied mainly on the ‘thin pipe’ to the brain of words and numbers. Now the newest visualization technologies provide us with a ‘fat pipe’ to the brain. I am enormously grateful to Dr. Daniels for providing a comprehensive and practical step-by-step pathway for teachers to help prepare students well for new worlds of work and understanding.”