WORKSHOP CONTENT:

- Who is the Visual Teacher?: The three-prong definition.
- Socratic Teaching: Are you a critical thinking teacher who teaches critical thinking skills?
- Inquiry-Based Instruction & Technology: Ask - Investigate - Create - Discuss - Reflect.
- Parallel Curriculum Model: Interrelated approaches to course content.
- Kaplan Layered Model for Differentiating Curriculum: A visual approach to altering the content, process and products of the curriculum.
- Depth and Complexity Thinking Processes: Abstract teaching strategies & methods of extending knowledge.
- Mind Maps, Graphic Organizers & Glyphs: Molding a visual language into learning skills.
- Basic Visual Elements
- The Visual Vocabulary of Photography
- Whole Brain Thinking: Perceptual reasoning and lateral thinking skills.
- Visual Representation: Preparing for TAKS.
- Playing Chess: Inductive/deductive reasoning and accountability.
- The Dyslexic Student: Who is (s)he and how do we bring out the best in her/him.
- Using the Internet in the Classroom: Shrinking the digital divide one student @ a time.
- Reading Visual Thoughts: How to enhance visual intuition.