BENEFITS &
OUTCOMES

Situation

You know the effectiveness of structured lessons, but don’t you find that over time they can lose their impact? That it can become a bit…mechanical? That it seems as if it’s still all talk, talk, talk about writing, writing, writing? And that your students want more?

 

Solution

By using visual tools as an integral part of direct interactive teaching you introduce a mechanism that is core to the success of each phase. Visual tools give teachers an elegant way of connecting to previous learning and stimulating interest and engagement. During the input phase, they provide the perfectly chunked and multi–model way of presenting information. As a processing tool they structure, focus and organise students’ thoughts productively. And, finally, there’s no better summarising mechanism available.    

 

Benefits

When using visual tools as a core strategy in whole class interactive teaching, you can expect to see your students:

• - Engaged and confident in new material
• - Following teacher explanations with understanding
• - Responding to questions about new material
• - Methodical in processing new material
• - Collaborative with others in exploring new concepts
• - Willing and able to recreate information into personal meaning
• - Serious and productive in self assessment

 

Links

As you can see, these benefits have an impact on other areas of learning. Click the following to read about Collaborative Learning, Thinking Skills, Learn to Learn, Behaviour Management.