Visual Leap: A Step-by-Step Guide to Visual Learning for Teachers and Students

By Berg, Jesse

Publishers Summary:
Visual Leap is a how-to book for teachers, students and parents interested in making learning easier. In step-by-step fashion, it presents an effective, universal, visual method to teach students how to think independently and critically, and how to organize their ideas for any instructional purpose. The visual strategies are rooted in the science of human learning and are effective because they tap into the ways that we learn naturally. The Visual Leap method simplifies teaching the skills of the Common Core State Standards and gives teachers explicit ways to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners. The strategies work across many grade levels and subject areas and for a wide variety of instructional objectives across the curriculum, such as vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, writing, speaking, and listening. Visual Leap offers easy ways to foster dynamic, creative, and critical thinking in the classroom, and provides teachers and students with a toolkit of problem-solving and learning strategies designed to serve them throughout their academic and professional lives.

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ISBN
9781942108078 9781942108085
Publisher
Lamprey & Lee: Bibliomotion


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Reviewed on September 15, 2015  |  Social Sciences

Teacher and educational speaker Berg offers convincing evidence that the visual learning strategy of webbing is a useful pedagogical tool. Drawing upon his own struggles in school, Berg contends that visual learning is the best way to tap into the needs of both hemispheres of the brain so that substantial learning can happen. An introduction to visual inquiry leads into a discussion of the demands of visually orient...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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