Shawn Atwood
"A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words!"
With the discussion that we had this past week, I am even now a more firm believer that a picture really is worth a thousand words. I use pictures on the time in my teaching. As we study a particular topic, somewhere in the middle of lesson, I will often find it helpful to change the pace of a lesson for just a little bit and show a picture that ties into the lesson. I will then ask a question such as "what stands out to you in this picture?", "Come up with the moral to the story", or "If you were there, what would you think?". I have noticed that it gets the students back on board with the lesson and it can be used for a good readiness. Pictures are a great thing to use in a classroom.
2 comments:
Especially in what we do. Because we are trying to put flesh and bone on the people we teach about to show their relevance to today. Some of the people we talk about in the scriptures are like thousands of years old. A picture of the person or situation can really help the text come alive.
If you think about how much students in this day have so much access to visual media that they are very good about processing that. I learned in a brain research presentation for Dyslexia that kids today have 15% larger occipital lobe (which processes visual information) than in the past and the rate at which they take in information is much faster than it is for us. It was really interesting.
Post a Comment