Visualize Your Teaching

Visualize Your Teaching offers a unique way of helping educators see their own teaching so they can strengthen their practice.

Author Kyle Ezell uses a series of simple but compelling black and white graphics to take you through teaching’s parts, flows, and signals. He demonstrates that it’s important to be aware of what’s happening when playing distinctly different parts as you teach, depending on the context. Flows connect parts together over a lesson. He shows how to visualize the impact of how flows connect over a range of circumstances. You also need to be aware of how you respond to many different signals that appear, pushing and pulling the lesson plan.

Appropriate for teachers of all grade levels and subject areas, the book provides teaching scenario prompts for you to practice playing all the parts through self-observation and opportunities for you to diagram your own teaching. As you work through the pages, you’ll be able to visualize your performance the way athletes do, becoming more in tune with yourself. With this book as your batting cage, you will be increasing your impact on students in no time!

Once a solidly marginal teacher, Kyle Ezell, EdD, became an inductee into The Ohio State University’s prestigious Academy of Teaching, receiving many awards for his role as an educator. A professor of city and regional planning in Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture in the College of Engineering since 2005, Dr. Ezell serves as a Faculty Foundation, Impact, and Transformation (FIT) Program mentor for new and developing teachers at Ohio State and as a Senior Affiliate with the university’s Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning, and enjoys consulting K-12 educators in visualizing their teaching.