Visual Learning and Teaching: An Essential Guide for Educators K-8 (Free Spirit Professional®)

A comprehensive guide to visual learning strategies with easy-to-use activities.

Emojis . . . avatars . . . icons . . . Our world is becoming increasingly reliant on visual communication. Yet our classrooms still heavily focus on traditional oral and written instruction. In this first-of-its-kind resource, Dr. Susan Daniels channels over twenty years of research and experience into a comprehensive guide of visual learning strategies that enable educators to rise to the challenges of 21st century education no matter what age range they serve within the K–8 population.
 
This hands-on resource helps educators create a “visual toolbox” of tools that promote visual literacy across the curriculum, and it offers interactive activities to encourage visual learning and communication in all students via mind maps and visual journals. Drawing on her experience working with gifted, creative, and twice-exceptional children, Dr. Susan Daniels has created visual learning strategies that all children can benefit from.
 
Digital content includes customizable forms and examples of completed forms as well as a PDF presentation for professional development.

Dr. Susan Daniels is a professor, author, consultant, and educational director of a psychoeducational center that specializes in the needs of gifted, creative, and twice-exceptional children.

She has been a professional development specialist for over twenty years, regularly providing workshops and training on creativity and visual learning and teaching. Susan is an avid doodler who enjoys working visually in her journals, and she is dedicated to supporting teachers’ development of visual literacy and enhanced understanding of visual learning and teaching strategies.

She lives in Berkeley, California.