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Teaching With Visual Frameworks

Focused Learning and Achievement Through Instructional Graphics Co-Created by Students and Teachers

By: Christine Allen Ewy

Foreword by Robert J. Marzano

Get the big picture on co-creating instructional graphics for maximum teacher-student success!

This groundbreaking volume provides a complete guide to visual instruction and assessment using the Unit Visual Framework (UVF). Combining pictures, color, and text for meaningful representation of the core concepts in a unit of study, UVFs result in a deepened understanding by all students—regardless of language level.

Key highlights of this indispensable manual include:

Specific steps and suggestions for designing effective UVFs
Real-life examples from classrooms successfully using these visual displays
Tips for utilizing UVFs in standards-led instruction and student-directed learning
More than 100 sample graphics and UVFs

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761946656
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2002
Page Count: 224
Publication date: November 14, 2002

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"Teaching with Visual Frameworks provides case studies that demonstrate how one teacher in one classroom can make a difference by using Visual Frameworks (graphic displays) that allow teachers and students to get the results they want from the work they do."
Jessie Kalinowski, National Board Certified Teacher
Golden Apple Fellow
Educator in Residence/Illinois State Board of Education

"Teaching with Visual Frameworks embraces the increasing diversity of our student population, values students as multicultural resources, and honors students as evaluators. These unique attributes make this book an invaluable guide for educators across settings and contexts."
Margo Gottlieb, Director, Assessment and Evaluation
Illinois Resource Center
Des Plaines, IL

Get the big picture on co-creating instructional graphics for maximum teacher-student success!

Visual representations of course content are essential tools in today's classrooms. They can offset the challenges associated with teaching diverse student populations while simultaneously bringing instructional techniques into greater harmony with the growing influence of technology and the visual media on the way students process information.

Key highlights of this indispensable manual include:

Specific steps and suggestions for designing effective UVFs
Real-life examples from classrooms successfully using these visual displays
Tips for utilizing UVFs in standards-led instruction and student-directed learning
More than 100 sample graphics and UVFs

Key features

Focuses on teacher-student collaborations that reinforce engaged and active learning
Original graphics appeal to second-language learners and multiple-intelligence learning styles that favor visual/spatial, mathematical/logical, and verbal/linguistic methods
Foreword by Robert Marzano
More than 100 visual framework illustrations by Katrina A. Ewy

Author(s)

Christine Allen Ewy

Christine F. Ewy offers expertise from 30 years as a classroom teacher of pre-school through adults, instructional resource teacher, curriculum and inservice specialist, building and district-level administrator, adjunct professor, and consultant. Her methods focus on standards-based curriculum development that incorporates engaged learning, integrated technology, graphic design, and strong assessment components. Language acquisition, literacy development, and bilingual education are also important components of her staff development and consulting projects.

Table of Contents

Index

Foreword

Introduction

Ch. 1: Unit Visual Framework: Making Ongoing Sense of a Unit of Study

Ch. 2: Focus: The Basis for Coherence and Cohesion

Ch. 3: Getting Started

Ch. 4: Co-Development and Ownership, Essential Requirements

Ch. 5: Visual Consistencies: Cohesion Building Blocks

Ch. 6: A Teacher's Story: Moving From Beginning to Experienced Use of UVFs

Ch. 7: Getting the Results You Want

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Reviews

"Teaching with Visual Frameworks provides case studies that demonstrate how one teacher in one classroom can make a difference by using Visual Frameworks (graphic displays) that allow teachers and students to get the results they want from the work they do."

Jessie Kalinowski, National Board Certified Teacher, Golden Apple Fellow
Educator in Residence/Illinois State Board of Education

"Teaching with Visual Frameworks embraces the increasing diversity of our student population, values students as multicultural resources, and honors students as evaluators. These unique attributes make this book an invaluable guide for educators across settings and contexts."

Margo Gottlieb, Director, Assessment and Evaluation
Illinois Resource Center, Des Plaines, IL

"The system and techniques described in this book mark the beginning of what might be nothing short of a revolution in classroom pedagogy. The reader will find this book not only highly practical but also quite provocative in its implications."

From the Foreword by Robert J. Marzano, Adjunct Associate Professor
Cardinal Stritch University

"Teaching with Visual Frameworks provides a breath of fresh air to the dialogue on strategies to improve student learning. As I read, I realized that the author’s innovative visual framework for learning was a previously missing tool in my bag of educational teaching/learning tricks."

Margaret Byrnes, Managing Associate
Quality Education Associates

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