Teaching With Visual Frameworks

This book provides a 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. The manual includes 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, and more than 100 sample graphics and UVFs. Seven chapters discuss: (1) "Unit Visual Framework: Making Ongoing Sense of a Unit of Study"; (2) "Focus: The Basis for Coherence and Cohesion"; (3) "Getting Started"; (4) "Co-Development and Ownership: Essential Requirements"; (5) "Visual Consistencies: Cohesion Building Blocks"; (6) "A Teacher's Story: Moving from Beginning to Experienced Use of UVFs"; and (7) "Getting the Results You Want." Three appendixes contain a structured student interview, teaching with UVFs implementation rubric, and software and hardware resources. (Contains 42 references.) (SM).

Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it. This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of visual and multimodal texts, including historical fiction, picture books, advertisements, websites, comics, graphic novels, news reports, and film. Each unit of study presented contains suggestions for selecting cornerstone texts and visual images and launching the unit, as well as lesson plans, text sets, and analysis guides. These units are designed to be readily adapted to fit the needs of a variety of settings and grade levels.

The social world is a big place, and the information can feel overwhelming at first. This two-set collection of 26 core practical frameworks (13 frameworks per set) is a powerhouse of visual teaching tools that includes the most important conceptual and treatment frameworks within the Social Thinking Methodology. Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 2 contains 13 of our most popular treatment frameworks to promote social emotional learning. Each provides visually scaffolded information to introduce core social thinking concepts, such as perspective taking and social communication, while illuminating different types of friendships and executive function. Treatment frameworks are for direct use with social learners as they develop and expand their understanding of how the complex social world works and how to navigate to self-regulate within it. In a ready-to-display format, each set of 13 frameworks presents—in both graphics and words—a variety of concepts, their purpose, instructions for use, recommendations for related books, trainings, free articles and webinars, and connections to other frameworks. Set 2 contains the following 13 frameworks: · 3 Part of Play/Activity · Boring Moments · I Don’t Care Scale · 5 Steps of Being with Others · 6 Levels of the Friendship Pyramid · 4 Steps of Face-to-Face Communication · Ask a Question, Add a Thought · Solving Problems · Learning How to Be Comfortable with Discomfort · Ladder of Success · The Spiral of Social Failure · The Spiral of Social Success · Independence Mountain The majority of frameworks were first presented in print products published by Think Social Publishing, Inc., and/or in webinars, articles, On Demand courses, and conference/livestream events that can be found on the Social Thinking website. We strongly urge interventionists to explore these source products for deeper instruction, examples, and learning for using the frameworks in practice.

EDUCATION / Arts in Education

The framework for teaching document is an evolving instrument, but the core concepts and architecture (domains, components, and elements) have remained the same.Major concepts of the Common Core State Standards are included. For example, deep conceptual understanding, the importance of student intellectual engagement, and the precise use of language have always been at the foundation of the Framework for Teaching, but are more clearly articulated in this edition.The language has been tightened to increase ease of use and accuracy in assessment.Many of the enhancements to the Framework are located in the possible examples, rather than in the rubric language or critical attributes for each level of performance.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then visual frameworks may be seen as being useful teaching tools. Teachers can use these graphic organizers to demonstrate how ideas and information about a specific problem, passage, text, or unit of study is related and organized. This work introduces 12 visual frameworks, and describes and demonstrates how they can be used with the whole class, small groups, or individuals. Practical tips and specific examples from several curriculum areas are provided - assessment techniques are also covered.

The framework for teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction that are grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. The framework may be used for many purposes, but its full value is realized as the foundation for professional conversations among practitioners as they seek to enhance their skill in the complex task of teaching. The framework may be used as the foundation of a school's or district's recruitment and hiring, mentoring, coaching, professional development, and teacher evaluation processes, thus linking all those activities together and helping teachers become more thoughtful practitioners. The actions teachers can take to improve student learning are clearly identified and fall under four domains of teaching responsibility: Planning and Preparation, the School Environment, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities. Within the domains are 22 components and 76 descriptive elements that further refine our understanding of what teaching is all about. The framework defines four levels of performance (Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, and Distinguished) for each element, providing a valuable tool that all teachers can use. This second edition has been revised and updated and also includes frameworks for school specialists, such as school nurses, counselors, library and media specialists, and instructional coaches. Comprehensive, clear, and applicable to teaching across the K-12 spectrum, the framework for teaching described in this book is based on the PRAXIS III: Classroom Performance Assessment criteria developed by Educational Testing Service and is compatible with INTASC standards.

The social world is a big place, and the information can feel overwhelming at first. This two-set collection of 26 core practical frameworks is a powerhouse of visual teaching tools that includes the most important conceptual and treatment frameworks within the Social Thinking Methodology. Each framework provides a blueprint or visual support related to one specific aspect within the complex social world, in addition to high-level, basic instruction. The collection includes a broad array of frameworks that range from assessing learners’ needs to breaking down social communication, friendship, anxiety management, being with others, and many more to make the implicit explicit for social emotional learning. Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 1 contains our most popular and helpful core tools with two types of frameworks. · Seven conceptual frameworks provide information specifically for interventionists to help them explore the social emotional assessment and treatment needs of specific individuals. These can be used during student study team meetings, IEP meetings, and to guide interventionists’ exploration of individuals’ social emotional development and treatment needs during the assessment process. · Six treatment frameworks help get started teaching core social emotional concepts directly to social learners: exploring emotions, size of the problem, and situation-based social expectations. 7 Conceptual Frameworks · 3 Aspects of Social Learning · The ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition · Social Thinking-Social Learning Tree · Social Thinking-Social Competency Model · Social Thinking Connected Frameworks · Building Blocks for Social Development of Young Children · Group Collaboration, Play and Problem Solving Scale (GPS) for Early Learners 6 Treatment Frameworks · Core Social Thinking Vocabulary · Basic Feelings & Emotions Scale · Size of the Problem and Size of the Reaction Thermometer · Social Emotional Chain Reaction · Social Behavior Map-General Observation (SBM-GO) · Social Behavior Map-GO “Lining Up to Leave the Classroom (Filled-in Template) Each framework has a graphic front and narrative back side. The front side provides a visual framework for use in team meetings with fellow interventionists or for use with students. The back side details the purpose of the framework along with instructions for using the framework, recommended age ranges, examples of how the information can guide teaching to foster development of social competencies, and recommendations for free articles and webinars, connections to other frameworks in the collection, and suggested books, online training courses and livestream events related to the concept. The majority of frameworks were first presented in print products published by Think Social Publishing, Inc., and/or in webinars, articles, On Demand courses, and conference/livestream events that can be found on the Social Thinking website. We strongly urge interventionists to explore these source products for deeper instruction, examples, and learning for using the frameworks in practice.

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.