One of the teacher leaders I work with, Rebecca Arlander (social studies teacher from Washington Middle School), recently did a presentation on Questioning for our KMR Reflect, Learn, and Teach course. She used photos and WRAITEC question stems to demonstrate how she helped students develop their own questions and activate critical thinking skills.
I'm currently teaching an after school literacy class and wanted to adapt the photo idea to increase critical thinking, so I started looking for more resources, and I found THIS! The New York Times collaborates with Visual Thinking Strategies to bring teachers one cool, uncaptioned photo a week and an opportunity to have students engage with one another about the photo.
Teachers ask 3 simple questions:
The conversation that results is magical.
I am having so much fun looking through all the images in this series to find good ones for my students! There's also a slide show of 40 favorite images that you can check out.
Learn how other teachers use the photo-of-the-week for inspiration.
I'm currently teaching an after school literacy class and wanted to adapt the photo idea to increase critical thinking, so I started looking for more resources, and I found THIS! The New York Times collaborates with Visual Thinking Strategies to bring teachers one cool, uncaptioned photo a week and an opportunity to have students engage with one another about the photo.
Teachers ask 3 simple questions:
- What’s going on in this picture?
- What do you see that makes you say that?
- What more can you find?
The conversation that results is magical.
I am having so much fun looking through all the images in this series to find good ones for my students! There's also a slide show of 40 favorite images that you can check out.
Learn how other teachers use the photo-of-the-week for inspiration.