*Visual Art*

REASONS why you should visit our Visual Art Specialist classroom:

Visual Art is an exciting and enjoyable approach to teaching and learning. Children are drawn to visual and tactile media like moths to a candle. They need little encouragement and learning begins to manifest itself through visual thinking.

Like all of us, children respond to and function within a visual world. For the human condition, graphic elements are our natural state. We communicate and express ourselves visually. Text, for example, is a visual form. Its graphic elements are recognized as phonics (grapho-phonic) where sound and auditory definition is associated to the graphic elements of letters, words, sentences and fully-blown texts. Our ‘mind’s eye’ makes a connection between the shapes and arrangements of single letters and letter strings to derive meaning.

This is equally true for other forms of symbolic and visual representation. Mathematics is a classic example. However, for the purpose of this post, the point is to stress the value of learning and teaching in a visual context through utilizing our inherent visual thinking skill.

With this in mind, activities centred on visual expression and cognition provide us with opportunity to develop visual thinking processes as a communicative form of expression, problem solving the aesthetic appreciation. Take a look at our Visual Art classroom links and remember; people have built worlds with vision (and some ink). Check out our little visualisers here tlpsart.edublogs.org. Also, see our blogroll and Page links for the hyper-jump :-) into our visual arts.

What are your thoughts about Visual Thinking? Comment please.

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Altan.