How can you make even the most simple classroom resources work more effectively for you?
In this webinar, Stephanie Dimond-Bayir shares ideas on how to generate engaging activities for your students from a single, stationary image. As well as these practical tips, she also explores how using these activities based on simple resources can tie closely into more sophisticated learning outcomes.
So, how can teachers best exploit an interesting image in the classroom?
Images can form a great basis for speaking activities that target different skills. For example, why not use visualisation so that students personalise the experience? Have students close their eyes and imagine they are the photographer. How do they feel? What are they thinking? If they were to retake the picture from another angle, what could they see then?
Images can also be used to develop vocabulary – Ask students in pairs or groups to label every item in an image, encouraging them not to avoid those that they’re not sure about or that look unusual. They can then develop a quiz for other students to identify these items.
You can also use a stationary image to stimulate writing – creating captions for pictures, or getting different groups of students to use the image as a basis for a piece of writing in different genres (a story, a news article, etc.). Afterwards, students can compare the styles of writing and pick out the key differences.
Find out more about the above activities, and how you can make the most of the ‘power of the image’ in your classes by using Learning Oriented Assessment principles, by watching the webinar recording below.
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