VTS: Visual Thinking Strategies

 

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 Visual Thinking Strategies: Terra Foundation

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a learner-centered instructional method used to examine and find meaning in visual art. Using a painting from the Terra Foundation collection, Samuel F. B. Morse’s iconic Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33), Yenawine facilitates a VTS discussion, followed by an examination of how the discussion was constructed. Classroom and museum educators and docents interested in learner-centered teaching methods will find this video to be a very useful resource. 
 
 
QUESTION 1

Explain in your own words the meaning of VTS.
 
 
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Use the link bellow to check the Collections section of the Lowe Art Museum.

Lowe Art Museum - Collections
https://emuseum1.as.miami.edu/collections
 
 
 QUESTION 2
 
Out of the paintings shown in the Collections section, which painting did you like best? Why?
 

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VTS Discussion Process

  • Observe a painting
  • What is doing on in this picture? 
  • Facilitator paraphrases
  • What makes you think so?
  • Facilitator paraphrases
  • What more can we find?
  • Facilitator paraphrases
  • What makes you say that?
  • Facilitator paraphrases
  • What more can you find?
  • Facilitator paraphrases
  • What did you see that makes say that?
  • Facilitator paraphrases
 


QUESTION 3

What is the intention of this process?



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 Application
 
QUESTION 4


Use the link bellow to check the Collections section of the Lowe Art Museum. Choose a painting of your choice and apply the VTS- Discussion-Process listed above. Write your answers and post them on Discussion Board.

Lowe Art Museum - Collections
https://emuseum1.as.miami.edu/collections
 
 
 
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  QUESTION 5
 


Write a reflection about the VTS- Discussion-Process and how it could help children to learn better?


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VISIT TO THE LOWE 

 


 

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