Visual Leap: A Step-by-Step Guide to Visual Learning for Teachers and Students

by Jesse Berg

Overview

Visual Leap is a how-to book for teachers, students and parents interested in making learning easier. In step-by-step fashion, it presents an effective, universal, visual method to teach students how to think independently and critically, and how to organize their ideas for any instructional purpose. The visual strategies are rooted in the science of human learning and are effective because they tap into the ways that we learn naturally. The Visual Leap method simplifies teaching the skills of the Common Core State Standards and gives teachers explicit ways to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners. The strategies work across many grade levels and subject areas and for a wide variety of instructional objectives across the curriculum, such as vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, writing, speaking, and listening. Visual Leap offers easy ways to foster dynamic, creative, and critical thinking in the classroom, and provides teachers and students with a toolkit of problem-solving and learning strategies designed to serve them throughout their academic and professional lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138456495
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/27/2017
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface, Introduction: Why You? Why Now?, PART 1 Understanding the Visual Leap, PART 2 Putting Visual Inquiry into Practice, PART 3 Teaching Visual Thinking, Resources, Notes, Index, Acknowledgments, About the Author

Editorial Reviews

"Teacher and educational speaker Berg offers convincing evidence that the visual learning strategy of webbing is a useful pedagogical tool. Drawing upon his own struggles in school, Berg contends that visual learning is the best way to tap into the needs of both hemispheres of the brain so that substantial learning can happen." – Library Journal

“Visual Leap is truly brilliant! Jesse’s innovative BOWL and LADLE technique to make SOUP, his ingenious Summary Man, and all of his practical strategies for visual inquiry and transformative note-taking, make the book irresistible.” – Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D. , author of Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, and director, Gifted Development Center

“Visual Leap strategies can be a staple for any classroom teacher to help students learn to make connections and think critically. Jesse recently presented in my district and there were many aha moments as teachers saw how simple it could be to differentiate instruction and meet the challenges of the Common Core.” – Michael Coppotelli, Associate Superintendent of Schools, Archdiocese of New York

“Since the day Jesse Berg walked into my classroom, his techniques and visual learning strategies have helped my students develop the confidence they needed to succeed. Visual Leap is innovative, intuitive, and courageous and will help many more students become fully invested as owners of their education.” – Desmond Kirton, School District of Philadelphia CTE teacher, recipient of the 2015 Lindback Award for Distinguished High School Teachers

“Jesse Berg's book is a valuable addition to the much-needed topic of how to teach visual learners. It is excellently written and replete with great ideas and practical methods for teachers to use in class.” – Jeffrey Freed, M.A.T., author of Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child

“These visual learning strategies are a genuinely revolutionary step forward for writing and thinking skills across the academic spectrum. I know this from personal experience because these methods helped me unsnarl a difficult paper I was working on. Now I use the mapping techniques Jesse Berg presents in Visual Leap to plan many of my lectures and articles.” – Michael Weingrad, PhD, Professor, Portland State University

“Jesse played an integral part in my daughter's life. She has ADHD and auditory processing issues. Mr. Berg encouraged her when all others (including teachers) were telling her she would not go very far. She recently graduated from a top rated university is now working as a senior software engineer at a major corporation. Visual Leap will help many students realize that they too can put their minds to anything they want to do.” – Iris Roth, parent

“I’ve always had a hard time learning new things and concepts. But with mind mapping, and other techniques that I learned in the Visual Leap workshop, I can express the information I receive in a way that is natural for me. I always felt that I was slower than the other kids, that I was dumb. Now I feel like I can go to college. Thank you for teaching me how to learn.” – Karim Keita, high school student

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