“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”—B.B. King Gift yourself the beauty of VTS this April. Please join us:) Beginner Practicum Online, Six Sessions Class time: 7:00am – 9:00am Pacific Time, April 7 - 17, MTTh Advanced Practicum Online, Eight Sessions Class time: 9:00am – 11::00am Pacific Time, April 7-22, MTTh For more info and to register, go to vtshome.org/events Image from the VTS Curriculum - The Banjo Lesson, Henry Ossawa Tanner #visualthinkingstrategies #vts #inclusiveconversations #belonging #lookingclosely #listening #looking
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)
职业培训和指导
Bolinas，CA 411 位关注者
We believe thoughtfully facilitated discussions of art make education more engaging, inclusive, and equitable.
关于我们
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) transforms the way students think and learn by providing training and curriculum for people to facilitate discussions of visual art that significantly increase student engagement, performance, and enjoyment of learning. We train educators to utilize the VTS method so that they are more effective in their own contexts and communities. Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is an educational non-profit that trains educators in schools, museums, and institutions of higher education to use a student-centered facilitation method to create inclusive discussions. Our intensive professional development programs provide individuals with the tools to become skilled facilitators of complex conversations. Our accessible classroom curricula are supportive of critical thinking, visual literacy, communication, and collaboration skills. VTS is much more than an art curriculum; as a facilitation method and professional development program that fosters collaborative, inclusive, community-building dialogue, VTS has the power to change the way we relate to one another as teachers, students, and colleagues. VTS is comprised of arts and education professionals that specialize in deep listening and responsive teaching practices; we are passionate about sharing what we have learned with others. For over 30 years, VTS has fostered reflective communities of practice in educational environments including classrooms, museums, and hospitals around the world. VTS is uniquely suited to support educators as they rise to meet the challenges and opportunities of a 21st century education.
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https://vtshome.org/
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 职业培训和指导
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Bolinas，CA
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 1996
- 领域
- art、education、k-12、museums、non-profit、image selection、facilitation、online learning、DEIA、coaching、medicine和queer
地点
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)员工
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Kai Monet
transformational educator | she/her
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Tara Geer
Director, Visual Thinking Strategies; Artist; Instructor in the Art & Art Education program, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Renee Lievens
Yoga docent & empowerment coach. Voor de ondernemende mens, die lichter wil leven én meer wil ontspannen en genieten.
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Tatiana Iman
Artist + Educator // Curator // Consultant
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Is it a hedgehog? A groundhog? A capybara? A porcupine? Find out at VTS? Look Club Online -? Wednesday, March 19, 1pm PT/4pm ET. We are heading over to the Adirondacks with educators from The Wild Center observing critters and nature. Please j??in us for the conversation. Register at vtshome.org/events (link in bio) #visualthinkingstrategies #vtslookclubonline #vtslookclub #visualliteracy #inclusiveconversations #belonging #lookingclosely #listening #looking #thewildcenter #wildcenter?
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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.? - Thomas Fuller Ahoy VTS Facilitators! ?Deepen, strengthen, and refine your skills in a supportive community of learners and coaches at the April Advanced Practicum Online. This is an opportunity to practice listening to organize, link and contextualize comments. We have a space for you! Participate in 8 sessions with lots of time for practice and coaching. Sessions begin on April 7, 9 am PT/Noon ET. Tiered pricing available. Register: https://lnkd.in/gS6PMCdw... Image from the VTS Curriculum - Ship of Fools, Carl Dobsky #visualthinkingstrategies #vts #inclusiveconversations #belonging #lookingclosely #listening #looking
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THERE ARE A FEW MORE SPACES AVAILABLE. PLEASE JOIN US:) ? VTS Beginner Practicum Online –? April 2025 Class time: 7:00am – 9:00am Pacific Time · ? Monday, April 7 · ? Tuesday, April 8 · ? Thursday, April 10 · ? Monday, April 14 · ? Tuesday, April 15 · ? Thursday, April 17 The VTS Beginner Practicum is designed for ALL educators (no art background necessary) to facilitate effective VTS discussions on their own. This course is an entry to basic, evidence-based, group-learning facilitation skills using art. Your small peer group will be guided through exercises, image discussions, reflections, readings, live facilitation practice with individualized coaching, and the research foundations of what we do. ? The VTS Beginner Practicum Online welcomes newcomers and those with minimal experience in VTS.? For more info and to register, go to vtshome.org/events ? #visualthinkingstrategies #vts #inclusiveconversations #belonging #lookingclosely #listening #looking
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March madness - there’s something wild in the air! What could it be? It’s the upcoming VTS Look Club Online - Wednesday, March 19, 1pm PT/4pm ET -? with The Wild Center, a natural history museum located in the Adirondack mountains in New York State. This science museum offers people experiences, exhibits and programs designed to open new ways to look into relationships with nature. The Wild Center’s education staff has been exploring and applying VTS to science objects, live animal viewing and exhibits since 2008. Curious how VTS feels and looks when applied to a content area other than art? We invite you to walk on the wild side and join us this month! Register at vtshome.org/events (link in bio) VTS Look Club Online is an opportunity to come together as a community, to practice looking, talking, listening, and engaging with art and each other. This month we’ll be engaging with science content. #visualthinkingstrategies #vtslookclubonline #vtslookclub #visualliteracy #inclusiveconversations #belonging #lookingclosely #listening #looking #thewildcenter #wildcenter?
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Calling VTS facilitators! Come together to deepen and refine your skills in a supportive community of learners and coaches. Practice listening to organize, link and contextualize comments. A few spots left in our April Adv Practicum, beginning 4/7 9 a.m. Pacific Time/Noon Eastern Time. We hope to see you! Participate in 8 sessions with lots of time for practice and coaching. Tiered pricing available. Link to register: https://lnkd.in/ew_py9eC #visualthinkingstrategies?#vts?#inclusiveconversations?#belonging?#lookingclosely?#listening?#looking
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Where’s everyone going? We’re headed over to Look Club Online with The Ringling Museum of Art!? Join us and bring your friends! Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 1:00pm PT / 3:00pm CT / 4:00pm ET Register at vtshome.org/events (link in bio) Image from the VTS Curriculum Drum Major, Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1950, Photograph The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images ? #visualthinkingstrategies #vtslookclubonline #vtslookclub #visualliteracy #inclusiveconversations #belonging #lookingclosely #listening #looking #ringlingmuseumofart #ringlingmuseum?
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Join the conversation next Wednesday, Feb 19 as the VTS Look Club heads south to Sarasota, FL to feast our eyes on a few treasures from The Ringling Museum of Art. @theringling VTS Look Club Online is an opportunity to come together as a community, to practice looking, talking, listening, and engaging with art and each other. We hope you can join us. Register at vtshome.org/events (link in bio) #visualthinkingstrategies #vtslookclubonline #vtslookclub #visualliteracy #inclusiveconversations #belonging #lookingclosely #listening #looking #ringlingmuseumofart #ringlingmuseum
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Not knowing is a skill “I don't know" is a thought category in Abigail Housen's manual of all the things people say in front of artworks. Her research, which grew into VTS, lays out how comments change as people spend more time looking at art. Interestingly, beginner viewers do not say "I don't know" in any form. They are certain about what they see. They list what's there, and if you ask for more, they state matter-of-factly, "that's all there is." Then, after months or years looking or doing VTS, suddenly viewers start saying "I don't know.." Not-knowing enters with practice. Similarly, with time spent looking, people ask more questions, and, surprising, don’t finish their sentences or garble them. (Do they rethink their idea mid-sentence? Are they seeing things they can’t put into words?) Housen's research doesn't answer why it happens, her research only documents that it does happen. Not knowing, questioning, and not finishing take time to learn. This culture may treat those responses as signs of ignorance, or lack, but research shows the opposite - they take work to learn. They are skills. Want to learn more surprising facts about the research behind VTS? Join us in the VTS Learning Milestones and Research class this February! Register at vtshome.org/events. 4 sessions: Feb 18, 20, 25, 27 |9 a.m. Pacific | Noon Eastern. #visualthinkingstrategies #aestheticdevelopment #visualliteracy #looking #vts #notknowing
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Happy New Year! Join the conversation next Wednesday, Jan 15 as the VTS Look Club heads to Washington DC to feast our eyes on a few treasures from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. VTS Look Club Online is an opportunity to come together as a community, to practice looking, talking, listening, and engaging with art and each other. We hope you can join us. Register at vtshome.org/events (link in bio) #visualthinkingstrategies?#vtslookclubonline?#vtslookclub #nmwa?#visualliteracy?#nationalmuseumofwomeninthearts?#inclusiveconversations?#belonging?#lookingclosely?#listening?#looking
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