Picture Magic Teacher's Guide
The Picture Magic Teacher’s Guide is a ‘how to’ guide in using real life photographs to SPARK thinking and learning through wonder, inquiry, questioning, curiosity and conversation. It has been designed in 2 sections.
- The Thinking Bit
This section underpins much of the thinking and outlines the learning outcomes behind the use of the Picture Magic photographs. It offers...
- Strategies for extending thinking through questioning
- A simple outline of...
- Multiple Intelligences
- Blooms Revised Taxonomy
- Thinkers Keys – creative thinking strategies
- Reflective section - How Healthy are my Teaching Strategies?
- The Doing Bit
This section is about putting it into practice and making it happen. It offers practical, simple lesson ideas for Preschool and Lower Primary as well as Middle and Upper Primary. It also contains lesson examples outlined step by step.
The Picture Magic Teacher’s Guide...
- Suits beginning or experienced teachers
- Provides support for home schooling
- Offers practical, quick and easy ideas ready to use
- Simple language
- Useful with or without knowledge of the pictures
- Encourages inquiry (investigative) approach
- Useful across a range of curriculum areas
