Reflections on Learning through VTS in Hospital and University Pharmacy Settings
Pharmacists need to provide health services and healthcare in a person-centered manner.
Note from the Editor
In this edition of Site Specific, Kim Brackley, Lynne Petersen, and Trudi Aspden, an author team of pharmacists and university educators based in Auckland, New Zealand, reflect on the ways that they use Visual Thinking Strategies as a teaching tool to help their...
VTS Discussions Can Support (Functional) Illiterate Second-Language Learners
VTS aligns well with effective second-language acquisition.
Note from the Editor
What might it mean to center adult language learners in their learning? In this issue of Site Specific: The Journal of Visual Thinking Strategies, Amsterdam-based Nanja Ruiter reflects on her experiences using Visual Thinking Strategies to support her adult students...
How Artwork Changed My Classroom
I cannot expect my students to learn how to come to their own conclusions by continually redirecting them from a predictable question.
Note from the Editor
What choices do we make as educators that support students to take risks with their thinking?
Care and Conversation
Can conversation be a form of care? I think a lot about the ways in which VTS teaches, but perhaps less than I ought to about how it can also be used to nurture and sustain, to connect and to heal. When we discuss an image with a group, is there an opportunity to...
Using VTS to Build Conversations with People Living with Dementia
The non-judgmental nature of VTS synched seamlessly with what many memory care experts stress are best practices when communicating with adults living with different forms of dementia
When Uncertainty Becomes Possibility: VTS and Creative Problem-Solving
I am standing in front of a painting in our campus museum with a group of college students. Smiling broadly, I ask, "What is going on in this painting?" Twenty-five students stare at me blankly, the looks on their faces indicating that they are struggling to intuit...
Note from the Editor
As a VTS Trainer working with classroom teachers, one of the questions I frequently encounter is how to leverage the kinds of critical thinking that VTS supports into other subject areas. How might VTS support mathematical thinking, for instance? While this question...
Practice and Compassion
How can we achieve a feeling of connectedness when many of us cannot be physically close to our students?
Online Image Discussions
How do we hold Visual Thinking Strategies image discussions online?