VTS, how to do it and examples.

Good afternoon,

In today´s post we are going to give you some examples of VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) with the photo below. 

To use VTS, we ask ourselves three open ended questions about a photo.  The first question gives the viewers a chance to interpret on their own what they are seeing (What’s going on in this picture?). The second question encourages evidentiary thinking (What do you see that makes you say that?). Finally, the third question pushes them to think further and deeper that the first layer of a piece. (What more can we find?)

Here you have 2 examples:

AITOR´S VTS

SOFÍA´S VTS: https://youtu.be/wPnXIYvJ0HY 

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

All that glitters is not gold, we can adapt this saying to everything on our society. Today we are going to talk about two topics that nowadays are very important.

We, as future english teachers, have to be very cautious about what happens with our class and with the students it is formed. Currently it is very common that not all students are as happy as they seem to be in class, and going to class is for them like going to hell. We are talking about bullying.

As we can see on the video we attached on the word, bullying is such a real thing that happens pretty much in all schools and that affects the life of a lot of students.

Being bullied is a situation a lot of students suffer. Don’t be accepted on your class and having to deal with comments and actions that just harass you day by day makes school for them a hell.

This is a situation we, as teachers, have to control and eradicate in our school, as it is a major problem.

On the video we post, it describes a situation of a little girl that is being bullied. It describes the horrendous situation she is living without anything she can do to stop it.

We have to be the ones who eradicate these actions helping bullied students to pass this difficult time by supporting them.

The other topic that we are going to talk about is the dependence that we have with our mobile phone, because phones have been such a huge improvement in our society, making everyone connected every time, but, not everything that glitters is gold.

Nowadays, everyone in our society, since we are kids, has a mobile phone where he is connected to the internet, use social media, play games etc. The variety of things, opportunities and hobbies that we have with the mobile phone is immense, but with a wrong use of it it can be devastated, the mobile phone could become your life.

On the video we have presented, "Don´t be that guy", we have a typical example of a student that is hooked to the mobile phone and he is the whole day with it, is whole life is his phone. This is a huge problem as people are immerse on a virtual reality putting aside his real life.

The people who is part of his real life has to do something about that huge problem and make the people who are that hooked to realize that their whole life is the phone, and that he should try to use less the phone and enjoy his real life, because there is just one real life.

What is literacy

Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write. That was something that few years ago was not common in our society. Most of the people where illiterate and that was a huge problem.

Nowadays, things has change. In the society we live, it is extremely important to be literate, if not is hard to become part of the sociey because you have to be able to read and to write, as you use it in everydays life. Being able to read and write means being able to keep up with social events, communicate effectively and understand what is happening around you!

Literacy development has to be carried between home and school. Some things we can do to make out students literate is to:

    1. Encourage reading

Reading is the most important thing of literacy so we have to encourage our students to read as much as they can and to create a reading habit. They could read newspapers, films, books...

    2. Discuss texts together

Discuss what they have read encourages learners to think deeply about the ideas that where in the text. We have to make literary conversations about the texts or books we read.

    3. Write your ideas!

Other way to make students develop their literacy is to make them write what they thought about a theme they like!

To resume wich are the most important parts of literacy, we will give you a short explanation of What is literacy nowadays that we think you will like it a lot.

And last but not least, we post you a personal mind map with the most important words that surround literacy!

What is your opinion about literacy? Would you add any more words? Tell us in comments!

ABOUT US!

This blog is being written by two primary education students who want to become English teachers! Above this we are going to make a more personal introduction of ourselves!

Hi everyone! My name is Aitor Gutiérrez Pérez and my dream as always been to be an primary english teacher as it has two of my three favourite hobbies, that are: working with kids, being able to speak in english and do crazy stuff in the mountain.

I am a hard working student who always wants to give the best of his own!

One of the things that made me do this blog is to prove myself that I am able to express a lot of my ideas, thoughts and academic works in english and let everyone read them!

I hope you enjoy our blog, I will work hard on it, and now I let you with my partner, Sofia!

Hi! My name is Sofía Lázaro Lahuerta and I want to be a english teacher, is my favourite profession since I was child! My hobbies are skiing, kids, going out with my friends and spending time at the beach! I´m a fun-loving and cheerful person who loves spending time with children, especially if it is in English!

My goal for creating this blog is similar to my friend Aitor, it´s a good way to express our ideas and academic tasks in english and it´s too easy for people to read it!

I hope you spend a good time reading our blog, we´ll read you in comments!