Learning Opportunity

Visual Literacy

This session has been completed.
Facilitator: Irene Heffel
Date:

This is a multi-day event.

Day 1Feb 01, 2023 (3:45 pm to 5:00 pm MDT)
Day 2Feb 08, 2023 (3:45 pm to 5:00 pm MDT)
Day 6Feb 14, 2023 (3:45 pm to 5:00 pm MDT)
Cost:
No Charge
Location: Virtual
Session Code: 23-LI-099
Focus: English Language Arts & Literacy Leadership Curriculum Implementation and Pedagogy

Target Audience

Teachers Grade 7-12, School based Administrator, Instructional Coach, Learning Coach, District Leaders

About this Learning Opportunity

Visual Literacy is being aware of how students experience images, video, and other forms of multimedia. Images must be evaluated in a similar way to written texts. Like text, images can be used accurately, deliberately, misleadingly , or carelessly. Some images, like texts, can be interpreted in different, sometimes contradictory, ways. This three part session offers the skills students need to question why the author of a document has chosen particular images and why students react to them the way they do.

This session addresses the LQS competencies

  • 2. Modeling Commitment to Professional Learning
  • 4. Leading a Learning Community

This session addresses the TQS competencies

  • 2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning
  • 3. Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge

This learning opportunity is being subsidized through funding from Alberta Education.

About the Facilitator

Irene Heffel

Irene Heffel is a literacy consultant and educator with over 35 years of experience at all levels. She has worked with both elementary and secondary teachers to implement best practices in curriculum, assessment and Backward Design.