Teaching with VISUAL SYMBOLS

VISUAL SYMBOLS

• Visual symbols are representation of direct

reality, which comes in the forms of signs and

symbols.

• These are highly abstract representation.

VISUAL SYMBOLS

• Drawings

• Cartoons

• Strip Drawings

• Diagrams

• Charts

• Graphs

• Maps

Drawing

• The art or act of of making figure, plan or sketch

by means of line. (Webster,1976)

• One essential skill that a teacher ought to

posses.

Example of Drawing

Cartoons

• The symbolism conveys the message.

• It can bring novelty to our teaching.

Example of Cartoon

Strip Drawings

• These are commonly called comics or comic

strips. Dale (1969) asserts that a more accurate

term is strip drawing.

Example of Strip Drawing

Diagram

• Any line drawing that shows arrangement and

relations as part of the whole, relative values,

origins and development, etc. (Dale, 1969)

Types of Diagrams

Affinity Diagram

Tree Diagram

Fish Bone Digram

Charts

• Is a diagrammatic representation of relationshipsamong individuals within an organization.

Examples of Chart

Time Chart

Flow Chart

Organizational Chart

Graphs

• Based diagrams: these take a collection of

items and relationships between them, and

express them by giving each item a 2D position,

while the relationships are expressed as

connection between the items.

Bar Graph Pie or Circle Graph

Examples of Graph

Maps

• A map is a representation of the surface of the

earth or some part of it.

Political Map

Example of Map

“Visual symbols will be made

meaningful if we can use them as a

summaries of our direct experiences

or our rich indirect experiences … A

little can stands for a lot !”

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