Week 4 January 29 2020

This weeks blog post on Visual Literacy is complicated simply because the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts does not factor in or include standards about Visual Literacy. It is important to understand as a teacher that there is so much more to literacy and English Language Arts than just books and reading and writing. There is performative works that convey literature and that is also considered literature, or artwork or music. Literature should be considered in a very broad sense, because the more broad the more there is to learn about; and in turn, more to teach to students.
Thinking about literature in visual forms also helps students with different learning styles, and pushes students to be creative and think outside the box. It is unfortunate that some people do not even know that literature can encompass so many much more than books. I am glad that my time here at Eastern has furthered my thinking about what literature means as a whole.
Going into teaching, visual literacy is super important for your visual learners, and generally for all students. Many aspects of visual literacy is much more interactive and captivating than simply reading a text, and this will keep your students engaged and interested in the subject material you are teaching. I do not know how many times that I have heard from my student friends that they felt that English Language Arts classes were the most boring classes they had in high school, because they did not learn anything that compares to visual literature.
I would like to see more components of visual literacy in state and federal standards across the board when it comes to education, and I also believe that they should at least be included in teacher preparation programs (like Eastern does!). I am happy to learn about visual literacy and will make sure that in my future classroom I will take extra steps to use visual literacy as a tool for instruction.

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