Lesson 13: Teaching with Visual Symbols

Visual Symbols – are representations of direct reality, which comes in the form of signs and symbols.

Drawings

           
        A drawing may not be real thing but better to have concrete visual aid than nothing. To avoid confusion, it is good that our drawing correctly represents the real thing.

Cartoon

            Another useful visual symbol that can bring novelty to our teaching is the cartoon. A first-rate cartoon tells its story metaphorically.

Strip Drawings

            A strip drawing is a sequence of drawings in a newspaper, magazine, etc., relating a humorous story or an adventure.

Diagrams

            According to Dale, 1969, diagram is any line drawing that shows arrangement and relations as of parts to the whole, relative values, origins and development, chronological fluctuations, distributions,etc.

Types of Diagrams

Affinity Diagram – used to cluster complex apparently unrelated data into natural and meaningful groups.

Tree Diagram – used in increasing details or various tasks that must be accomplished to complete a project

Fishbone Diagram – cause-and-effect diagram

Charts

            A chart is a diagrammatic representation of relationships among individuals within an organization.

Types of Chart

Time Chart – tabular time chart that presents data in ordinal sequence

Tree or Stream Chart – depicts development, growth and change by beginning with a simple course with spread outs into many branches.

Flow chart – visual way of showing a process from beginning to end

Organization chart – shows how one part of the organization relates to other parts of the organization.

Comparison and Contrast chart – shows similarities and differences

Pareto chart ­– type of bar chart, prioritized in descending order of magnitude or importance from left to right

Gantt chart – is an activity time chart

Graphs

            Pictures that help us understand data

Types of Graphs

Circle Graph – recommended for showing parts of a whole.

Bar Graph – use in comparing the magnitude of similar items at different times or seeing relative sizes of the part of a whole.

Pictorial Graph – make use of picture symbols

Graphic Organizers – you met several graphic organizers in your subject, principle of teaching.

Maps

            A representation of the surface of the earth or some part of it

Types of Maps

Physical map – altitude, temperature, rainfall, precipitation, vegetation, and soil

Relief map – three dimensional represents and show contours of the physical data of the earth or part of the earth

Political map – gives detailed information about country, provinces, lakes, rivers, etc.

Poster

    A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative.