In order to become an effective teacher, part of your philosophy has to be based on the idea that humans are visual learners who are greatly influenced by how we see things.

The learner's potential for success is based on their visual literacy, or their ability to understand the meaning of what they see.

The Gestalt school’s work of almost a century ago focused on the belief that: “knowledge (more than experience).. involves the knower actively imposing organization on sensory data"

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