Free Teacher CPD Webinar: Visual Literacy Skills

About this session

This practical session introduces powerful picture-reading techniques for engaging students with additional needs, using Historic Royal Palaces’ ground-breaking historical wordless stories and supporting teaching resources.

• Understand how visual literacy skills can empower learners who experience written words as a barrier.

• Learn about practical techniques for ‘reading’ wordless stories to excite learners about the nation’s history.

• Gain confidence in engaging teenaged learners with themes of personal relevance, including relationships, loneliness, responsibility and understanding how people’s decisions have consequences for others.

• Understand how practising visual literacy skills can strengthen other skills, including oracy, listening, critical thinking and teamwork.

Who is it for

• Classroom teachers of students aged 12-19 with additional needs (including learning disabilities, behavioural and/or emotional challenges, low reading ages, English as an additional language, dyslexia, neurodivergence)

• Trainee and early career teachers

• Learning Support Assistants

What to expect:

• A brief introduction to visual literacy skills and why they are important for learners

• A presentation on how practical picture-reading techniques can enhance cross-curricular teaching through use of wordless stories

• Opportunities to practise picture-reading techniques through paired activities using a wordless story

• Q&A

Curriculum links:

This session supports:

• cognition and learning

• speech, language and social communication

• problem solving, coping, conflict management, understanding and managing feelings

• social and emotional skills, attitudes and values and to develop awareness and capacity to reflect on their own emotions and feelings of others

• SMSC development

History (KS1-3)

• know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world

• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically valid questions

• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed

• Use historical terms and concepts in increasingly sophisticated ways.

Booking information

Where and when

Wednesday 11 November
15:30-17:30
Online

This session works well if staff from the same school join the session from the same room in groups of 2-3.

Please add a note of numbers after your name on the booking form. Anyone attending alone will be allocated a partner during the session.

Price
Free

To book
Complete the form linked below