VTS II Blog Topic 4

"What do students need to know first so they can understand what follows?" Sequencing is crucial in order to build knowledge. VTSing within a unit is a beautiful opportunity to scaffolded and build on the students prior knowledge. And with the right sequence of images and assignments you can build on students understanding and create a depth of knowledge. With my unit I started with the most familiar so that students can pull from their prior knowledge. With each image I am building to things that are more foreign and more controversial and finally with an image that is much more ambiguous but encompasses it all so that they are pulling from everything that they have learned and seen.