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LESSON 13.

"Visual symbols will be made meaningful if we can use them as summaries of our own direct experiences or our own rich indirect experiences... A little can stand for a lot!"

Visual symbols will be made meaningful if we can use them as summaries of our own direct experiences or our own rich indirect experiences. A little can stand for a lot. This lesson I learned that from an experience of real world experience we proceed to a world of symbols, Visual symbols includes drawings, cartoons, strip drawings, diagrams, formulas, charts, graphs, maps, globes. Like a picture, a graph and all other visual symbols, are worth a thousand words. The proper use of visual symbols will contribute to optimum learning. Visual symbols come in many forms drawing cartoons strip drawing(comic strip) diagram map chart graph

For these visual symbols to be at your fingertips, you ought to be skilled at making them. The collection,
preparation and use of these various visual symbols depend to a great extent on your own resourcefulness and creativity. They may be used in different ways and in different phases of the lesson depending on your purpose. If you use them skillfully, your classroom may turn into a beehive of busy students. You may not realize it. But with visual symbols alone, you have an array of teaching materials to choose from. If you decide and commit yourself to using one visual symbol for every lesson, you will keep your teaching crispy and fresh. Only that this requires more preparation and more learning on your part. You must learn how to draw, sketch, make diagrams, graphs, the charts and some diagrams. You have to know what software to use and of course how to manipulate the computer. 

REFLECTION: 

In this chapter from an experience of real world experiences we proceed a world of symbols. Visual symbols is very important in teaching process because most students are visual learners , the teacher should provide some visual presentation like drawing. Maps charts and graph through this the student are easily to understand the given information .As a future teacher someday it give us knowledge of having different materials needed to be visualized and presentable to our lesson to the learner’s.