In class today we worked on creating graphics and learned how it can be used as a tool to help with teaching!

Here’s my graphic that I created using Canva, it’s a teacher resume that can be used to introduce yourself to students on the first day:

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I really enjoy graphics because they are easy to read, allow lots of info to be used, are organized effectively, and allow for creativity. I think infographics are a great way for students to learn a complicated topic that may be hard to understand at younger ages, such as politics, social justice issues, or scientific articles/papers.

I found this really cool infographic on Statistic Canada about migration of Indigenous Peoples to and from First Nations reserves. It really puts things into perspective. With lots of effective information, in such a small space.

For teaching, infographics is a great way for teachers to give proper and factual information out to students for a project or even in class assignments. In our psychology class, we talked about how the teacher can control how students are getting their information by supplying them with websites and info. Infographics can even lead into a jigsaw activity and have the students present their work in groups or even to the class. I remember having to create an infographic for my high school class on a social justice issue I was researching and I actually found I learned more about the topic by organizing it via little sections than I would have in a powerpoint.

Ways graphics/infographics can be used in classes:

• Introduce topics
• Summarize learning
• Check a students understanding on a topic
• Helps with visuals
• Classroom routine
• Classroom rules
• Scaffolding to help students with IEP’s

See below an example from Statistics Canada:

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In my future classroom, I would really like to incorporate some sort of graphic to show my students on the first day. This could be an ‘About Me/Meet the Teacher’ or something funny to ‘hook’ the students into the first class activity such as an icebreaker. I also like how creative it is and how much students can learn from this type of artifact!

All in all, I really enjoyed this class and can’t wait to incorporate it into my teaching/learning!