VUE is developing a network of teacher trainers across the country. Many of these are dedicated classroom and museum educators. They need your support to attend a series of sessions that, over the course of three months, will enable them to train other teachers and museum educators in their region, spreading VTS by orders of magnitude.

A website is now available for teachers whose schools do not have funds available to support a visit by a VUE teacher trainer. The website also contains student writing assignments. It includes a range of written materials, role-playing exercises, and videos to help teachers prepare for the classroom experience. Images and writing lessons supplement VTS classroom lessons for older students. Further support will help us to create a more interactive, teacher-friendly online experience, and to design the website so it can easily be updated by VUE staff.

Visual Thinking Strategies is a Kindergarten through Fifth grade curriculum that uses visual art to foster critical thinking skills. Learner-centered and developmentally appropriate, VTS can be used by any teacher with very little training, and requires no special expertise. Over the next three years, we will work to get VTS into as many hands as possible. Your support can help our promotional efforts, to market VTS to teachers, principals, and superintendents; place news stories in opinion-making journals; and purchase selected advertising.