Quick Coaching Guide: Using Visual Cues to Support Learning
This guide shows teachers how simple visual cues, such as hand gestures or anchor charts, can support students’ self-regulation, independence, and dignity in the classroom. By allowing teachers to communicate effectively and students to quickly and simply get essential information, visual cues help create a productive and focused learning environment.
This guide shows teachers how simple visual cues, such as hand gestures or anchor charts, can support students’ self-regulation, independence, and dignity in the classroom. By allowing teachers to communicate effectively and students to quickly and simply get essential information, visual cues help create a productive and focused learning environment. They also support students in learning and practicing procedures and routines, academic content, and social-emotional skills.
This Quick Coaching Guide offers specific tips and reflection questions to help teachers successfully put visual cues into practice in their own classrooms.
A multifaceted tool for ongoing, embedded professional development, Quick Coaching Guides encapsulate a specific topic through the Responsive Classroom lens and identify concrete skills for educators to practice or teach.
This hands-on, structured guide helps educators to take stock of their current practice, plan for future growth, and reflect on progress made.
- Convenient, embedded professional development that connects directly to your classroom
- Flexible for autonomous, self-paced learning, exploration, and reflection
- Written by Responsive Classroom expert teachers
Sharon Alkalay –
I use visual cues daily. Our day starts with students reading and following our color coded “Do now” ( always I’m green) Morning Message and question of the day. Rubrics are referred to on an anchor chart and for students to check themselves. A mini wipe off board is by the door with our goal to beat ( or stay) of how long it takes to line up silently. Weekly models are utilized to show the class what it looks like and sounds like when a direction is given. The “timer” ( yes, this a child’s job for the week) times how long a behavior takes. It keeps the students accountable and to strive for a class goal ( I teach 3rd grade). Responsive classroom has taught endless strategies and activities that have helped me teach and reflect for decades!