VisualRealization.com Aims to Empower All Digital Learners in Science through Vocabulary Using DIIMSA Pics-Fair. Join the Excitement!

    HOUSTON, TX, August 24, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Vocabulary in schools should be a major focus and link to real and relevant content because terminology ultimately establishes the foundation for the "Big Idea" or concept. If students do not truly understand vocabulary, then teaching specific objectives for the concept becomes incredibly difficult as students get muddled in trying to memorize terms, while not truly understanding how to apply terms. This is all good and fine, but in this digital age, how do we teach vocabulary to digital natives who appear to know more about information technology gadgets and digital capturing devices than adults do? How do we help socially or economically disadvantaged students achieve in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects? How do we increase interest in science while decreasing the dropout rate? How do we use inquiry and allow the digital learner to truly think critically? With the creation of DIIMSA "Picture-Fair" (DIIMSA Pics-Fair), VisualRealization.com has taken an innovative approach to answering these questions.

DIIMSA Pics-Fair is a unique instructional assignment that integrates science and literacy by linking dynamic content to authentic visual scenes for vocabulary, topic and concept enhancement. The foundation of DIIMSA Pics-Fair is student-centered, minds-on, inquiry-based and real-world. DIIMSA Pics-Fair creates interest, generates curiosity and allows learners to apply their knowledge and elaborate on terms based on their own understanding and interpretation of a dynamically captured visual scene that specifically links an assignment. A teacher using DIIMSA Pics-Fair said: "I observed how engaged my students became when I assigned DIIMSA Pics-Fair. They find it engaging and soon realize the importance of learning their topics and writing to reflect their research and analysis using their own captured pictures. It is amazing that digital cameras and social media are considered a norm in society, and DIIMSA Pics-Fair fits right in with the way students think. The DIIMSA Pics-Fair Guidesets are amazing because they illustrate ways to correlate to any lesson or standard [concept or teaching objective]."

DIIMSA Pics-Fair guidesets include research-based and well-accepted DIIMSA methods, strategies and activities as a roadmap for teachers. Guidesets, available from the DIIMSA online store, provide the opportunity for educators to get started immediately and experience the DIIMSA instructional framework. DIIMSA facilitators, teachers and administrators highly recommend this popular guideset to stimulate students' interest and involvement in the learning process. DIIMSA Pics-Fair Guidesets are aligned to science concepts that are taught across all 50 states and correlated to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Join us in announcing the DIIMSA Pics-Fair Guidesets and, if you have not visited our learning community lately, take the time to check out the latest resources to help you ignite creativity in your classroom and pave the way for all students to excel!

About VisualRealization.com

Established in 2000, VisualRealization.com is the premier practice-based professional development program for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers and facilitators. VisualRealization.com uses its research-based Digital Imagery as an Instructional Mode for Student Achievement (DIIMSA) Model to improve teacher quality and increase student engagement leading to student achievement in STEM. Schools and Districts that have implemented the DIIMSA Model understand why the results of positive, engaging, effective, connected and worthwhile concept-based professional development experiences for teachers aid in instructional and assessment successes that transfer directly into their individual classroom methods to allow student achievement to soar.

VisualRealization.com's DIIMSA Model was selected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) as an exemplary science success story and is featured in NSTA's Exemplary Science monograph series. (Source: NSTA Press, http://www.nsta.org)

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