Seeding Inquiry Learning Online Course for PreK-12 Teachers to be Released by Watershed Collaborative

The Interactive Online Course will Train Teachers in a Student-Centered Instructional Method Called Visual Thinking Strategies

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 20, 2017 / The founders of Watershed Collaborative, a non-profit organization that strives to support teachers in innovative and new ways, are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the Seeding Inquiry Learning: Online Course for PreK-12 Teachers. Their first interactive online course, Seeding Inquiry Learning, will train teachers in a student-centered instructional method – Visual Thinking Strategies – proven through 20-plus years of research and implementation.

To learn more about Visual Thinking Strategies and the upcoming online course for teachers and watch a short video about Watershed Collaborative and their work, please check out https://goo.gl/P4SIDU.

As a spokesperson for Watershed Collaborative noted, this upcoming project is already creating quite a buzz in the education and higher learning spaces.

“Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a simple yet profound discussion facilitation technique with which students and teachers collaboratively explore rich visual art through open inquiry and the consideration of multiple possibilities,” the spokesperson said, adding that through VTS, students learn to think critically and creatively, pair reasoning with evidence, and confidently elaborate complex ideas.

“With VTS and Watershed’s state-of-the-art professional learning features, teachers are better able to meet the demands of new standards and expectations while simultaneously meeting the individual needs of their students.”

Watershed Collaborative prioritizes affordability so that any teacher working in any socioeconomic context can access resources and implement practices on par with what the best schools in the country provide and deliver, the spokesperson said. The non-profit organization is on a mission to better equip teachers to enable students to learn how to learn – for success in school and life in the 21st century.

In order to help pay for the first VTS course, the founders of Watershed Collaborative recently launched a fundraiser on Kickstarter. There, they hope to raise $40,000 through crowdfunding.

“This Kickstarter campaign will fund our first course in Visual Thinking Strategies for more than a thousand PreK-12 teachers, and help us construct a collaborative community for them to share insights and innovations,” the spokesperson said.

About the Seeding Inquiry Learning Online Course, Visual Thinking Strategies:

Watershed Collaborative will launch this new interactive and online course that will train teachers about Visual Thinking Strategies, a student-centered instructional method with 20-plus years of research behind it. For more information, please visit https://goo.gl/P4SIDU

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