Draw and Tell Method is a flexible learning sequence where students respond to a teacher’s prompt through three modes of expression: drawing or other visual representation, handwritten words, and spoken discussion. 

Draw and Tell Method is grounded in three first principles: 

1. Drawing reveals thinking. 

2. Writing organizes thought. 

3. Discussion deepens understanding. 

Within this structure lie endless ways to make the Method your own.

The purple Classroom Workbook simply gives every student a ready-made workspace to put the Method into practice.

Does gaining insight into how your students think catch your attention?

Could a simple classroom workbook adaptable to virtually any subject and fitting any teacher's style be helpful?

How about the freedom to make such a tool your very own? 


The Draw and Tell Method Classroom Workbook could be a difference maker for you.  

Great teaching has a new place to happen.

It's in this purple book.

Think of opening windows into your students' thought processes with these pages. Identify patterns in how they learn, how they solve problems, and how they express themselves.

How you use these insights is your choice.

With an alternating blank-page, lined-page layout, this workbook gives students a place to 

• Explore ideas visually 

• Develop ideas intellectually

• Organize thoughts in writing

• Prepare mentally for meaningful discussion 

Teachers' Note: Discussion can happen anytime you feel it best serves the student, the lesson, or the situation, in one-on-one sessions, small-group, or whole-class settings.

Always teachers' choice.

The Draw and Tell Method Classroom Workbook becomes the student's personal think-lab...

Drawing reveals thinking.

Writing organizes thought.

Discussion deepens understanding.

The three first principles.

Easy to implement and easy to make your own, Draw and Tell Method Classroom Workbook is designed to complement your teaching style -- never change it.  

There are no student-directed instructions in the workbook. 

This is your class.

Here's an example:

You begin with a prompt, a question, observation, or assignment.

The student responds by drawing or other visual representation on the blank page, then writing by hand on the adjacent lined page. 

Discussion follows at the teacher's discretion.

How you use the Method is entirely up to you.



Questions? 

Let's answer a few. 

Q: Is this another art book? Do students need artistic ability? 

A: Not unless you choose to use it as an art book.

The Draw and Tell Method Classroom Workbook is intentionally designed to help students think visually. The goal is not to produce artwork. It's to make thinking visible.

Drawing can be as simple as stick figures, circles, shapes, arrows, connected lines, or any mark that helps articulate a thought before writing about it.

Q: Will this change the way I teach?

A: It doesn't have to. It can only improve outcomes.

The advantage lies in all the ways you can make Draw and Tell your own. The method and workbook are not here to interrupt the way you teach. They're here to complement what you already do well, and to reinforce your objectives. 

Q: Does this method require a computer or any other digital technology?

A: Absolutely not. One pencil, one workbook, one student, one teacher -- and a prompt. That's all you need to get started. No device required.

No login, no username, no password, no charging, no software, no Wi-Fi... no screen between the teacher and the student -- which makes Draw and Tell portable. Meaning the classroom can go where you decide to take it.

Always teachers' choice.

Q: Does this work with the curriculum I already use?

A: It certainly can, if you choose.

The Draw and Tell Method Classroom Workbook can be used entirely on its own or alongside textbooks, videos, and online learning platforms. A lesson or practice exercise can become your prompt. Students can then use the blank page to represent what they understand and the lined page to explain their thinking. You don't have to change or work around your existing curriculum to make room for Draw and Tell.

Q: How am I supposed to grade something like this?

A: You don't have to.

Draw and Tell is not a grade-centered activity -- unless you want it to be one. The value is seeing how the student approaches your prompt, what they notice and what they don't -- and how they express their thinking. That's the tell.

The draw can be anything. The tell can be everything.

Q: Will I be making more work for myself?

A: Draw and Tell is meant to work with you, not add to your workload. 

You don't need a Draw and Tell schedule -- unless you want one. You can use this every day, once per week, once per month -- or only when a situation calls for it.

There is no complicated learning curve, however you may enjoy the discovery curve -- finding new ways to use Draw and Tell, and new ways to see how your students think. 

Use it when and where it best serves you and your students. 

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May we all keep learning,

Nick

Draw and Tell Method Classroom Workbook is available on Amazon