1.  Challenge: My challenge was to convince and involve all the community in oral

health study. To initiate assessment and program planning processes and see them  through to implementation and evaluation, the involvement and support of the community is

essential. 23 schools were involved and 3286 children participated. We wanted to take a  survey and clinical evaluation and give and educational lecture in each school.

2.  Selection: I choose visual thinking, because as Angela Myer described in module 1,

is a very creative way to analyze a problem, when you have to imagine something and you  want to engaged a lot of people with different backgrounds, is easier to show a picture or a

diagram. I choose school as a center of the challenge and put all the elements involved.  We include family, teachers and children.

3.  Application: We prepare a power point presentation with graphics to explain each

school how we planned to do the study and it was simpler to explain why is important to all

the community were involved and collaborate.

4.  Insight:  After the power point presentation we answered questions that parents and

teachers asked, and that helped us to make some changes to improve the next

presentations. Some things were not been considerate for us until they asked, and this  allowed us to make positive changes.

5.  Approach: I think visual thinking is an amazing tool, I´ll use to show the  results of

the study to the  all participants, because I think they would like to see what were their  contribution and I think they would feel proud of been a part of the study. Instead of a

scientific paper, full of tables an numbers, very difficult to understand, the kids and their  families, can see the results of the study in an infographic.


1 . Challenge : My challenge was to convince and involve all the community in oral health study . To initiate assessment and program planning processes and see them through to implementation and evaluation , the involvement and support of the community is essential . 23 schools were involved and 3286 children participated . We wanted to take a survey and clinical evaluation and give and educational lecture in each school . 2 . Selection : I choose visual thinking , because as Angela Myer described in module 1 , is a very creative way to analyze a problem , when you have to imagine something and you want to engaged a lot of people with different backgrounds , is easier to show a picture or a diagram . I choose school as a center of the challenge and put all the elements involved . We include family , teachers and children . 3 . Application : We prepare a power point presentation with graphics to explain each school how we planned to do the study and it was simpler to explain why is important to all the community were involved and collaborate . 4 . Insight : After the power point presentation we answered questions that parents and teachers asked , and that helped us to make some changes to improve the next presentations . Some things were not been considerate for us until they asked , and this allowed us to make positive changes . 5 . Approach : I think visual thinking is an amazing tool , I´ll use to show the results of the study to the all participants , because I think they would like to see what were their contribution and I think they would feel proud of been a part of the study . Instead of a scientific paper , full of tables an numbers , very difficult to understand , the kids and their families , can see the results of the study in an infographic .