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Thinking Maps

Thinking Maps. Objective: Saddleback staff will learn basic concepts about Thinking Maps. Thinking Maps. Visual teaching tools that foster and encourage lifelong learning. Tools correspond with eight fundamental thinking processes. What are Thinking Maps?. • Visual Patterns.

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Thinking Maps

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  1. Thinking Maps Objective: Saddleback staff will learn basic concepts about Thinking Maps

  2. Thinking Maps Visual teaching tools that foster and encourage lifelong learning Tools correspond with eight fundamental thinking processes

  3. What are Thinking Maps? • Visual Patterns • 8 cognitive skills

  4. Brain Research Marzano Hyerle’s Cognitive Research Multiple Intelligence Theory

  5. Why Thinking Maps? Researchers at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) have identified nine instructional strategies that are most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and across all grade levels. Classroom Instruction That Works, by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock.

  6. Nine Instructional Strategies • Comparing and Contrasting • Classifying • Seeing Analogies

  7. Brain and Culture "...Individuals seek out stimulation that is consistent with their established internal structures, and ignore, forget, or attempt to actively discredit information that is consistent with these structures.” Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change, by Bruce Wexler

  8. Multiple Intelligence Theory (Howard Gardner) • Intrapersonal Intelligence “…involving the capacity to understand oneself, to have an effective model of oneself, including desires, fears, and capacities - and to use such information effectively in regulating one’s own life.” "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”, by Howard Gardner

  9. Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner) • Interpersonal Intelligence “To understand the intentions, motivations, and desires of other people and, consequently, to work effectively with others.” "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”, by Howard Gardner

  10. Thinking Foundation • research on cognitive and critical thinking skills development at the pre-school, K-12 and college levels • supporting research that investigates and facilitates change in public schools with great academic need. • research that looks at the interdependency and interplay of culture, language, and cognition. http://www.thinkingfoundation.org/

  11. Overview of Thinking Maps

  12. The Circle Map Defining in Context

  13. Saddleback Students Saddleback & Lathrop Teachers High School Teacher Respected among students Disciplinarian GovernmentEconomics Steve Army Reserve Loves motorcycles Friendship Mentor

  14. Adding a Frame of Reference • How do you know what you know about this topic? • Did your information come from a specific source? • Is this information being influenced by a specific point of view? • Who could use this information? • Why is this information important?

  15. The Bubble Map Describing

  16. The Double Bubble Map Comparing and Contrasting

  17. The Tree Map Classifying

  18. The Brace Map Whole to Parts

  19. The Flow Map Sequencing

  20. The Multi-Flow Map Cause and Effect

  21. The Bridge Map Seeing Analogies

  22. Graphic Organizers vs. Thinking Maps

  23. Brain Research Marzano Hyerle’s Cognitive Research Multiple Intelligence Theory

  24. Benefits Students learn more effectively and more efficiently Objectives are covered in less time with greater retention Thought processes are represented similarly throughout the curricula Schools promote integrated thinking and interdisciplinary learning Teachers can use TM as one more strategy to gauge student knowledge prior to a specific lesson Students gain effective tools to use across their academic careers

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