Transcript Welcome to Thinking Maps® TODAY’S AGENDA What are Thinking Maps & why do they work? What is the purpose of each map? What is the.

Welcome to
Thinking
Maps®
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TODAY’S AGENDA
What are Thinking Maps & why do they work?
What is the purpose of each map?
What is the Memorial High School Thinking Maps plan?
How will I use the Thinking Maps?
What support will I get throughout the year to help me learn
Thinking2 Maps?
Initial Training
First Day Back
Introductory Period
8 Weeks
Introduction of each map in advisories
Student Displays
Second Phase
8 Weeks Thinking Maps with
Frame of Reference and Color
Third Follow Up
Second Follow Up
School Wide Closure
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First Follow Up
Student Products
Third Phase
8 Weeks
“Off the Map”
Jump Start Second Year
To use Thinking Maps as a
“common visual language” in
your learning community for
transferring thinking
processes, integrating
learning, and for continuously
assessing progress.
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What are Thinking Maps?
•Developed in 1988 by Dr. David Hyerle
•Each map is based on a cognitive skill such as comparing and
contrasting, sequencing, classifying, and cause-effect reasoning
•Can be utilized individually or in various combinations to form a
common visual language for students and teachers at all grade
levels, in all subjects
•Used to improve the basics of reading, writing, and mathematics
as well as for problem solving and the development of higher order
thinking skills
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What is the Difference?
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Eight Different Maps
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What are
Thinking
Maps and
how are they
different from
Graphic
Organizers?
Use a Circle
Map to define
Thinking
Maps.
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80% of all information that
comes into our brain is
VISUAL
40% of all nerve fibers
connected to the brain are
linked to the retina
-Eric Jensen,
Brain Based
Learning
36,000 visual messages per hour
may be registered by the eyes.
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The Thinking Maps give a
concrete visual pattern for an
abstract cognitive skill.
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“Thinking Maps
store
information the
way the brain
does.”
Pat Wolfe
July 2005
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How the Brain Processes Information
Senses
Register
Information
Areas in the Brain
Filter Information
Long
Term
Memory
Emotion
Building
Networks
Lost
Lost
Meaning
Networks
Strengthened
Networks
Extended
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Dendrites
Cell Body
Axon
Synapse
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NEURONS THAT FIRE TOGETHER
GET WIRED TOGETHER.
THAT IS WHAT A PATTERN IS!
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Thought process: Sequencing
When do you use sequencing in:
READING?
WRITING?
SCIENCE?
MATH?
SOCIAL STUDIES?
THE ARTS?
In every instance, you could use a
FLOW MAP
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Middle
School
Social
Studies
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High
School
English
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SET
TEACHER / STUDENT INPUT
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PROCESSING
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EXTENSION
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CLOSURE
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Tomorrow, students will be introduced to the Circle Map.
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Useful Websites
Examples of each map grades K-6
http://fdlrs.brevard.k12.fl.us/ThinkingMaps/default.html
Newsletters devoted to each Thinking Map
http://www.kcclc.org/thinkingmaps2?print-friendly=true
Chippewa Valley ELA Website
http://chippewavalleyela.pbworks.com