In this article the authors first surface the need for reframing formative and summative assessment in this, the cognitive age of the 21st century. The Thinking Maps model is introduced as a theoretical and practical common visual language for teaching, learning and assessment that reflects what we know about how the brain works, learning, and cognition.read more on assessment...
Student Successes with Thinking Maps
The Thinking Maps® program takes full advantage of the natural proclivity of the brain to see and think visually. The authors describe Thinking Maps as a language of visual tools grounded in the thinking process, a most neurally apt description. This book provides an invaluable way to help our students truly understand and retain the concepts behind the facts, and to do this in an exciting and motivating way.
Pat Wolfe, Author, Building the Reading Brain
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Respected Education and Brain Thinkers Thinking About Thinking
Read what some very respected thinkers in education are thinking about thinking, visual tools, and more...
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Interview from Mexico
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Visit a school in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico that deeply understands the use of Thinking Maps.
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The Language of the Mind
The Cognitive Bridge to Literacy in New Rochelle
The documentary The Language of the Mind shares the remarkable story how visual tools — Thinking Maps — have changed how students in the New Rochelle School District (New York, USA) are thinking and contributing to the overall classroom discourse, regardless of English proficiency. Watch the film trailer for The Language of the Mind below.
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Roosevelt Elementary
Long Beach, California
My intent as the instructional leader of Roosevelt School [Stefanie R. Holzman, Ed.D.] was initially isolated on these tools for a direct and immediate impact on student performance. What I didn't realize and could not foresee were the deeper effects upon the development of teachers across our year-round, multitrack school as a result of the use of Thinking Maps in their classrooms. Read about Roosevelt Elementary School including video clips and test data.
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Impact of Thinking Maps
New Rochelle, NY, USA
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Read Dr. Estee Lopez's dissertation on the impact of Thinking Maps on
teaching and learning in New Rochelle schools.
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McKinley Elementary
San Jose, California
It is the intent of this study to examine the role of Thinking Maps® in the transformation on teacher effectiveness. In addition we will analyze how the use of the common visual language provided by Thinking Maps has facilitated teacher collaboration and communication within and across grade levels.
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International Thinking
Read how visual tools are being used with English, Ahmaric, and other dialects in Ethiopia.
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| ...the research tells us we are at risk... the largest minority group in our nation... ...to make sure they are great thinkers, major contributors, articulate, and capable... ...because of the visual nature of Thinking Maps the children quickly grasped the concepts behind each of the maps... ...the teachers began to look at these children differently... ...challenged their thinking... awakened their curiosity... ELL Director, New Rochelle School District, New York, USA |
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| ...Thinking Maps have proved to be an important initiative in our district... ...provides our teachers and students with a means to organize their thoughts and to be able to analyze and present their ideas... ...particularly important in a district of our diversity... ...regardless of English proficiency... contribute to the overall classroom discourse... Assistant Superintendent, New Rochelle School District, New York, USA |
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