Student Successes With Thinking Maps®
David Hyerle, and Larry Alper Co-Editors
Corwin Press, 2011, Second Edition, Thousand Oaks, California
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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Student Successes With Thinking Maps
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Visual Tools for Transforming Information Into Knowledge
David Hyerle, Author
Arthur L. Costa, Prologue
Robert J. Marzano, Foreward
Corwin Press, 2009, Second Edition, 167 pages
This is the most comprehensive book on graphic organizers, Thinking Maps®, and graphic software programs. Find out why visual tools and mapping are the key tools for 21st century learning. Look at student and teacher work and review test results from around the country. In a rich and provocative writing style, David Hyerle, Ed.D. draws together examples from teachers, administrators, brain researchers, and parents to make a very exciting read.
Reviews of A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools (previous edition)
Review of A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools by the National Writing Project
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“A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools (Hyerle, 2000) is an excellent source of information regarding the many forms of graphics and their use in educational settings.”
Patricia Wolfe
Brain Matters — Translating Research into Classroom Practice, (ASCD 2001) p. 159
Review of A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools by American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
Reviewed by Paul A. Roberts - Principal, Glen Grove Elementary School, Glenview, Ill.
American Association of School Administrators, September 2001
“Thinking outside the box may or may not be the appropriate point of view as you experience A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools by David Hyerle. The "box" is a point of reference for graphic organizers and reflects a frame of reference that formally adds a new dimension to visual maps. This sequel to Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge deals with the practical applications of thinking-process maps and gives real-life school examples.”
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