Student Successes With Thinking Maps®
David Hyerle, editor with Sarah Curtis and Larry Alper co-editors
Chapter 1: Thinking Maps® as a Transformational Language for Learning
David Hyerle, Ed.D.
Much like a momentary respite before jumping back into an exciting journey, this book represents a resting place for present research, results, and models of practice from over 15 years of bringing thinking maps into schools. The authors of the chapters before you bring forth insights grounded in practical examples and experiences from their travels. Together their work creates a compelling display of what can happen when thinking maps are used as a language for learning by students across different cultures and languages, for deepening instruction by teachers in classrooms, and for raising the quality of professional development and change processes within whole schools.This is because as a language of visual tools grounded in thinking processes, thinking maps ultimately unite a school faculty around a well-documented need in classrooms and a central organizing principle for twenty-first century education: equity of access to—and explicit teaching of—higher-order thinking tools for every child and every adult on the journey of lifelong learning.

Read the complete chapter in the book Student Successes With Thinking Maps. Key sections from the chapter Thinking Maps® as a Transformational Language for Learning with excerpts above include:

  • The Big Picture
  • A Brief Introduction to Thinking Maps as a Language
  • Thinking Maps as Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge
  • Five Qualities of Thinking Maps
  • Developing a Rock Rubric using Multiple Thinking Maps
  • Thinking Maps as a Transformational Language for Learning

David Hyerle, Ed.D. is the developer of the Thinking Maps model and author of the primary training resources for implementing Thinking Maps. Presently, David is the Director of Research and Development for DFT and facilitating new applications of Thinking Maps in the field. He is a frrequent keynote speaker, author of two A.S.C.D. books focused on visual tools, and developer of a new online course: Visual Tools for Literacy. David is also co-author with Larry Alper of the new leadership guide and training ... Thinking Maps: Leading with a New Language.

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