Thinking Maps®
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
Darlene Roberts
Background
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
•Created in 1988 by David Hyerle, Director
of Curriculum and Professional Development
with Innovative Learning Group
•Fully integrated into the JROTC curriculum
in 2005
Facts
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
•Visual learning tools with a clearly defined, common thinking
process language. Each map is based on a fundamental thinking
skill. 8 Total.
•Used across all grade levels
•Fully implemented into some school districts
•Fully integrated into the JROTC curriculum in 2005
•Core lesson for LET 1, Unit 3, Chapter 3, Lesson 1
•Software and Training disks
The Human Brain
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
“Thinking Maps
store information
the way the brain
does.”
“The brain is a
pattern seeker.”
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
Better learning will come
not so much from finding
better ways for the teacher
to
INSTRUCT...
...but from giving the
learner better ways to
CONSTRUCT.
Seymore Papert, 1990
Defining in Context
Reputation
Husband
6 Disk CD
Player
Vehicle
2002
Sunroof
Cost
Test Drive
Describing Qualities
Vehicle
Compare and Contrast
Classifying
Part-Whole
Sequencing
Sequencing
Little Known Major Events
1. Draw a Flow Map with 4 or more boxes.
2. Using pictures only, illustrate 4 major events in your life.
My Example
Kids
Air Force
Husband
Job Security
Cause and Effect
Seeing Analogies
Seeing Analogies
SAT Sample Question
1.water: ice:
a. cucumber: pickle
b.tree: paper
c. cream: butter
d.oranges: juice
Relating Factor: in a solid state becomes
Actions for Successful Implementation
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
1. Essential First Step: Introduce students to one
Thinking Map at a time
2. Display posters in front of the room as you introduce
Maps.
3. Use Maps to guide your questioning and responses.
4. Display students’ Map work on classroom and hallway
walls.
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
•Plots thoughts for visual learners
•Helps you place events in sequence
•You have a better understanding of the story
•Helps you in structuring papers
•Helps you to weed out important vs. not important facts
•Finds patterns in characters
•Gets you to focus on the main points
•Useful for note taking
•Helpful in literature, history and speech
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”
Identifying Similarities and Differences
Summarizing and Note Taking
Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Homework and Practice
Nonlinguistic Representations
“Motivating young people to be better citizens”