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Presenter Introduction:• WELCOME TO THE

THINKING MAPS PRESENTATION

• LEARN HOW TO UTILIZE ALL 8 MAPS IN ALL CONTENT AREAS, DIFFERENT STAGES IN YOUR LESSON; TO HOOK, DIAGNOSIS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, DIRECT INSTRUCTION, COOPERATIVE LEARNING, ASSESSMENT

• YOUR PRESENTERSUSAN MCHENRY-BENDELEMAIL-SUSAN.MCHENRY-BENDEL@LEONAGROUP.COM• TRAINER OF TRAINER IN

THINKING MAPS, K-12, SAT AND ACT STRATEGIES

• 100 HOURS OF TRAINING

This Session’s Goals:

• TEACHER’S GOALS• CREATE LESSON PLANS

UTILIZING MORE THAN ONE THINKING MAP

• ENGAGING STUDENTS TO DAILY INTEGRATE THINKING MAPS IN THEIR LEARNING

• MODEL BY WRITING DAILY OBJECTIVES ON A FLOW MAP

• STUDENT’S GOALS• UTILIZE ALL THINKING

MAPS IN ALL SUBJECTS• DEMONSTRATE USAGE OF

THINKING MAPS TO INCREASE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

• SET GOALS FOR BLOCK ON A CLASSIFYING MAP TO IMPROVE LEARNING

Research Based Support for Today’s Session:

• ERIC JENSEN84% OF ALL INFORMATION TO THE BRAIN IS VISUAL

• ROBERT MARZANOIMPORTANCE OF STUDENTS CREATING THEIR OWN VISUALS

• RUBY PAYNETHE MIND NEEDS TO SORT AGAINST THE STRUCTURE OF TEXT

• THINKING MAPS IMPROVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE THROUGH ENGAGEMENT AND ORGANIZE THINKING

• GIVE TEACHERS INSTANT DATA ON STUDENT PROGRESS AND NEEDS

• ENABLE STUDENTS TO VIEW THEIR WORK MORE CLEARLY/SEE ACCOMPLISHMENTS/NEEDS FOR IMPROVEMENTS

“In order to remember, the mind must sort through information and store what is important and discard what is not important.

In order to remember the important parts of text, the mind needs to sort against the structure of the text.”

“Building Learning Structures Inside the Head” Ruby Payne, Ph.D.

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COLLABORATION DURING CLASS PERIOD

Hold the map you have created in your hand and stand up.

Raise your hand, holding up either one, two, three or four fingers based on your

assignment.

Locate someone else with the same number and pair with that person.

Exchange maps and discuss your ideas with each other. “Borrow” ideas from each other

and add them to your own map.

TURN TO YOUR SHOULDER PARNTER AND SHARE IDEAS

CONTENT SPECIFIC AND CROSSING CURRICULUM

SCIENCE

• LABELING • BRACE MAP TO LABEL THE BONES

• COLLABORATE WITH A PARTNER FOR IDEAS ON HOW TO STRETCH IT FOR DEEPER THINKING

• HOW WOULD YOU UTILIZE THIS MAP WITH A VISUAL IN YOUR CONTENT?

STEP 3: Post your examples by Thinking Map.

THINKING MAPS ACROSS

ALL CONTENT AREAS

Create a Tree Map to identify words that are critical to academic content for several units

you will be teaching this year.

REFLECTION (TICKET OUT THE DOOR)CREATE A THINKING MAP OF YOUR CHOICE THAT YOU WILL USEWITH YOUR STUDENTS. WRITE THE REFLECTION QUESTION[S] AND PLEASE ANSWER AS A LEARNER TODAY. THANK YOU.

Thank You!!!

• A session survey will be emailed to you this week through a Googledoc. Kindly complete it so we can reflect and improve future PD efforts.

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