Mind Maps Across the Curriculum!

10/26/2013

This was "deadline week" for creative submissions in all my classes.

Somehow - even with a new house and a three-month-old baby - I'm keeping up with the deluge of papers to evaluate, edit, and return.

All my students had to submit four mind maps this quarter. I suggested they make at least one of them "notes from other classes."

Mind-mapping is such a useful and amazing life skill! I love to encourage my pupils to utilize the mind-mapping techniques for better learning in all their courses.

These recent submissions reinforce how my successful my mind-mapping lessons have been. You should give it a try with your classes!

3 Comments

Terri Pasqualin

10/23/2017 11:42:51 am

Hello! Back in 2013, I attended an NCTE session in Las Vegas where you presented your mind maps and showed some of the work your seniors were doing. At the time, a colleague and I were trying to have our middle school students "show" their understanding of different literary ideas through images and pictures. After attending your session, we began to use what we call our sketchbooks. For almost every novel we teach in 7th grade, we assign about fifteen pages of work where students show their understanding of characters, themes, literary devices, setting, and plot through writing and art. Our social studies teachers have also begun to use this, and all of us in the humanities department in 7th grade use these pages for alternative assessments. Next month, three of us, two English teaches and one social studies teacher, will be presenting at AMLE how we use our sketchbooks to assess students. I would like to give credit to what I learned from you and your session, and am asking permission to cite you as a source and an inspiration for what we are doing with our middle school students. May I? Thank you, Terri Pasqualin

Daniel W

10/23/2017 01:04:49 pm

Awesome!! Thank you for the update!! Please share my website and cite my work:). Thanks for letting me know all of this. Send me some samples of the kids work: [email protected].

Good luck at the conference!

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11/2/2023 04:34:57 pm

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Mind Maps Across the Curriculum!

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