Monday, July 2, 2007
Chapter 16 BPR
In this chapter Jackson and Cooper talk about thinking maps. I really like the idea of thinking maps and often times assigned them to students during my student teaching. Most of the time I think they were beneficial to the students. However, I feel like i need to be trained more so that I can more effectively use them. I assigned a concept map for students to complete related to capitalism and Socialism. We as a class were studying the Cold War and I thought this would be beneficial. We did capitalism together and I then ad the students complete the socialism one by themselves. The students really struggled to get a grasp on Socialism and this was after we discussed and read about the two systems. Perhaps this was a day when the students were unmotivated or perhaps I was not effective at helping them discover Socialism. I knew it would be a difficult concept for them to master, which is why I assigned the concept map. I feel like that one instance I could have done something better or amended my instruction to better the experience for all. I do want to say I have used concept maps many times and find them to be quite effective.
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I read the bit on thinking maps tonight and had a lot of discrepancies and uneasy feelings about them. So I want to ask you, someone who has utilized them, a few questions. Did you eventually use the thinking maps for writing? Did you use the certain thinking maps as assessment for pre-writing or a final assessment or none of the above? Obviously it helped your students, which is awesome.
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