Think it, Map It!

by Ian Harris and Oliver Caviglioli

Published 1 June 2003
Think It-Map it! is the most relevant, practical and helpful bok yet written on mapping techniques in the classroom. By showing you what pupils' thinking looks like, Think it-Map it! gives you the necessary insights to integrate literacy, thinking skills and accelerated learning in your classrooms. You are given a clear overview of the reasons why this visual tool works so effectively in both the teaching and learning processes. You will find out how teachers have used model mapping to make their lives easier, enabled them to focus on Teaching and Learning and supported them in improving results. In this book you will learn how an iner city primary teacher raised her classes SATs English results by 23 per cent, and how a grammar school received outstanding plaudits from its inspection.

Think you can't see someone's thinking? Think again! This book reveals what happens when the normally private, hidden and undefined act of thinking is transformed into one that is public, available and explicit. "Thinking Skills & Eye Q" is a lexicon of visual tools - once tooled up, you can transform teaching and learning in your classroom. This book shows how to use 40 different visual tools to: infuse the teaching of the five National Curriculum Thinking Skills into subject teaching; develop writing skills in all six genres; show pupils how to be independent and creative thinkers and learners; make speaking and listening, questioning and responding an integral part of all lessons; and raise IQ.