Student successes with thinking maps : school-based research, results, and models for achievement using visual tools /
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| Imprint: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | xvi, 212 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5211241 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Foreword
- About the Editors
- Chapter 1. Thinking Maps as a Transformational Language for Learning
- Section 1. Linking Thinking, Language and Learning - search to Best Practices
- Chapter 2. Linking Brain Research to Best Practices
- Chapter 3. Leveling The Playing Field for All Students
- Chapter 4. Tools for Integrating Theories and Differentiating Practice
- Chapter 5. Closing the Gap By Connecting Culture, Language, and Cognition
- Section 2. Integrating Content and Process
- Chapter 6. Maps for the Road to Reading Comprehension: Bridging Reading Text Structures to Writing Prompts
- Chapter 7. Empowering Students From Thinking to Writing
- Chapter 8. Meeting the Challenge of High Stakes Testing in Middle School Mathematics
- Chapter 9. Thinking Technology
- Section 3. Uniting Whole Learning Communities
- Chapter 10. A First Language for Thinking in a Multilingual School
- Chapter 11. Feeder Patterns and Feeding the Flame at Blalack Middle School
- Chapter 12. Embracing Change: The Evolution of Thinking in a K-12 School
- Chapter 13. The Mississippi Story
- Chapter 14. The Singapore Experience: Student Centered Fluency
- Section 4. Transforming Professional Development
- Chapter 15. Inviting Explicit Thinking
- Chapter 16. Mentoring Mathematics Teaching and Learning
- Chapter 17. Thinking Maps: A Language for Leading and Learning
- References by Chapter
- About the Contributors
- Index