Thinking Maps

When I think back to all the professional development I have had this year....and there has been a lot for me....one of of the workshops that really excited me the most was the thinking maps one. Christy Nolan came to our school and gave us a class that defined and showed us how to use thinking maps. I don't want to say "everybody" because it is never "everybody"...but most of the teachers I talked to were excited about them, too. Our media specialist even commented several times that it was so nice to see so many teachers engaged and even laughing during Christy's couple of days at our school. We are looking at using thinking maps school wide at our school next year. I think that is a great idea. Using the thinking maps over and over along the three grade levels will help it become ingrained and give students learning tools they can use in high school and college. I also find the thinking maps a handy way to organize data myself.