Thinking Maps

Thinking Maps has been an integral part of our innovative strategies for several years.  This is a research-based language for learning that has been designed in relation to the way the brain works.  It pairs eight visual patterns with these cognitive strategies: 

• sequencing

• brainstorming/defining

• comparing/contrasting

• finding relationships/analogies

• determining part-to-whole relationships

• describing

• seeing cause/effect relationships

• classifying