Differentiating With Graphic Organizers

Tools to Foster Critical and Creative Thinking
Patti Drapeau - Education Consultant
Differentiating With Graphic Organizers
September 2008 | 200 pages | Corwin
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"Drapeau is a teacher's teacher. This book is guaranteed to elevate student thinking while addressing the needs of individual learners at all skill levels. It's all here and ready to go, along with sound research for support."
—Pamela Lester, Enrichment Teacher
Clinton Township School District, Lebanon, NJ

"Graphic organizers, differentiated instruction, and creative and critical thinking—three topics on the frontline of teaching today, all together in one well-crafted text. This exciting book will not stay on the bookshelf; teachers will try the sample lessons and use and modify the graphic organizers to improve their practice and the achievement of their students."
—Karen Shible, Reading Specialist
Meachem Elementary School, Syracuse, NY

Use graphic organizers to challenge students, make learning exciting, and raise academic achievement!

Graphic organizers have proven to be successful tools for helping students develop their critical and creative thinking skills. This research-based resource shows how graphic organizers can improve teaching practices, help differentiate instruction in the classroom, and raise learning outcomes for all students, including English language learners and students with learning disabilities.

The author presents graphic organizers for nine types of thinking processes based on Bloom's taxonomy and offers examples of how to apply the graphic organizers in different subject areas and grade levels. This hands-on guide demonstrates how teachers can:

  • Promote the critical thinking processes of assuming, inferring, analyzing, prioritizing, and judging
  • Encourage the creative thinking processes of brainstorming, connecting, creating, and elaborating
  • Modify graphic organizers or create their own to meet individual learning needs

With assessment rubrics for providing quality feedback included, Differentiating With Graphic Organizers addresses ways to promote and build students' creative reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills and make the learning process a success.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: The Search

Introduction: The Search

Part I. Graphic Organizers, Critical Thinking, and Differentiation

  • 1. Graphic Organizers: Tools to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking
  • 2. Graphic Organizers: Tools to Promote Differentiation

Part II. 5 Critical Thinking Verbs and Graphic Organizers to Use With Them

  • 3. "Assume": Exploring What We Take for Granted
  • 4. "Infer": Drawing Conclusions
  • 5. "Analyze": Unpacking the Big Idea
  • 6. "Prioritize": Putting First Things First
  • 7. "Judge": Making Accurate Evaluations

Part III. 4 Creative Thinking Verbs and Graphic Organizers to Use With Them

  • 8. "Brainstorm": Generating Multiple Ideas
  • 9. "Connect": Making Unlikely Associations
  • 10. "Create": Making Something New
  • 11. "Elaborate": Getting the Details Down
  • 12. Putting It All Together: Curriculum Designs and Units of Study
  • 13. Conclusion: Essential FAQs

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

"Drapeau is a teacher's teacher. This book is guaranteed to elevate student thinking while addressing the needs of individual learners at all skill levels. It's all here and ready to go, along with sound research for support."
—Pamela Lester, Enrichment Teacher
Clinton Township School District, Lebanon, NJ

"Graphic organizers, differentiated instruction, and creative and critical thinking—three topics on the frontline of teaching today, all together in one well-crafted text. This exciting book will not stay on the bookshelf; teachers will try the sample lessons and use and modify the graphic organizers to improve their practice and the achievement of their students."
—Karen Shible, Reading Specialist
Meachem Elementary School, Syracuse, NY

Use graphic organizers to challenge students, make learning exciting, and raise academic achievement!

Graphic organizers have proven to be successful tools for helping students develop their critical and creative thinking skills. This research-based resource shows how graphic organizers can improve teaching practices, help differentiate instruction in the classroom, and raise learning outcomes for all students, including English language learners and students with learning disabilities.

The author presents graphic organizers for nine types of thinking processes based on Bloom's taxonomy and offers examples of how to apply the graphic organizers in different subject areas and grade levels. This hands-on guide demonstrates how teachers can:

  • Promote the critical thinking processes of assuming, inferring, analyzing, prioritizing, and judging
  • Encourage the creative thinking processes of brainstorming, connecting, creating, and elaborating
  • Modify graphic organizers or create their own to meet individual learning needs

With assessment rubrics for providing quality feedback included, Differentiating With Graphic Organizers addresses ways to promote and build students' creative reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills and make the learning process a success.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: The Search

Introduction: The Search

Part I. Graphic Organizers, Critical Thinking, and Differentiation

  • 1. Graphic Organizers: Tools to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking
  • 2. Graphic Organizers: Tools to Promote Differentiation

Part II. 5 Critical Thinking Verbs and Graphic Organizers to Use With Them

  • 3. "Assume": Exploring What We Take for Granted
  • 4. "Infer": Drawing Conclusions
  • 5. "Analyze": Unpacking the Big Idea
  • 6. "Prioritize": Putting First Things First
  • 7. "Judge": Making Accurate Evaluations

Part III. 4 Creative Thinking Verbs and Graphic Organizers to Use With Them

  • 8. "Brainstorm": Generating Multiple Ideas
  • 9. "Connect": Making Unlikely Associations
  • 10. "Create": Making Something New
  • 11. "Elaborate": Getting the Details Down
  • 12. Putting It All Together: Curriculum Designs and Units of Study
  • 13. Conclusion: Essential FAQs

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

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"Drapeau is a teacher's teacher. This book is guaranteed to elevate student thinking while addressing the needs of individual learners at all skill levels. It's all here and ready to go, along with sound research for support."
—Pamela Lester, Enrichment Teacher
Clinton Township School District, Lebanon, NJ

"Graphic organizers, differentiated instruction, and creative and critical thinking—three topics on the frontline of teaching today, all together in one well-crafted text. This exciting book will not stay on the bookshelf; teachers will try the sample lessons and use and modify the graphic organizers to improve their practice and the achievement of their students."
—Karen Shible, Reading Specialist
Meachem Elementary School, Syracuse, NY

Use graphic organizers to challenge students, make learning exciting, and raise academic achievement!

Graphic organizers have proven to be successful tools for helping students develop their critical and creative thinking skills. This research-based resource shows how graphic organizers can improve teaching practices, help differentiate instruction in the classroom, and raise learning outcomes for all students, including English language learners and students with learning disabilities.

The author presents graphic organizers for nine types of thinking processes based on Bloom's taxonomy and offers examples of how to apply the graphic organizers in different subject areas and grade levels. This hands-on guide demonstrates how teachers can:

  • Promote the critical thinking processes of assuming, inferring, analyzing, prioritizing, and judging
  • Encourage the creative thinking processes of brainstorming, connecting, creating, and elaborating
  • Modify graphic organizers or create their own to meet individual learning needs

With assessment rubrics for providing quality feedback included, Differentiating With Graphic Organizers addresses ways to promote and build students' creative reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills and make the learning process a success.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction: The Search
  • Part I. Graphic Organizers, Critical Thinking, and Differentiation
  • 1. Graphic Organizers: Tools to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking
  • 2. Graphic Organizers: Tools to Promote Differentiation
  • Part II. 5 Critical Thinking Verbs and Graphic Organizers to Use With Them
  • 3. "Assume": Exploring What We Take for Granted
  • 4. "Infer": Drawing Conclusions
  • 5. "Analyze": Unpacking the Big Idea
  • 6. "Prioritize": Putting First Things First
  • 7. "Judge": Making Accurate Evaluations
  • Part III. 4 Creative Thinking Verbs and Graphic Organizers to Use With Them
  • 8. "Brainstorm": Generating Multiple Ideas
  • 9. "Connect": Making Unlikely Associations
  • 10. "Create": Making Something New
  • 11. "Elaborate": Getting the Details Down
  • 12. Putting It All Together: Curriculum Designs and Units of Study
  • 13. Conclusion: Essential FAQs
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"Patti Drapeau has created an exciting resource that is incredibly useful to both novice and seasoned educators. She provides very clear and practical strategies for integrating graphic organizers, creative thinking, and critical thinking into classroom practices. I only wish that her book had been available to me as a beginning teacher."
Jim Curry, Associate Professor and Chair of Professional Education, University of Southern Maine
"Drapeau provides a well-researched, authoritative text that takes graphic organizers beyond 'capturing' factual information to structures that enable students to develop their critical and creative thinking skills. Such skills are essential to student success in today’s standards-based school settings."
Diane Heacox, Associate Professor of Education, University of St. Catherine
"Brilliantly written. Drapeau is a teacher's teacher. This book is guaranteed to elevate student thinking while addressing the needs of individual learners at all skill levels. It's all here and ready to go, along with sound research for support."
Pamela Lester, Enrichment Teacher, Clinton Township School District, Lebanon, NJ
"Graphic organizers, differentiated instruction, and creative and critical thinking—three topics on the frontline of teaching today, all together in one well-crafted text. This exciting book will not stay on the bookshelf; teachers will try the sample lessons and use and modify the graphic organizers to improve their practice and the achievement of their students."
Karen Shible, Reading Specialist, Meachem Elementary School, Syracuse, NY
"These organizers can be easily adopted or adapted for all content areas and are simple to use. They will quickly become a part of every teacher's professional repertoire."
Ira Waltz, Assistant Superintendent, Wells-Ogunquit Community School District, ME

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