Megan Jones

February 26, 2011

Chapter Seven - Notes

Chapter 7 – Picture This: Graphic Organizers in the Classroom

Intro
Heading/Subheading Promoting
Informationandof I do like me
Reaction of some
extending student
interest graphic organizers. As
information
understanding of an organized person, I
concepts and like to be able to show
relationships my thoughts and quickly
understand them later
on.

Teaching and learning Are helpful for students As mentioned above I

with Graphic Organizers with disabilities. do personally like
graphic organizers and I
Promote recall
can see why they should
information.
be used regularly in a
Very effective for classroom. I am sitting
science classrooms. here however trying to
figure out how I can use
Great for ELL students; them in my
visual cues mathematics classroom.
Engages all students

When to use graphic Strength is not only in I think this is very true,
organizer use but in TIMING timing is EVERYTHING in
education. If students
Prereading pattern
are not ready, then the
guide, to help develop a
effort is wasted. I also
cluster of knowledge
have to remember that
Most popular is GO’s are used to help
postreading activity teach, not as a product
of what is learned, I feel
Biggest mistake is using like several teachers
them as an end product, don’t use GO’s properly.
not to help learning

Types of Graphic Part of instructional aids Concept maps are what

Organizers called adjunct displays. people, including
myself, visualize when
Semantic webs,
they hear the words
concepts maps,
“graphic organizer.” I
flowcharts, matrix, and
think using a variety is
diagrams (tree
rather important, it
diagrams) and a variety
helps to meet the needs
of versions.
of a lot more students
Concept maps are than just continually
favored by educators using one type of
organizer.

Teaching graphic Must be introduced Teaching HOW to use a

organizers carefully graphic organizer might
be the hardest part of
Need proper scaffolding
using and organizer.
Steps: You don’t want to
Set the purpose assume a student
Specific type of GO understands how to use
model a graphic organizer
show examples properly because that
ask questions just allows a lot more
use a new text room for error.
practice opportunities
provide blank copies

Using graphic Assessment is to To be honest I never

organizers for provide opportunities really put much thought
assessment for students to into using a graphic
demonstrate their organizer as a way to
knowledge. assess. I am currently
enrolled in an
assessment class and
this is one of the topics
of discussion, but I just
didn’t put two and two
together.

Graphic organizers in Used in geometry and At the start of this

mathematics precalc chapter I was having
difficulty trying to
 At the start and end of decided how I would use
units graphic organizers in my
classroom. But what I
More likely to make
didn’t realize is that I
connections of what
personally use them all
they know and what
the time. The compare
they are going to learn
and contrast is a vital
Collaborative study with GO in the math
peers, and it’s classroom. Even if I was
importance to compare the steps of
one process to another.
Compare/contrast I like the comparison of
theories.
Page 143, how are
these alike how are Overwhelmed so much
these different information to apply in
(hyperbolas and my first year of
ellipses) teaching!

Conclusion To be used throughout The conclusion

the curriculum to help mentioned and
students understand the reviewed what we had
relationships between discussed above.
ideas. Graphic organizers are a
vital tool in the tool box
Aid in comprehension,
of educators.
regardless of when they
are used

Summary: I actually liked this chapter. Not only did I use questioning on
the beginning (how will I use graphic organizers in a math classroom) but as I
read I realized how important these tools are and then later realized that I
already use them. My goal as a teacher is to use a GO at least once per unit,
as one of the teacher in the book, she used it as a tool to help them connect
information and start to work better with peers. I want my students to be
able to find information on their own and then apply it. I also was surprised
about how they can be used for assessment purposes, what a fantastic idea!