Books in the Field of Visual Thinking
Student Successes With Thinking Maps®
David Hyerle, Editor with Sarah Curtis and Larry Alper coeditors
Corwin Press, 2004, Thousand Oaks, California
“The Thinking Maps® program takes full advantage of the natural proclivity of the brain to see and think visually. The authors describe Thinking Maps as a language of visual tools grounded in the thinking process, a most neurally apt description. This book provides an invaluable way to help our students truly understand and retain the concepts behind the facts, and to do this in an exciting and motivating way.” read more
Pat Wolfe, Author, Building the Reading Brain
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Visual Tools for Transforming Information Into Knowledge
David Hyerle, Author
Arthur L. Costa, Prologue
Robert J. Marzano, Foreward
Corwin Press, 2008, Second Edition
This is the most comprehensive book on graphic organizers, Thinking Maps®, and graphic software programs. Find out why visual tools and mapping are the key tools for 21st century learning. Look at student and teacher work and review test results from around the country. In a rich and provocative writing style, David Hyerle, Ed.D. draws together examples from teachers, administrators, brain researchers, and parents to make a very exciting read.
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Reviews of A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools (previous edition)
Review of A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools by the National Writing Project
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“A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools (Hyerle, 2000) is an excellent source of information regarding the many forms of graphics and their use in educational settings.”
Patricia Wolfe
Brain Matters — Translating Research into Classroom Practice, (ASCD 2001) p. 159
Review of A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools by American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
Reviewed by Paul A. Roberts - Principal, Glen Grove Elementary School, Glenview, Ill.
American Association of School Administrators, September 2001
“Thinking outside the box may or may not be the appropriate point of view as you experience A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools by David Hyerle. The "box" is a point of reference for graphic organizers and reflects a frame of reference that formally adds a new dimension to visual maps. This sequel to Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge deals with the practical applications of thinking-process maps and gives real-life school examples.”
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Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge
David Hyerle, Author
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 1996
Currently Out of Print
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Deeply rooted in constructivist theory, this book draws on philosophical and psychological models of how the mind works, how human intellectual capacities emerge and grow over time, how humans derive meaning, and how knowledge is structured. The intent is to provide educators with insights into how interventions can be arranged and conditions organized so as to educe, enhance, and refine those human intellectual resources.” From the Prologue by Arthur L. Costa. Download and read the complete Prologue (Acrobat PDF file).
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“One of the most comprehensive treatments of graphic organizers can be found in the book Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge by David Hyerle (1996).”
Robert Marzano
Classroom Instruction that Works, (ASCD, 2001) pg.75
Thinking Literacy in an Age of ICT with David Hyerle
Auckland Education, Term 4 1998
“David Hyerle's book Visual tools for constructing knowledge, ASCD, 1996 is a must for all thinking principals and teachers.”
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Online Course - Visual Tools for Literacy
Presenter: Dr. David Hyerle
This course is a time saving and effective way to introduce a whole school and/or school system to these research-based, practical tools for literacy.
Dr. Hyerle draws extensively from the research and graphic displays found in the seven chapters of his ASCD Book:“A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools.” With an engaging and motivational style, David presents the practical applications of visual tools to reading comprehension and writing processes for all children. Watch and listen to a summary of the course in the quicktime video below. If you are unable to see the video clip within this descriptive, you can also click here to watch the Windows Media Player version.
This course includes:
- a complete video workshop presentation by Dr. Hyerle, with theory, research, and practical applications
- 7 thirty minute video sections, chunked into meaningful segments
- extensive handouts as PDF files that are linked to each segment
- feedback assessments useful for course credit and self-reflection
Habits of Mind
Edited by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2000
Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, define and describe 16 types of intelligent behavior in their four book series, Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series, published in 2000 by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in Alexandria, VA. Habits of Mind aid students in school and adults in everyday life as they are challenged by problems, dilemmas, paradoxes, and enigmas for which the solutions are not immediately apparent. Drawing on the Habits of Mind means knowing how to behave intelligently when you don't know the answers. It means not only having information, but also knowing how to act on it. Go to the following websites for more information:
Habits of Mind website www.habits-of-mind.net
Australia Habits of Mind network website www.habitsofmind.org
Learning How to Learn (1984)
Joseph Novak and Bob Gowin
Cambridge University Press.
Patterns of Thinking (1991)
John Clarke
Needham Heights, MA
Allyn and Bacon
Maps, Mindscapes, and more (1993)
Nancy Margulies
Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press
I See What You Mean (1995)
Steve Moline
York, ME: Stenhouse Press.
The Mind Map Book (1996)
Tony Buzan
New York: Plume/Penguin