Blog for 4/1/2009

How will you use graphic organizers for teaching, learning, and collaboration?  Why would the use of graphic organizers by both you, the teacher, and your students help improve learning?

Graphic Organizers would be helpful to visually (through icons more than words) show concepts better for my young preschoolers.  

Graphic organizers would be helpful for my staff to see during each area of the day what goals are being worked on.

Graphic organizers would be helpful with collaborating with staff to see how goals are going to be implemented and with whom.

Graphic organizers could help me be more organized in my lesson plans, show parents visually my thought process for a theme, and could help me generate new ideas.

Graphic organizers would help my students understand in more in depth the topics/themes that we use.  I could set up a good sorting activity based on the theme, categories, and picture/word matching games.