This comprehensive resource pack equips schools with everything needed to teach and integrate mind-mapping as a powerful, essential study skill. Mind-mapping enhances students' ability to organise and consolidate ideas, take effective notes, and explore connections between concepts, making it invaluable for revision, productivity, and lifelong learning. The resource promotes metacognitive reflection and self-regulated learning, benefiting all students by improving literacy, research, and deep-reading skills. With ten resources, including templates, worksheets, challenges, and video learning sessions, this download offers a definitive approach to fostering mind-mapping skills in all subjects.
This download contains everything you need to bring mind-mapping to your school. It was borne of our conviction that mind-mapping is a study-skill that should be considered as essential, non-optional, and incredibly powerful as a means for boosting overall learning-power. Mind-mapping is an essential study-skill since it:
- Allows students to organise and consolidate ideas
- Enhances note-taking
- Is ideal for revision
- Transferable to all school subjects and invaluable for life-long learning
- Allows students to explore connections between different concepts
- Increases productivity (i.e. because mind-mapping is much faster than the alternatives)
- Synergises with other learning-skills (such as research, deep-reading, & listening skills)
- Is useful for metacognitive reflection and self-regulated learning activities
By teaching students about mind-mapping and encouraging them to practice: it creates a holistic benefit for all of their studies. It is a study-skill that benefits students of all levels: students with poor literacy skills can enhance their learning through mind-mapping whilst gifted students can enhance their productivity and efficiency with it.
This download includes ten resources and is a comprehensive and definitive way to address mind-mapping skills training in your school, those ten resources are:
- Introducing Mind-Maps
- Introduction, Applications & Benefits of Mind-Maps
- Mind-Map Reading Comprehension Templates (x10)
- Mind-Map Worksheets to Use With Long Documentaries
- The Mind-Map Challenge
- Mind-Maps for Brainstorming & Group Work (P4C Related)
- Video Learning Session [Videos About Mind-Mapping & A3 Worksheets (x3)]
- Generic Mind-Map Practice Templates (x4)
- Using Mind-Maps for Speed Reading & Fast Note-Taking
- Mind-Maps for Personal Reflection & DIRT (A3 & A4 Worksheets)
As you can see, the mind-mapping practice activities also connect with broader metacognitive and self-regulated learning skills and development. Download today and teach this important study-skill to your students!
This resource is especially important for teachers and schools focused on fostering study skills and nurturing independent learners because it:
- Enhances metacognitive and self-regulated learning by teaching students to plan, organise, and reflect through mind-mapping.
- Boosts productivity and efficiency by introducing a faster and more effective way to take notes and revise.
- Supports a wide range of students, improving literacy for struggling learners while enhancing creativity and efficiency for advanced learners.
- Encourages holistic learning by connecting mind-mapping with research, brainstorming, and other essential academic skills.
- Provides versatile, ready-to-use resources that integrate mind-mapping into various classroom activities across all subjects.
The Power of Mind-Maps
Focus: Study Skills, Mind-Mapping Skills, Self-Regulated Learning & Metacognition
Main Aim: To teach students effective mind-mapping skills whilst using mind-maps for metacognitive reflection and self-regulated learning.
Designed for students aged 11-16License Terms:
Whole-School LicenseSystem Requirements:
Microsoft Office
WinZip (we recommend: 7-Zip or WinRar)
Windows 7+, 1.5GHZ, 1GB RAM
File Formats: .doc (Microsoft Word), PowerPoint Presentations & .zipPrinting Information:
Contains both A4 & A3 [US Size: Tabloid / Ledger (ANSI B)] printables
Copyrighted by The Global Metacognition Institute (2019)
Strictly not for re-distribution outside of your own school.