Graphic Organizers

"Unless you try something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
- Ronale E. Osborn

When Creating Graphic Organizers

Consider:

"Graphic organizers are perhaps the most common way to help students generate nonlinguistic representations. ... Graphic organizers combine the linguistic mode in that they use words and phrases, and the nonlinguistic mode in that they use symbols and arrows to represents relationships." (Marzano. 2001. pg. 75)

Organizers should:

  • Elaborate on knowlege.
  • Focus on what is important.
  • Be most useful with unorganized information.
  • Invite responsive sense-making.

 

How do I do it? What does it look like? How do I assess? How can I learn more? What is it?

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