Mind Mapping Professional Development Workshops for Teachers

Workshop Objective:

This hightly interactive professional development workshop is designed specifically for teachers and will show you how to use Mind Maps with students as well as as personal tool to enhance your effectiveness

• Introduce a new topic in class
• Engage students in discussions
• Generate discussion and feedback
• Present material in ways that will help students remember
• Lesson preparation, curriculum planning, student assessments

Workshop Content:

Your Brain

• Principles of how your brain works and how to enhance learning with whole brain thinking

Encouraging Continuous Learning and Development

• Understanding how to reframe mistakes and failure to help students become more effective learners

Mind Maps

• The Laws of Mind Mapping
• Understanding the principles behind Mind Maps and how it relates to whole brain thinking
• How to read, create, apply and teach others to Mind Map
• Tips and common mistakes to avoid (by the way, did you know that the picture on the blackboard above is NOT a mind map?)

Applications

• A series of practical exercises that will show you how to apply and benefit from Mind Maps

Action Planning and Discussion

• Developing an action plan on how you will use Mind Maps in education
• Key elements to incorporate when using Mind Maps
• The principals behind effective Mind Mapping
• Practical Mind Mapping exercises

For more information about our Mind Mapping workshops for teachers, please call 03 8682 9776.

I very much enjoyed learning about Mind Mapping . Kathleen was an enthusiastic and flexible presenter who engaged us with her desire to sell the benefits of using mind maps. She also added specific direction which made us think extensively about how to use Mind Mapping. Thank you for a wonderful learning experience.

Amanda Swaney, Director of Learning, Ruyton Girls' School

I really enjoyed your presentation and thought you did a great job. I came back to school and introduced my grade 5 to Mind Mapping the very next day as part of their research into GOLD

Leanne Gould, Teacher, Strathcona

Excellent! I found it really useful. Thought it would be boring, but it was the opposite. I really got into it.

Sam Gyura, Association of Independent Schools Victoria