Using Concept Mapping to Foster Adaptive Expertise

Enhancing Teacher Metacognitive Learning to Improve Student Academic Performance

Diane Salmon, Melissa Kelly

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781453914366
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Adult Education

Concept mapping is a powerful means to promote metacognitive learning in students and teachers alike. When teachers integrate concept mapping into their instructional planning, they clarify the big ideas, expose new conceptual relationships, and refine learning goals for their students. Salmon and Kelly provide a research-based framework and corresponding strategies to help teachers develop, critique, and revise their concept maps. In using this approach, teachers refine knowledge for teaching in order to expand their adaptive expertise and ultimately improve the academic performances of their students. Teacher candidates at both the undergraduate and graduate level can use this book to support their professional learning and planning for teaching. Teacher educators will find this text appropriate for courses that address learning, cognition, and instructional planning. In-service professionals can use the approach described here to support their own professional development through their practice. Administrators and coaches will find the volume a useful tool in fostering a professional learning community in their schools.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I. Theoretical and Empirical Basis for Teacher Concept Mapping
• Part II. Four Core Practices of Concept Mapping
• Part III. Tools for Integrating Multiple Perspectives Within and Across Concept Maps
• Conclusions
• References
• Appendix A. Sample Concept Maps
• Appendix B. Concept Mapping Tools
• Author Index
• Subject Index