1. ISC Understanding Maps

2. ISC Understanding Maps
What kinds of different things
can you do when you are
trying to understand something?

3. ISC Understanding Maps
How students represented their ideas
The kinds of ideas students have
about understanding

4. Lists, Webs, Narratives

6. Webs

8. Radiating Star
Understanding

9. Radiating Star, 2+ tiers
Understanding

10. Radiating Star, 2 + tiers
Understanding

11. Radiating Star, 2 + tiers
Understanding

13. Radiating Star, 2+ tiers with Elaboration

15. Radiating Star
Understanding

16. Radiating Star, 2+ Tiers
Understanding

17. Interconnected Radiating Star
Understanding

18. Interconnected Radiating Star

20. Flow Charts

22. Dimensions
Strategy
Self Management
Meta Knowledge

23. Dimensions Strategy: 98% of all Students
Self Management: 46% of all Students
Meta Knowledge: 2.7% of all Students

24. Considering other perspectives
Dimensions
Strategy
Information seeking
Imaging
Writing things down
Memory “tricks”
Taking stock
Social/Co-thinking
Brainstorming
Synthesizing
Considering other perspectives
Parts to whole

25. Determination/ Effort
Dimensions
Self Management
Determination/ Effort
Confidence
Relax-”take a break”
Focus
Learn from Mistakes
Do it yourself
Practice

26. Ideas about the object or activity
Dimensions
Meta Knowledge
Ideas about the object or activity
of understanding

28. The Three Dimensions When and Where?
When are you seeing
this kind of thinking in your
students?
Where do you see it
happening?