Using Concept Mapping to Foster Adaptive Expertise

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.

Diane Salmon received her doctorate in educational psychology (with concentrations in school psychology and human development) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989. She is a tenured faculty member at National-Louis University in the School and Educational Psychology Department and Research Director for the College of Education. Salmon is the author of several articles and a text for professional educators, . Melissa Kelly is a PhD candidate in educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is also a visiting clinical lecturer. Kelly has co-written several articles and book chapters related to online teaching and learning.

Contents: Metacognitive Learning – Our Metacognitive Learning Through and About Concept Mapping – Teacher Learning Trajectories – Selecting the Big Ideas – Articulating the Linking Phrases – Organizing Conceptual Structures – Creating Conceptual Coherence – Evaluating Concept Maps for Instructional Planning – Mentoring Instructional Planning Via Concept Maps – Collaborative Concept Mapping and Adaptive Expertise – Tools for Constructing Concept.