Picture Me Thinking
Explicit Scaffolding for the Inquiry-to-Writing Process
An expedient online short-course for middle school and high school educators.
The Picture Me Thinking Model helps teachers, students, and adults in the workplace structure their thinking to support learning, collaboration, and communication.
On-Site Online Educator Training
A self-paced online video course for middle school and high school academic educators. Segmented into five levels (25 minutes per level). Perfect for on-site professional learning!
Revolutionary Inquiry Tools
The Picture Me Thinking Model is a research-based system of scaffolding. It is modeled by the teacher and adopted by students to guide their collaborative inquiry across disciplines.
Powerful Writing Outcomes
The Picture Me Thinking Model makes the parallel structure of inquiry and essay writing transparent. It explicitly guides students on how to develop arguments during inquiry.
Professional Learning Communities
The Picture Me Thinking Model serves as a universal framework for collaborating to create lessons that blend inquiry on disciplinary concepts with writing instruction.
Integrating inquiry and essay writing is a priority goal of the standards for English language arts and other academic disciplines in STEAM and social studies, in grades 6-12.
Meta-research on argumentative essay writing has shown that blending inquiry and essay writing instruction is the best method for improving academic writing (Miller, 2018).
Further, IBI deepens students' understanding of how to apply concepts in interdisciplinary problem-solving projects. When all students know how to use the same inquiry tools, they arrive ready to jump into learning.
The Picture Me Thinking Model
The PMT Model supports the inclusion of all students in inquiry-based learning by making the core cognitive strategies used for the inquiry-to-writing process explicit!
Both teachers and students use the graphic/verbal PMT model to structure, facilitate, and integrate inquiry projects with argumentative essay writing, across subjects.
The PMT model scaffolds phenomenon-based, model-driven, argument-driven, and concept-based inquiry and makes these approaches cohesive and transparent.
The PMT Course Videos Include Case-Study Demonstrations
It's so easy to try out!
Time-efficient and affordable, at $10 per level or $45 for the full course!
Take one level at a time at your own pace. The PMT Course will be in your library for 18 months.
