Picture Me Thinking
An Online Short-Course for Middle School and High School Educators
Explicit Scaffolding for the Inquiry-to-Writing Process
On-Site Training for Educators
A self-paced online video course for middle school and high school academic educators, delivered in 6 sessions of 30 minutes each. This course is designed for on-site delivery!
Revolutionary Inquiry Tools
The Picture Me Thinking Model is an evidence-based system of scaffolding that guides the inquiry dialogue toward argumentative essays. PMT is the only proven model to integrate both!
Powerful Writing Outcomes
Students easily adopt the PMT model and use it to frame their collaborative inquiry, problem-solving, and argumentation. Outcomes include strong essays that apply disciplinary concepts.
Professional Learning Communities
The Picture Me Thinking Model serves as a framework for collaborating on lesson plans that blend inquiry on core disciplinary concepts with essay 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.
Meta-research on argumentative essay writing shows that blending inquiry and writing instruction is the best way to improve students' academic writing (D. Miller et al. 2018) and deepen their understanding of academic concepts.
The Picture Me Thinking Model
The PMT Model is a system of scaffolding that can turn any curriculum into effective inquiry-based instruction (IBI).
The graphic/verbal model provides structure for integrating inquiry, problem-solving, and essay writing in grades 5-12.
Teaching with the PMT model develops students' capacity for productive, respectful, evidence-driven argumentation.
The model frames both teacher instruction and student self-regulation during collaboration on small group projects.
The cognitive strategies scaffolded by the model empower students to ask deeper questions of teachers, peers, the internet, and AI. This supports college and career readiness!
The PMT Model supports the inclusion of all students in 21st-century learning by making the core cognitive strategies and language for inquiry and writing explicit!
TRAINING VIDEOS INCLUDE CASE STUDY DEMONSTRATIONS
