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 quickly adopt the PMT model and use it to guide their collaborative inquiry and essay outlining about disciplinary core concepts. Then students write well-structured first drafts!
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).
The Picture Me Thinking Model
The PMT Model is a system of scaffolding that can turn any curriculum into effective inquiry-based instruction (IBI). Teaching with the model improves students' capacity for respectful, evidence-based dialogue.
The graphic/verbal model provides structure for integrating inquiry, problem-solving, and essay writing in grades 5-12.
The model frames both teacher instruction and student self-regulation during collaboration on small group projects. Teaching with the model improves students' capacity for respectful, evidence-based dialogue.
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.
These cognitive strategies empower students to ask the deep questions of AI, teachers, peers, and interviewees. These are critical skills for college and career readiness!
TRAINING VIDEOS INCLUDE CASE STUDY DEMONSTRATIONS
