David hyerle biography

American author

David Hyerle is an author and creator of a thought-organization methodology called Thinking Maps that is popular in public schools in the United States.^[1]

Thinking Maps

In 1988, David Hyerle wrote Expand Your Thinking and introduced Thinking Maps.

These are a set of techniques used in primary and secondary education with the intention of providing a common visual language to information structure. There are eight types of maps:

• Circle Map: used for defining in context
• Bubble Map: used for describing with adjectives
• Flow Map: used for sequencing and ordering events
• Brace Map: used for identifying part/whole relationships
• Tree Map: used for classifying or grouping
• Double Bubble Map: used for comparing and contrasting
• Multi-flow map: used for analysing causes and effects
• Bridge map: used for illustrating analogies

He believed that all K-12 educators teach the same thought processes regardless of grade level and regardle