It can be frustrating when students you know have potential don't achieve as much as they could - they can have great ideas, but don't always know how to convey them. Through time they can lose interest, become disengaged from the learning process, and in extreme cases, become disruptive in class.

Teaching is a challenging profession with many pressures. However, there are ways to help lighten the load, such as taking advantage of new techniques and technology to make classes more inclusive and enhance the learning experience for you and your students.

MindGenius helps make your classes more inclusive, your students grow in confidence, and ultimately achieve what they are capable of.

Over 500 schools and around 350 further educational establishments have been using MindGenius for 8 years now.
MindGenius education helps with...

Collaborative Learning
Essays
Projects
Class Presentations
Study
Mind Mapping
Lesson Planning

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Collaborative Learning

Getting group discussion underway can be enjoyable but equally challenging. Keeping everyone involved and engaged is demanding, as you are faced with a wide variation of abilities and willingness to speak in class.
The MindGenius approach and application provides a focal point for discussion, encourages wider interaction and has been proven to keep students interested longer.
This helps you to:
  • facilitate collaborative learning
  • stimulate and capture class discussion
  • encourage peer to peer learning
  • make your classes more interactive
  • get different skills levels to engage and keep them engaged

After you have created a map with your class, if you wish, you can incorporate the ideas into a lesson plan, use the map at the end of a topic to highlight what's been covered, or use the information as the basis for revision guides or frameworks for essays or projects.
Essays

Reviewing essays can be frustrating. Some students initial ideas may show promise but they haven't been executed that well, or the essay may lack structure and order.
The MindGenius approach and application allows students to focus on their ideas and content without having to worry about the order of their ideas, or the formatting of the document.
In addition, MindGenius helps them to:
  • spend time fully exploring what they need to do in order to understand the question
  • use a questioning approach to develop a rounded view on their content
  • focus on their content rather than the way the document looks
  • restructure their ideas at any point to add order and structure to their essay
Projects

Students often enjoy working on projects, however, their project may miss the mark due to a lack of understanding on what's required, or they may become overwhelmed by the amount of information available to them and don't know how to make sense of it. This can lead to moments of panic for the student.
The MindGenius approach and application gives students the ability to consolidate information from different sources into a simplified, keyword driven form that helps to increase understanding and reduce the amount of information students need to work with.
This helps students to:
  • undertake thorough research to gain a better understanding of the topic
  • plan out the project ensuring they don't miss anything
  • understand how the different elements of a project come together and structure their report
  • keep on top of the different tasks they might need to complete as part of the project
  • develop a checklist and tick off component parts of the project
Class Presentations

Building students confidence in presentations can be challenging with many students being nervous about speaking, or embarrassing themselves, in front of their class. They may be afraid that they haven't pulled together the right information, or that they will forget sections of their presentation.

The MindGenius approach and application transforms the way students prepare and conduct presentations. They are able to rapidly pull together a presentation by focusing initially on content, flow and message before spending time on format and visual enhancements. The keyword technique and associated information breaks the presentation into managable chunks, which makes it easier to maintain eye contact without fear of losing their place within their notes.
Students will be able to:
  • research information and then consolidate it into a more manageable amount
  • visually recognise where there are gaps in their knowledge to enable them to produce a more rounded view on the content
  • personalise their presentation to aid memory recall

This all adds up to well structured presentations, delivered with style and confidence.
Study

Getting students prepared for exams can be challenging and despite best efforts some students may find they don't achieve as much as they could.

The MindGenius approach and application helps students to structure their studying efforts and quickly create their study notes using keywords and associations. The maps they create can be personalised with colour and images to aid memory recall and used to help students test their own knowledge. While hand drawn mind maps can also help with the study process, maps created with MindGenius can be edited, added to or re-arranged at any time with no need to recreate the map from scratch.
This helps students to:
  • get started with their revision
  • summarise the amount of information they are working with create fast and effective study notes
  • remember facts and figures more easily
  • refer back to their map at any point to revise or add more information
Mind Mapping  
Mind Mapping is a valuable educational technique for learning and studying and it helps learners to summarise and recall information when they need it for exams. Some students may already have experience of hand drawn mind maps but as useful as hand drawn maps are, they have limitations when you need to explore the issue in more detail or when you need to use your information elsewhere.

The MindGenius approach and application helps students to map information electronically, re-order it any time, add further information without the need to recreate the map, and to develop structure into their ideas.
MindGenius allows students to:
  • reorganise or amend their map at any time
  • see key points at a glance personalise their maps to aid memory recall
  • use the information they have pulled together as the basis for essays or presentations
Lesson Planning

Producing effective lesson plans is a time consuming task. Working out the lesson outcomes, the different activities required to deliver the lesson and how you will assess the effectiveness of the lesson can encroach into time at home.

The MindGenius approach and application allows you to quickly map out learning objectives and outcomes, gather your thoughts on what you need to cover, and pull together all the resources you need to plan your lesson into one document.
This helps you to:
  • explain lesson objectives clearly
  • use a template to quickly gather information on what you need to cover
  • speed up the time required to create your lesson plan

         

 

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