REFLECTION 

 How Mind Mapping as a tool can improve Critical Thinking skill in   Secondary Students ? 

 Challenge     In my 20 years of teaching learning career , I found my biggest challenge in guiding 

 students to improve their critical thinking Skills . Understanding the speciﬁc demands of 

 the questions and drafting answers accordingly in other than native language is like a 

 walking on a thin rope . When the answers need a balanced approach , relevant eﬀective 

 arguments using appropriate vocabulary and concepts the task in real become boring 

 and tiring . Developing balanced thinking approach is diﬃcult for the students belongs to 

 non - english speaking students due to poor reading writing habits . Above all , the practice 

 of the exam centred education system encourages the students to memorise instead of 

 developing thinking skills . Student also face problem in aligning arguments eﬀectively due 

 to missing culture of focus on multidimensional studies . They face challenge in 

 deciphering supporting or counter arguments in accordance to the question ’s 

 requirement . Writing essays using subject speciﬁc vocabulary and concepts is non 

 existent in such an environment due to weak vocabulary . It a challenge for the teacher to 

 promote critical thinking skills which can prepare young mind for the VUCA   world .   1 

 Keeping all these challenges in mind , future generation need to be nurtured today in the 

 most eﬀective manner using diﬀerent techniques like visualisation , story telling , mind map 

 and learning launch . 

 Selection   Out of above mentioned four techniques , I found mind map approach more promising than to 

 others . Mind map technique allows students to get involve in the process of assimilation   of 

 multidimensional knowledge , helps to prepare a roadmap to present the concepts , ideas the 

 arguments in coherence . It categories the answer in accordance to the speciﬁc requirement of the 

 questions based on command terms like discuss and evaluate . It allow student to work in groups 

 and to promote their views in speciﬁc patterns . Excellent students can use visualisation , story 

 telling or learning launch but mind map is a ray of hope with below average and moderate 

 students . During testing of this technique , I found many student group applied the visualisations 

 techniques to mind map sheets and have been successful in presenting their ideas in appealing 

 manner . 

 VUCA stands for the volatility , uncertainty , complexity and ambiguity , a term ﬁrst used by Bennis   1 and Nanus in leadership theory in 1987 . 

 Application 

 Initially , I divides young learner in the groups consisting student with diﬀerentiated learning 

 capabilities which provides conducive environment of auditory , visual and kinaesthetic learners . 

 Student groups are challenged to work on the real - world issues . They are tasked to ﬁnd an 

 appropriate strategy or solution to the speciﬁc problems . Using mind map student are 

 encouraged to brainstorm the various argument . Groups are allowed to work speciﬁcally designed 

 mind map . I have notices the students were able to understand the speciﬁc requirement the 

 questions due the their practice on the speciﬁcally designed worksheet based on mind map 

 techniques . Increase in average score for the critically thinking question validate the importance of 

 practicing using mind map techniques . Some of the problems identiﬁed by the students for critical 

 thinking are like : Eﬀective method to provide food packets to the Cov19 houses in the society . 

 Eﬀective protective measure for taxi drivers and autorikshow drivers in Cov19 areas . 

 Insight 

 Mindmap technique helps the student cohorts to identify the real - world issues and allow them to 

 brainstorm the solutions . This technique makes discussion more focused easy to compile the 

 arguments eﬀectively . It also allow each member of the group to participate eﬀectively . I applied 

 this technique to student of secondary and senior secondary students and found encouraging 

 results in term of improvement in creative thinking . It improve the level of self motivation to 

 empathise the problems faced by the society . This technique helped to improve the level 

 coordination among the students which is very important to prepare the prototype and testing the 

 hypothesis regarding the product . 

 Approach 

 Mindmap techniques is very helpful in preparing blue print and in most collaborative manner . On 

 the other hand story telling and visualisation process can help improve the independent self 

 learning by making them more empathetic to the real world issues . I would like to use the 

 technique that could combine the visualisation and story telling in order to prepare student for 

 developed independent self learning . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: REFLECTION 

 How Mind Mapping as a tool can improve Critical Thinking skill in   Secondary Students ? 

 Challenge     In my 20 years of teaching learning career , I found my biggest challenge in guiding 

 students to improve their critical thinking Skills . Understanding the speciﬁc demands of 

 the questions and drafting answers accordingly in other than native language is like a 

 walking on a thin rope . When the answers need a balanced approach , relevant eﬀective 

 arguments using appropriate vocabulary and concepts the task in real become boring 

 and tiring . Developing balanced thinking approach is diﬃcult for the students belongs to 

 non - english speaking students due to poor reading writing habits . Above all , the practice 

 of the exam centred education system encourages the students to memorise instead of 

 developing thinking skills . Student also face problem in aligning arguments eﬀectively due 

 to missing culture of focus on multidimensional studies . They face challenge in 

 deciphering supporting or counter arguments in accordance to the question ’s 

 requirement . Writing essays using subject speciﬁc vocabulary and concepts is non 

 existent in such an environment due to weak vocabulary . It a challenge for the teacher to 

 promote critical thinking skills which can prepare young mind for the VUCA   world .   1 

 Keeping all these challenges in mind , future generation need to be nurtured today in the 

 most eﬀective manner using diﬀerent techniques like visualisation , story telling , mind map 

 and learning launch . 

 Selection   Out of above mentioned four techniques , I found mind map approach more promising than to 

 others . Mind map technique allows students to get involve in the process of assimilation   of 

 multidimensional knowledge , helps to prepare a roadmap to present the concepts , ideas the 

 arguments in coherence . It categories the answer in accordance to the speciﬁc requirement of the 

 questions based on command terms like discuss and evaluate . It allow student to work in groups 

 and to promote their views in speciﬁc patterns . Excellent students can use visualisation , story 

 telling or learning launch but mind map is a ray of hope with below average and moderate 

 students . During testing of this technique , I found many student group applied the visualisations 

 techniques to mind map sheets and have been successful in presenting their ideas in appealing 

 manner . 

 VUCA stands for the volatility , uncertainty , complexity and ambiguity , a term ﬁrst used by Bennis   1 and Nanus in leadership theory in 1987 . 

 Application 

 Initially , I divides young learner in the groups consisting student with diﬀerentiated learning 

 capabilities which provides conducive environment of auditory , visual and kinaesthetic learners . 

 Student groups are challenged to work on the real - world issues . They are tasked to ﬁnd an 

 appropriate strategy or solution to the speciﬁc problems . Using mind map student are 

 encouraged to brainstorm the various argument . Groups are allowed to work speciﬁcally designed 

 mind map . I have notices the students were able to understand the speciﬁc requirement the 

 questions due the their practice on the speciﬁcally designed worksheet based on mind map 

 techniques . Increase in average score for the critically thinking question validate the importance of 

 practicing using mind map techniques . Some of the problems identiﬁed by the students for critical 

 thinking are like : Eﬀective method to provide food packets to the Cov19 houses in the society . 

 Eﬀective protective measure for taxi drivers and autorikshow drivers in Cov19 areas . 

 Insight 

 Mindmap technique helps the student cohorts to identify the real - world issues and allow them to 

 brainstorm the solutions . This technique makes discussion more focused easy to compile the 

 arguments eﬀectively . It also allow each member of the group to participate eﬀectively . I applied 

 this technique to student of secondary and senior secondary students and found encouraging 

 results in term of improvement in creative thinking . It improve the level of self motivation to 

 empathise the problems faced by the society . This technique helped to improve the level 

 coordination among the students which is very important to prepare the prototype and testing the 

 hypothesis regarding the product . 

 Approach 

 Mindmap techniques is very helpful in preparing blue print and in most collaborative manner . On 

 the other hand story telling and visualisation process can help improve the independent self 

 learning by making them more empathetic to the real world issues . I would like to use the 

 technique that could combine the visualisation and story telling in order to prepare student for 

 developed independent self learning .
### Output: 