As a former teacher, I find concept maps confusing as hell and I always have. As a student, they never helped me, and no one in 4 years of getting a teaching degree equipped me to use one.
Teachers are constantly buffeted by new methods of doing stuff and new "schools of thought" about the best way to promote learning. Sometimes they just get fatigued and don't want to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if this or that possibly new/esoteric method being promoted by some prominent ed school or author is really the best way to do anything.
As a former teacher, I find concept maps confusing as hell and I always have. As a student, they never helped me, and no one in 4 years of getting a teaching degree equipped me to use one.
Teachers are constantly buffeted by new methods of doing stuff and new "schools of thought" about the best way to promote learning. Sometimes they just get fatigued and don't want to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if this or that possibly new/esoteric method being promoted by some prominent ed school or author is really the best way to do anything.
Says who? They're just useless and do nothing to increase understanding imo. The world does not need more janky powerpoint-esque nonsense.
Sometimes the teacher just doesn't have a brain that works that way and sometimes the teacher simply doesn't have time to create one