Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison

John Wiley & Sons, May 3, 2011 - Education - 320 pages

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities

Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.  Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon.

• Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion
• Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas
• Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies

The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.

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If you haven’t read this, are you even teaching? Among the many, many books I’ve read on teaching and pedagogy (it’s kind of my job), rarely have I encountered a “must read” text like this one. While ...

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Contents

• FOUR Routines for Introducing and Exploring Ideas: 51
• Zoom In: 64
• ThinkPuzzleExplore: 71
• Chalk Talk: 78
• Compass Points: 93
• The Explanation Game: 101
• FIVE Routines for Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas: 109
• Color Symbol Image: 119
• Concept Maps: 125
• ConnectExtendChallenge: 132
• The 4Cs: 140
• The Micro Lab Protocol: 147
• Used to Think Now I Think: 154
• SIX Routines for Digging Deeper into Ideas: 163
• Circle of Viewpoints: 171
• Step Inside: 178
• Red Light Yellow Light: 185
• ClaimSupportQuestion: 191
• TugofWar: 199
• SentencePhraseWord: 207

About the author

Ron Ritchhart, Ed.D. is a senior researcher at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of Intellectual Character from Jossey-Bass.

Mark Church is the Learning, Assessment, and Instructional Resource Supervisor for the Traverse City Area Public Schools in Michigan.

Karin Morrison is director of The Development Centre at Independent Schools Victoria, Australia and instructor for the WIDE World online course, Making Thinking Visible, at Harvard.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners; Jossey-Bass teacher; Online access with purchase: ebrary; ebrarydelete - ebc excluded
• Authors: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 047091551X, 9780470915516
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Education / Decision-Making & Problem Solving; Education / Educational Psychology; Education / General; Education / Learning Styles