Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All LearnersA 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.
The book also directs readers to online videos that demonstrate how Visible Thinking works in real classrooms. |
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 |
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 |
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activity Alan Bliss ask students asked her students Assessment begin Bialik College big ideas Caitlin capture Chalk Talk challenge claims classroom Compass Points complex concept map Connect-Extend-Challenge connections conversation create culture of thinking Dara develop discussion documentation engaged Erica experience Explanation Game explore feel focus grade headline help students identify important individual initial interactions interpretations issue Julius Lester Karrie Kill a Mockingbird kinds of thinking learning Lisa listening mathematics metacognitive metaphors Micro Lab notice ongoing opportunity painting perspectives Picture of Practice Project Zero prompt puzzles questions reading reasons red lights reflection responses rich Ritchhart Santorini See-Think-Wonder Selecting Appropriate Content Share the thinking Sharonne small groups Step Inside sticky notes story structure teachers teaching themes things thinking moves thinking routines thinking visible thoughts topic Traverse City Tug-of-War understanding viewpoints WMYST wonder write yellow lights