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

Author: Ron Ritchhart | Language: English | ISBN: 047091551X | Format: PDF

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

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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• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (May 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047091551X
• ISBN-13: 978-0470915516
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

List of Figures and Tables ix

DVD Contents xi

Foreword xiii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxi

About the Authors xxv

PART ONE Some Thinking About Thinking 1

ONE Unpacking Thinking 3

Beyond Bloom 6

Beyond Memorization, Work, and Activity 8

A Map of Thinking Involved in Understanding 11

Other Kinds of Thinking 14

Uncovering Students' Thinking About Thinking 15

TWO Putting Thinking at the Center of the Educational Enterprise 23

How Does Visibility Serve Both Learning and Teaching? 27

How Can We Make the Invisible Visible? 30

PART TWO Using Thinking Routines to Make Thinking Visible 41

THREE Introduction to Thinking Routines 43

ThreeWays of Looking at Thinking Routines 45

How Are the Thinking Routines Organized? 49

FOUR Routines for Introducing and Exploring Ideas 53

See-Think-Wonder 55

Zoom In 64

Think-Puzzle-Explore 71

Chalk Talk 78

3-2-1 Bridge 86

Compass Points 93

The Explanation Game 101

FIVE Routines for Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas 109

Headlines 111

CSI: Color, Symbol, Image 119

Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate: Concept Maps 125

Connect-Extend-Challenge 132

The 4C's 140

The Micro Lab Protocol 147

I Used to Think. . . , Now I Think . . . 154

SIX Routines for Digging Deeper into Ideas 163

What Makes You Say That? 165

Circle of Viewpoints 171

Step Inside 178

Red Light, Yellow Light 185

Claim-Support-Question 191

Tug-of-War 199

Sentence-Phrase-Word 207

PART THREE Bringing the Power of Visible Thinking to Life 215

SEVEN Creating a Place Where Thinking Is Valued, Visible, and Actively Promoted 217

Making Room for Reflection 222

Making Time for Our Own Learning 229

The Making of an Elaborated Conversation 234

The Forces That Shape Culture 240

EIGHT Notes from the Field 247

The Challenges of Making Thinking Visible in a Mathematics Class and Beyond: The Case of Mark Church 250

Content + Routines + Students = A Culture of Thinking: The Case of Sharonne Blum 256

What These Cases Reveal About the Use of Routines 261

Stages of Development in the Use of Thinking Routines 262

Common Pitfalls and Struggles 267

In Conclusion 272

References 275

Index 281

How to Use the DVD 293

In Making Thinking Visible, Ritchhart,Church and Morrison make a compelling case that eliciting the thinking of students is paramount to the best instructional practice and how it can be transformative in nature for educators at all levels. Moving beyond theory, the authors illustrate, very specifically, how opportunities for thinking can be cultivated via thinking routines.

It is very rare to find literature that proposes a fundamental change for instructional practice, but Making Thinking Visible does just that. All educators worth their salt will quickly see the value of the Visible Thinking framework for their students. Perhaps, even more importantly, they will rediscover the joyous dichotomy of being learner and teacher at the same time. Thinking will be the gold of the future. Making Thinking Visible allows all educators to start unearthing the nuggets.

By Adam Scher

A significant contribution to the literature on thinking. Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison put together groundbreaking theories connected to practice for engaging children in thinking and understanding in real classrooms . This is the book that I've been waiting for to help pre-service and in-service teachers (from all grade levels) to understand the complexity of thinking in a teacher friendly language. I use this book in my curriculum courses and highly recommend it to teachers. Many schools that I know are adopting this book as a summer reading requirement for teachers.

The authors' discussions are founded in research in classrooms with teachers from different places around the world which makes it reliable. The book provides resources for teachers to implement thinking strategies and cultivate cultures of thinking in their classrooms. After reading this book teachers don't need too much time or "training" to bring all these great ideas into practice. The book is an invitation for teachers to explore their role of teacher-researchers and lifelong learners.

I also recommend readers to get the DVD, it is really helpful since it provides videos that show how these ideas work in different classrooms involving teachers from all grade levels and disciplines including teacher study group strategies. I consider this book a "must" for any teacher and school interested in helping students develop 21st Century Skills.

By Angela Salmon

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