Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners Author: Ron Ritchhart | Language: English | ISBN:
B004V4FG46 | Format: EPUB
Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners Description
A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilitiesVisible 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.
- File Size: 1959 KB
- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (March 25, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004V4FG46
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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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