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 comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms. |
Contents
Beyond Memorization Work and Activity | 8 |
Other Kinds of Thinking | 14 |
TWO Putting Thinking at the Center of the Educational Enterprise | 23 |
How Can We Make the Invisible Visible? | 30 |
TWO PART Using Thinking Routines to Make Thinking Visible | 41 |
SeeThinkWonder | 55 |
ThinkPuzzleExplore | 71 |
Compass Points | 93 |
FIVE Routines for Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas | 109 |
Concept Maps | 125 |
The 4Cs | 140 |
Used to Think Now I Think | 154 |
Circle of Viewpoints | 171 |
Red Light Yellow Light | 185 |
TugofWar | 199 |
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