Making Thinking Visible

How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

• Author(s): Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 320
• ISBN_10: 047091551X
  ISBN_13: 9780470915516
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Educational Psychology , Education / Decision-Making & Problem Solving , Education / Learning Styles , Education / General ,

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.