Visual Thinking Presentation

VIsible THINKING

What do thinking and learning look like?

What is understanding and how does it develop?

How can we encourage our students to think deeply, flexibly and independently?

Visible Thinking can be defined as a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, the Visible Thinking research has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. The PZ researchers working on the first Visible Thinking initiative, including Dave Perkins, Shari Tishman, and Ron Ritchhart, developed a number of important products, but the one that is best known over two decades later is the set of practices called Thinking Routines, which help make thinking visible. Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes. They are short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students' thinking and become part of the fabric of everyday classroom life.

Harvard University Project Zero

Learning experiences and teaching strategies: Learning is about exploring ideas…exploring different points of view. Students develop their natural intellectual curiosity through deep understanding of concepts, motivation for learning, and development of abilities and attitudes towards thinking and learning.

Thinking Routines:Documentation of student thinkingReflection of professional practice

https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines

See,Think,Wonder...What do you see?What do you think about this?What does this make you wonder?

What do you see?What do you think about this?What does this make you wonder?

We define “Cultures of Thinking” (CoT) as places where a group’s collective as well as individual thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted as part of the regular.

Ron Ritchhart

How do we create a culture of thinking in our classrooms?

Metacognition: critical awareness of our own thinking.How might Thinking Routines support this awareness?

Metacognition and Thinking Routines

https://www.nordanglia.university/learn/course/2593/play/40564:1076/harvards-thinking-routines

Nord Anglia EducationThe metacognition project

I used to think...Now I think...