Power of Making Thinking Visible - Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners

The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies
 
Visible Thinking--a research-based approach developed at Harvard's Project Zero - prompts and promotes students' thinking. This approach has been shown to positively impact student engagement, learning, and development as thinkers. Visible Thinking involves using thinking routines, documentation, and effective questioning and listening techniques to enhance learning and collaboration in any learning environment. The Power of Making Thinking Visible explains how educators can effectively use thinking routines and other tools to engage and empower students as learners and transform classrooms into places of deep learning.
 
Building on the success of the bestselling Making Thinking Visible, this highly-anticipated new book expands the work of the original by providing 18 new thinking routines based on new research and work with teachers and students around the world. Original content explains how to use thinking routines to maximum effect in the classroom, engage students exploration of big ideas, link thinking routines to formative assessment, and more. Providing new research, new global case studies, and new practices, this book:
* Focuses on the power that thinking routines can bring to learning
* Provides practical insights on using thinking routines to facilitate student engagement
* Highlights the most effective techniques for using thinking routines in the classroom
* Identifies the skillsets and mindsets needed to truly make thinking visible
* Features actionable classroom strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas
 
Written by researchers from Harvard's Project Zero, The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Using Routines to Engage and Empower Learners is an indispensable resource for K-12 educators and curriculum designers, higher education instructional designers and educators, and professional learning course developers.

List of contents

List of Figures ix
 
Acknowledgments xi
 
About the Authors xv
 
Introduction xvii
 
Part One Laying the Foundation for Power 1
 
One Six Powers of Making Thinking Visible 3
 
Fostering Deep Learning 6
 
Cultivating Engaged Students 7
 
Changing the Role of the Student and Teacher 9
 
Enhancing Our Formative Assessment Practice 11
 
Improving Learning (Even When Measured by Standardized Tests) 13
 
Developing Thinking Dispositions 17
 
Conclusion 19
 
Two Making Thinking Visible: A Goal and Set of Practices 21
 
Making Thinking Visible as a Goal of Teaching 23
 
Making Thinking Visible as a Set of Practices 24
 
Organizing Thinking Routines 33
 
Part Two Eighteen Powerful Routines 37
 
Three Routines for Engaging with Others 39
 
Give One Get One 42
 
Ladder of Feedback 50
 
The Leaderless Discussion 59
 
SAIL: Share-Ask-Ideas-Learned 67
 
Making Meaning 76
 
+1 Routine 86
 
Four Routines for Engaging with Ideas 95
 
Question Sorts 98
 
Peeling the Fruit 107
 
The Story Routine: Main-Side-Hidden 117
 
Beauty & Truth 124
 
NDA 132
 
Take Note 140
 
Five Routines for Engaging in Action 147
 
PG&E: Predict-Gather-Explain 150
 
ESP+I 158
 
Be-Sure-To 166
 
What? So What? Now What? 174
 
The 3 Y's 182
 
The 4 If 's 190
 
Part Three Realizing the Power 199
 
Six Using Thinking Routines for Maximum Effect 201
 
Planning for Thinking 204
 
Being Primed for Thinking 211
 
Pressing for Thinking 215
 
Positioning for Thinking 219
 
Seven Learning to Support One Another as We Make Thinking Visible 223
 
Beyond the Toolset: Developing Our Skills at Using the Tools 226
 
Beyond the Skill Set: The Mindsets That Motivate Action 231
 
Supports for Developing Skill Sets and Mindsets 233
 
In Conclusion 239
 
References 241
 
Index 245

About the author

RON RITCHHART is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero and Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His current research focuses on developing intellectual character, making thinking visible, and promoting deep learning. MARK CHURCH has been an educator for over twenty years and has particular interest in helping teachers and school leaders think deeply about their efforts to cultivate thinking and learning opportunities for students. Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church (with Karin Morrison) are the coauthors of Making Thinking Visible.

Summary

The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies

Visible Thinking--a research-based approach developed at Harvard's Project Zero - prompts and promotes students' thinking. This approach has been shown to positively impact student engagement, learning, and development as thinkers. Visible Thinking involves using thinking routines, documentation, and effective questioning and listening techniques to enhance learning and collaboration in any learning environment. The Power of Making Thinking Visible explains how educators can effectively use thinking routines and other tools to engage and empower students as learners and transform classrooms into places of deep learning.

Building on the success of the bestselling Making Thinking Visible, this highly-anticipated new book expands the work of the original by providing 18 new thinking routines based on new research and work with teachers and students around the world. Original content explains how to use thinking routines to maximum effect in the classroom, engage students exploration of big ideas, link thinking routines to formative assessment, and more. Providing new research, new global case studies, and new practices, this book:
* Focuses on the power that thinking routines can bring to learning
* Provides practical insights on using thinking routines to facilitate student engagement
* Highlights the most effective techniques for using thinking routines in the classroom
* Identifies the skillsets and mindsets needed to truly make thinking visible
* Features actionable classroom strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas

Written by researchers from Harvard's Project Zero, The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Using Routines to Engage and Empower Learners is an indispensable resource for K-12 educators and curriculum designers, higher education instructional designers and educators, and professional learning course developers.

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"The authors offer a powerful vision of learning wedded to a clear and actionable framework. But, best of all, they bring the nuts and bolts of teaching to life with dozens of pictures of practices drawn from teachers and learners around the world." --David Perkins, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education
 
"It is a rare thing to find a book so beautifully accessible to the classroom teacher while simultaneously engaging the reader in discussions of the theoretical and research basis behind the practice. I can't wait to share this powerful resource with teachers - it is a must have in the professional library of the contemporary educator." --Kath Murdoch, International Education Consultant, Author of The Power of Inquiry.
 
"In The Power of Making Thinking Visible, Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church illuminate how teachers can deepen learning by igniting student curiosity and engagement. It is a must read for educators across every grade level and subject area. The helpful advice and research-tested practices shared in this book truly have the power to transform schools and classrooms." --Madeleine Hewitt, Executive Director, Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools
 
"Building on decades of research at Harvard Project Zero, Ritchhart and Church illuminate what engaged, deeper learning can look like, while offering an invaluable set of practices to help educators get there." --Jal Mehta, Professor Harvard Graduate School of Education, Co-Author of In Search of Deeper Learning
 
"Ritchhart and Church's energizing new volume strengthens the case for the idea that thinking is the engine of learning. Teachers and leaders alike will appreciate the book's winning combination of readability, utility, and provocation." --Sarah Fine, Director, Teaching Apprenticeship Program, High Tech High Graduate School of Education, coauthor of In Search of Deeper Learning: The Question to Remake the American High School
 
"Do you want to teach with an understanding of the research, and heaps of tools you can put to work from the first page-turn? The Power of Making Thinking Visible is just that. Simplicity without simplification." --Ewan McIntosh, founder of NoTosh and government advisor

Product details

• Authors: Mark Church, Church Mark, Ro Ritchhart, Ron Ritchhart, Ron Church Ritchhart, Ritchhart Ron
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781119626046
• ISBN: 978-1-119-62604-6
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, Bildungswesen, K-12 General, Allg. Bildungswesen (K-12)