Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass Teacher)

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Includes questions, exercises, and discussion prompts to inspire reflection by individuals and teams A haibun is a form of Japanese poetry that combines imagery in prose and a haiku poem. Traditionally, it was written while traveling to record personal experiences. Then, ask students to imagine they traveled to the place in the painting and record what they saw, heard, tasted, smelled and felt as if they really went there. by the way educators use routines during a unit of study, similar to the arrangement used by Ritchhart, Church and Morrison (2011) ( Introducing and Exploring Ideas, Digging Deeper into Ideas, Synthesizing Ideas),

Using VTM is more than just a strategy; it provides a structure for making meaning and gives participants – young or old – a chance to participate and discuss ideas with each other. Thinking routines are intended for repeated use, which enables participants to remember them and use them independently in no time at all This activity can be done orally with the whole class or by asking students to individually, or in pairs, complete an organizer and then share. When students answer What Makes You Say That ? they are practicing the art of summarizing and providing pertinent details they see in the art. This activity is great for demonstrating sequencing and summarization. It comprises a series of tableaux staged to show a series of events or related ideas.Simple routines that are applicable across disciplines, topics, and age groups, and can be used at multiple points throughout a learning experience or unit of study. (A good place to start if you or your students are new to thinking routines.) This approach includes a number of key ways of making thinking – and opportunities for thinking – much more visible in classrooms and other learning environments. By making thinking visible to yourself, to your peers and to those around you, opportunities for learning expand. For example, teachers can establish exactly what understanding already exists on a specific topic. Teachers can then link new information to prior knowledge, which activates student engagement and curiosity. This “visible” element can provide a springboard to further discussion and lines of inquiry too. Key Elements Option: Post the 60-second sketches alongside the original artwork. Provide students an additional opportunity to do a gallery walk and discuss or compare/contrast the sketches. by a small set of “ Core Routines” that target different types of thinking, are easy to get started with, and are commonly used by teachers in many disciplines and with learners of many ages, A selection of different thinking routines can be used throughout a programme to target different areas of thinking and keep the programme lively.

There are some great online concept mapping tools. I’ve been using CMAP Tools for well over a decade, when I first learned about concept mapping through studying DH Johnassen’s notion of technology as mindtools. However, this program can be a little wonky and it looks pretty outdated. In some cases, students will want to sketch out their concept maps in a sketch-note style. But whatever the tool, the goal is for students to make sense out of their learning by showing the connections between ideas. It almost functions as a snapshot of the synaptic connections in their minds. Ask students to use the Artful Thinking routine: “ I See, I Think, I Wonder ” as they contemplate the artwork. They should write what the art says to them: they can describe items, feelings, ideas, connections, themes, mood or any art elements they see when looking at the painting. You may direct their thinking or leave it completely open. 3. Instruct students in each group to lay all the sentence strips from the group on a table or on the floor. Next, ask students to contemplate Ruscha’s painting entitled “Won’t”. Begin by looking at the artistic qualities of the work (you could use an Artful Thinking routine, such as such as Colors, Shapes, Lines to facilitate this) and then analyze the multiple meanings and impact of the actual word. The key idea is to use visuals to provoke learning, wrestle new ideas, and spark students curiosity. In inquiry-based learning, these routines work well in the first stage: Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based conceptual framework, which aims to integrate the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing.

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It seems like we are in the throes of curriculum reforms designed to transform education. However, these efforts generally neglect the vital role classroom and school culture play in promoting learning. Any curriculum, good or bad, will sink or float on the culture of the classroom in which it is enacted. Culture matters not only to realize curricular goals, but also as a shaper of students’ development as powerful thinkers and learners. Ekphrasis is a way to vividly offer a verbal description of a piece of visual art. It can be either real or imagined and often appears as a form of poetry. Here are 3 more ideas for making thinking visible through Ekphrasis. Poems for Two Voices How do I ensure that the tasks I assign students remotely are worthwhile and will actually produce learning versus just keep them busy? As an example, look at artwork by Ed Ruscha. This is an artist who experimented with words as part of the art form. Many of Ruscha’s pieces depict single words as the center or the focal point of the work.

Research shows that with repetition, there will be a transference of this skill to reading. You will find that the students will begin to ask What Makes you Say That ? when reading or when answering other classroom questions. Actionable student activities, grouped for different phases of learning: introduction, processing, and digging deeper into content.You will be amazed at how even your quietest students will respond automatically and freely to the art. What do you think is going on or might be happening in this picture? What do you see in the painting that makes you say that ?

The key point is that any strategy should be memorable enough for you to easily recall where you are in the discussion. Making thinking visible isn’t difficult with the help of these 13 strategies. And helping our students observe critically, express joyfully, and reflect deeply is one of our most important responsibilities. by the way educators use routines for conceptual exploration ( Possibilities and Analogies, Perspective Taking, & Perspectives, Controversies and Dilemmas). Visible Thinking has been developed over a number of years by researchers from Harvard’s Project Zerowith teachers and students. Visible Thinking is essentially a ‘ broad and flexible framework for enriching learning’ by fostering deep thinking and a better understanding of content. Central Idea

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by asking critical thinking questions (i.e. Artful Thinking Routines) that explore reasoning, explanation or math habits of mind.