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

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Hand out different copies of outdoor landscape paintings by famous artists to inspire student poetry. What makes Cooperative Poetry a great strategy is that it can be used in any content area, at any level and in any language!

Students might also create an infographic, where they visualize facts and data to tell a compelling story. Some students will prefer a sketch-note style while others will prefer to create their own infographics using online infographic programs. In a language arts or digital media class, students can make sense out of sequential information using a storyboard instead.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, Project Zero’s broader work on 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 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. As they evaluate their ideas, they can use the compass points from Making Thinking Visible, which can easily work well in a graphic organizer. The compass points stand for the following:

Sketch to Write is perhaps the most literal strategy for making thinking visible. In this activity, we’re not focused on the quality of the sketch itself. It’s more about showing what students are thinking or learning. 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. Students might be asked to make interpretations and inferences with “I See/Hear, I Think, I Wonder”, provide evidence and reasoning with “Claim, Support, Question”, or explore viewpoints with “Perceive, Know, Care About”, to name a few. 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.After reading a story, each group would identify a series of 3-5 events to retell or summarize the story. In their groups, the students collaborate to determine which big ideas or events they want to communicate and then develop a tableau for each one. All of the tableaux presents itself in a sequence to the rest of the class in a slide show format. I've spent the last four years volunteering as a curriculum coordinator for a hybrid (online/in person) learning program (well before Covid). The director and teachers could see a lot of gaps in their pre-existing curriculum, so they asked for my assistance in finding better options.