Making Thinking Visible : How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners - Ron Ritchhart

Making Thinking Visible

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

By: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison, David Perkins (Foreword by)

Paperback | 6 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.