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

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

<b>A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities</b> <p>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.</p> <ul> <li>Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion</li> <li>Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas</li> <li>Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies</li> </ul> <p>The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.</p>