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

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

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