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The Power of Making Thinking Visible
Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners
"The authors offer a powerful vision of learning wedded to a clear and actionable framework. But, best of all, they bring the nuts and bolts of teaching to life with dozens of pictures of practices drawn from teachers and learners around the world." —David Perkins, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education "It is a rare thing to find a book so beautifully accessible to the classroom teacher while simultaneously engaging the reader in discussions of the theoretical and research basis behind the practice. I can’t wait to share this powerful resource with teachers - it is a must have in the professional library of the contemporary educator." —Kath Murdoch, International Education Consultant, Author of The Power of Inquiry. "In The Power of Making Thinking Visible, Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church illuminate how teachers can deepen learning by igniting student curiosity and engagement. It is a must read for educators across every grade level and subject area. The helpful advice and research-tested practices shared in this book truly have the power to transform schools and classrooms." —Madeleine Hewitt, Executive Director, Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools "Ritchhart and Church's energizing new volume strengthens the case for the idea that thinking is the engine of learning. Teachers and leaders alike will appreciate the book's winning combination of readability, utility, and provocation." —Sarah Fine, Director, Teaching Apprenticeship Program, High Tech High Graduate School of Education, coauthor of In Search of Deeper Learning: The Question to Remake the American High School "Do you want to teach with an understanding of the research, and heaps of tools you can put to work from the first page-turn? The Power of Making Thinking Visible is just that. Simplicity without simplification." —Ewan McIntosh, founder of NoTosh and government advisor
"Building on decades of research at Harvard Project Zero, Ritchhart and Church illuminate what engaged, deeper learning can look like, while offering an invaluable set of practices to help educators get there." —Jal Mehta, Professor Harvard Graduate School of Education, Co-Author of In Search of Deeper Learning
Ron Ritchhart (Author), Mark Church (Author)
9781119626046, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 1 June 2020
272 pages
23.1 x 18.8 x 2 cm, 0.408 kg
The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies Visible Thinking—a research-based approach developed at Harvard’s Project Zero – prompts and promotes students’ thinking. This approach has been shown to positively impact student engagement, learning, and development as thinkers. Visible Thinking involves using thinking routines, documentation, and effective questioning and listening techniques to enhance learning and collaboration in any learning environment. The Power of Making Thinking Visible explains how educators can effectively use thinking routines and other tools to engage and empower students as learners and transform classrooms into places of deep learning. Building on the success of the bestselling Making Thinking Visible, this highly-anticipated new book expands the work of the original by providing 18 new thinking routines based on new research and work with teachers and students around the world. Original content explains how to use thinking routines to maximum effect in the classroom, engage students exploration of big ideas, link thinking routines to formative assessment, and more. Providing new research, new global case studies, and new practices, this book: Written by researchers from Harvard’s Project Zero, The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Using Routines to Engage and Empower Learners is an indispensable resource for K-12 educators and curriculum designers, higher education instructional designers and educators, and professional learning course developers.
List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi About the Authors xv Introduction xvii Part One Laying the Foundation for Power 1 One Six Powers of Making Thinking Visible 3 Fostering Deep Learning 6 Cultivating Engaged Students 7 Changing the Role of the Student and Teacher 9 Enhancing Our Formative Assessment Practice 11 Improving Learning (Even When Measured by Standardized Tests) 13 Developing Thinking Dispositions 17 Conclusion 19 Two Making Thinking Visible: A Goal and Set of Practices 21 Making Thinking Visible as a Goal of Teaching 23 Making Thinking Visible as a Set of Practices 24 Organizing Thinking Routines 33 Part Two Eighteen Powerful Routines 37 Three Routines for Engaging with Others 39 Give One Get One 42 Ladder of Feedback 50 The Leaderless Discussion 59 SAIL: Share-Ask-Ideas-Learned 67 Making Meaning 76 +1 Routine 86 Four Routines for Engaging with Ideas 95 Question Sorts 98 Peeling the Fruit 107 The Story Routine: Main-Side-Hidden 117 Beauty & Truth 124 NDA 132 Take Note 140 Five Routines for Engaging in Action 147 PG&E: Predict–Gather–Explain 150 ESP+I 158 Be-Sure-To 166 What? So What? Now What? 174 The 3 Y’s 182 The 4 If ’s 190 Part Three Realizing the Power 199 Six Using Thinking Routines for Maximum Effect 201 Planning for Thinking 204 Being Primed for Thinking 211 Pressing for Thinking 215 Positioning for Thinking 219 Seven Learning to Support One Another as We Make Thinking Visible 223 Beyond the Toolset: Developing Our Skills at Using the Tools 226 Beyond the Skill Set: The Mindsets That Motivate Action 231 Supports for Developing Skill Sets and Mindsets 233 In Conclusion 239 References 241 Index 245
Subject Areas: Education [JN]
