The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners

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: Focuses on the power that thinking routines can bring to learning Provides practical insights on using thinking routines to facilitate student engagement Highlights the most effective techniques for using thinking routines in the classroom Identifies the skillsets and mindsets needed to truly make thinking visible Features actionable classroom strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas 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.

Table of Contents:
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 

About the Author :
RON RITCHHART is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero and Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His current research focuses on developing intellectual character, making thinking visible, and promoting deep learning. MARK CHURCH has been an educator for over twenty years and has particular interest in helping teachers and school leaders think deeply about their efforts to cultivate thinking and learning opportunities for students. Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church (with Karin Morrison) are the coauthors of Making Thinking Visible.