Making Thinking Visible Routines

Fostering Deep Learning

• Collaboration, communication, directing one’s own learning, motivational learner

• When does Deep Learning happen?

  • Develop understanding and as a learner

  • Connect to material

  • Produce something meaningful

• Core Elements

  • Critical thinking

  • Grappling with complexity

  • Challenging assumptions

  • Questioning authority

  • Embracing curiosity

Cultivate Engaged Students

• Develop a routine of engagement that students have a real desire to take action

• Give the students space to make their thinking visible

• I can be curious and observe how students learn

Change the Role of Students and Teachers

• Empower your students

• Children develop a voice for learning

Enhance our Formative Assessment Practice

• Understanding how our students learn so we can plan for the next step

• Looking for growth over time with Making Thinking Visible Routines

Improve Learning

• When students are more cognitively engaged, scores go up

  • How did this change students’ engagement

  • Are students building understanding?

  • How did this routine facilitate their exploration of the topic

  • Did  students go deeper than with a more traditional approach I have used?

Develop Thinking Dispositions

• Build up moves - scaffolded

• Students value their peers and their own thinking, plus they know the teacher values their input

• Take the lead and make choices