USE THINKING ROUTINES! 

• 1. Thinking routines are designed to support particular kinds of thinking, so it’s important to choose the right tool for the specific type of thinking skill to be developed or nurtured.

  2. Thinking routines are also designed to be used routinely. In the same way that physical exercises need to be repeated in order to develop certain muscles, thinking routines, used repeatedly, help students to develop certain kinds of thinking. Rather than using a different thinking routine with every artifact, consider using the same thinking routine (such as See, Think, Wonder) with multiple artifacts.

  3. As you use the thinking routines, consider how you (or the students) will document students’ ideas and questions. Try to return to these ideas and questions at the end of the learning experience and in subsequent class sessions, so that you and the students can see how their thinking and understanding are developing.

Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based conceptual framework, which aims to integrate the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.  Explore these resources to learn more!

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1. Thinking Routines (Video)

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2. Making Thinking Visible (Article)

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3. Thinking Connections: Learning to Think and Thinking to Learn

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4. Learning that Matters

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5. Why Teach Habits of Mind

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6. Schools Need to Pay More Attention to "Intelligence in the Wild"

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7. Visible Thinking (Article)

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8. Making Thinking Visible (Article)

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9. The Thinking Classroom: Learning and Teaching in a Culture of Thinking