Visible Thinking

Visible Thinking is something that has been generating a lot of discussion and interest in educational circles.

The main objective is to provide a scaffold through visible thinking routines, to allow students thinking to become visible, cultivate students thinking skills and to deepen content learning. Schools all around the world are implementing a range of visible thinking routines from Harvard's Project Zero (developed by Harvard's Graduate School of Education)

Examples:

• Claim - Support - Question
• See - Think - Wonder or Think - Puzzle - Explore
• Colour - Symbol - Image
• I use to think/ I now think
• The 4 C's
• Tug of War
• PMI (Plus Minus Interesting)
• Brainstorm
• Venn Diagram
• What makes you say that
• Headlines
• Hands on Activities

Example or artifacts:

Teachers talking about their experience and implementing of visible thinking in their classroom