What is Visible Thinking?

Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.

Who is it for?
Visible Thinking is for teachers, school leaders and administrators in schools who want to encourage the development of a culture of thinking in their classrooms and schools.

Key Features and Practices

At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. They are short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students' thinking and become part of the fabric of everyday classroom life.

Visible thinking goals:

- Development of learners' thinking and learning abilities.
-To cultivate students' thinking skills and thinking dispositions ( curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset) - Development of learners' attitudes toward thinking and learning and their alertness to opportunities for thinking and learning (the "dispositional" side of thinking).

How does it work in the classroom?

At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing.

Ways to make thinking visible. -One of the simplest is for teachers to use the
language of thinking. English and all other natural languages have a rich vocabulary of thinking consider terms like hypothesis, reason, evidence, possibility, imagination.

-Another way to make thinking visible is to surface the many opportunities for thinking during subject matter learning. Thinking routines are helpful tools in this process.

Thinking routines

A routine can be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the accomplishment of specific goals or tasks. Routines exist in all classrooms; they are the patterns by which we operate and go about the job of learning and working together in a classroom environment.

Thinking routines

What makes these routines work to promote the development of a students thinking and the classroom culture are that each routine: -Is goal oriented in that it targets specific types of thinking -Gets used over and over again in the classroom -Consists of only a few steps -Is easy to learn and teach -Is easy to support when students are engaged in the routine -Can be used across a variety of context

By
Grecia Karina Snchez Flores Brenda Lisseth Meja Moreno