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PK & K Visible Thinking Resources_August 13, 2019

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ALL RESOURCES FROM THE MAKING THINKING VISIBLE SUMMER INSTITUTE (ignore the flipgrid image below)

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Visible Thinking Routines in An Infused Classroom

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Thinking Routine Toolbox

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PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero

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The Toolbox organizes the Thinking Routines into categories that describe the types of thinking the routines help to facilitate. Some routines appear in more than one category, and some routines have different versions that offer modifications for specific age groups or more specific conceptual challenges.

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The "At Home with PZ" toolbox was developed to help you answer that question. The activities you'll find here provide ways to adapt Project Zero strategies and frameworks for use in different settings: for virtual classrooms and for home learning; guided by a teacher working remotely or by a parent or caregiver in person.

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Visible Thinking & Teaching for Understanding in a Distance Learning Environment 

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In this time of remote learning, it is important that we take a moment - no matter what our comfort level with remote teaching - to find a way to stay connected with our students and to truly understand where they are in the learning process Even remote learning can be student-centered.

To do this we need to find a way to hear form our students. They can do this easily using a parent's phone and apps like Seesaw and Flipgrid.

Better Understand Our Remote Learners with Visible Thinking Routines

In their book, Making Thinking Visible, authors Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison describe these thinking routines, many of which classrooms use to uncover the root of the thinking process. These routines can help students tell us more about what they are doing and learning at home and how they are progressing. Having students tell us about their learning is important because, during these unique times, we need to know more about their thoughts and ideas - as well as provide an opportunity to connect as close to face to face as possible and some apps allow teachers to do this easily and with only the need of a smartphone.
Free Flipgrid One-Hour Course: infused.link/online
We know students will be doing work at home, reading books at home, practicing math at home. No matter if you have sent home packets or are continuing the learning on Microsoft Teams or Google Classroom, we need to hear from them. This is the perfect time to employ thinking routines to get at what they are actually learning and where they are in the process.

How Can We Make Visible Thinking More Effective?

We can have students reveal their insights by offering the use of apps that allow them to articulate and record their learning experiences, ideas, and thinking. This is especially important because at the foundation of all good, cognitive learning
The chart is broken up into three sections: the routine itself, when to use it, and what tool can be used to make learning visible.
Thinking routines remind us that learning is not a product, but a process of understanding. During that process, we should encourage our students to verbalize and explain what they're learning, as well as what is and isn't working, what struggles they're facing, what comes easily, and whether they believe they've reached the learning target.

To find out more about how to become a more effective Remote Teacher Check out The Google Infused Classroom and The Microsoft Infused Classroom.

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Visible Thinking Routines for #RemoteLearning - The Infused Classroom

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In this time of remote learning, it is important that we take a moment -no matter what our comfort level with remote teaching - to find a way to stay connected with our students and to truly understand where they are in the learning process Even remote learning can be student-centered.

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Making thinking apparently visible in the classroom is incredibly important if you want to be able to determine if your students are learning (and that should be something you want). Ron Ritchhart thankfully has our back with his book, "Making Thinking Visible". This book has a TON of different strategies in order to better make the learning that your students are doing more visible to you.

Why are MTV strategies critical?

I can almost hear you asking yourself this question. If the introduction paragraph didn't already convince you that visible thinking is important through me telling you it is, then allow me delve deeper into the topic.

Visible thinking is really the only way that you, as a teacher, will be able to really gauge whether or not the students are on the right path with their learning and if they need any readjustments in their thoughts. Sure, tests and the like can gauge if the student is able to regurgitate the information that you want them to, but by Making Thinking Visible, you are able to really dive into the minds of your students and determine if you are doing your job effectively or not.

Here is a video that goes more into what Visible Thinking is, and three different strategies to make thinking visible

Making Thinking Visible Strategies

Strategy 1: Chalk Talk

This strategy is especially useful when proposing an idea or topic that is especially controversial, such as climate change. It allows for students to anonymously go around the room and comment on other people's ideas and thoughts in a manner that gets students up, moving, and thinking.

Use in the Classroom

I would use this strategy if I were to introduce the topic of GMOs to my students. They would be able to get up and move around, commenting and discussing on large post-it notes that would be scattered around the room. Once everyone had commented at least once on each post-it, we would convene and discuss what had been written. This would allow for students who might not be willing or able to speak up during other discussions to have a voice without actually speaking.

Strategy 2: Compass Points

This strategy is somewhat similar to Chalk Talk, but it revolves more around making a decision versus debating a topic. The decision to be made is posted on the board, and the compass points N, S, E, and W are posted on the walls. Students then write what they Need to know, their Stances/Steps/Suggestions for the decision, what Excites them about the decision (i.e what are the benefits), and what are their Worries about the decision (i. e what are the downsides).

Use in the Classroom

I would use this strategy to go outside the margins and talk about an ethical decision that is often debated: whether or not animal testing is a necessary evil. Students would then be able to go around the room and write down their answers for each of the compass points, then we could come together and debate/discuss the different points. Needs that the students have could then be put together into a sort of research project that the students could participate in to get more knowledgeable about the topic.

Strategy 3: Tug of War

This strategy is great for getting your students to understand both sides of an argument, which is useful when making big decisions. It will also help your students understand the thought processes that go into believing in things that the scientific community often shun. Students draw a line on a piece of paper, and write For and Against on either ends of the line. Students then go through and write arguments that could be posed for either side, and they rate them on how much of a "tug" they give, in other words how strong the argument is.

Use in the Classroom

I would use this in order to propose a controversial topic, much like Chalk Talk. I would propose a topic, such as GMO use, and ask students to write the different arguments that they have heard or said for the For and Against side of the argument, rating the statements as they go along. Then, we would come back as a class and discuss the different arguments and why they gave them that strength. This is incredibly useful to eliminate bias and misinformation.

Making Thinking Visible strategies are incredibly useful to gauge where your students are with their thought processes and helps you as a teacher do your job to the best of your ability! @AnnMacKenzie @RonRitchhart #studentengagement #culturesofthinking #growthmindset

- Mr. Thomas (@BryceSBThomas) November 28, 2018

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And At Last I See The Thinking: Making Thinking Visible

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Making thinking apparently visible in the classroom is incredibly important if you want to be able to determine if your students are learning (and that should be something you want). Ron Ritchhart thankfully has our back with his book, "Making Thinking Visible".