New frameworks for studying and assessing the development of. Project zero is excited to share new visible thinking tools that target specific capacities indispensable for success in our complex contemporary world. While the videos are no longer readily available, you can download a copy of the book in pdf format by clicking the images below. Visible thinking is a researchbased approach to teaching thinking, begun at harvard s project zero, that develops students thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Chances are you dont have too many thoughts about this particular phylum of invertebrates. Download product flyer is to download pdf in new tab. From the author over the last 12 years we have had the pleasure of working with schools, museums, and organizations all over the world. But it also goes beyond diagnosis to actively support good thinking in a number of ways. Circle of viewpoints helps students to identify and consider different and diverse perspectives. Visible thinking expresses a powerful view of knowledge. A routine to help teachers prepare for and reflect on making thinking visible here nowthere then. Visible thinking requires overt, conscious, and deliberate acts by both students and teachers.
As teachers strive to create cultures of thinking in their classrooms, they can use a variety of methods, including making time for thinking, developing and using a language of thinking, making the classroom environment rich with the documents of thinking processes, and making their own thinking visible, to name a few. Using thinking routines as a pedagogy for teaching english. Concept maps a routine for organizing ones understanding of a topic through concept mapping select a topic, concept, or issue for which you want to map your understanding. Making thinking visible david perkins harvard graduate school of education acknowledgment. Search results harvard graduate school of education. Generate a list of ideas and initial thoughts that come to. This guide offers strategies for making the most of student small group work, featuring specific activities used by a range of hks faculty and courses.
Some of the ideas and research reported here were developed with muchappreciated support from the stiftelsen carpe vitam foundation and the john d. The kids take more of an active role in class and they enjoy it. Teachers at bialik have told us that making thinking visible enables them to more accurately assess students understanding. Consider how often what we learn reflects what others are doing around us. As the popularity and use role it plays in learning, making the case that promoting. Senior lecturer on education at hgse and faculty director of the higher education masters program at hgse. Mark church is the learning, assessment, and instructional resource supervisor for the traverse city area public schools in michigan. While engaged in this thinking routine, students gain a greater awareness of how others are feeling and thinking. Visible thinking, an approach to teaching thinking developed by project zero, has two goals. Visible thinking harvard graduate school of education. This is especially important when praising and giving feedback. A proven program for enhancing students thinking and comprehension abilities. Karin morrison is director of the development centre at independent schools victoria, australia and instructor for the wide world online course, making thinking visible, at harvard.
Visible thinking is a flexible and systematic researchbased approach to. I also produced the visible thinking dvd that features teachers at the international school of amsterdam using a variety of thinking routines. Making thinking visible includes a dvd of instructive video clips featuring visible thinking strategies being applied in a variety of classrooms. Perkins narrative cv 09 10 22 harvard graduate school of. Thinking routines establishing patterns of thinking in the. Now used by educators around the world, visible thinking is designed to be used in all subjects, all grades, and in a range of educational settings. Preface in 2005, my colleagues at harvard project zero and i had just finished a. Use question starts to expand and deepen students thinking, to encourage students curiosity and increase their motivation to inquire. This course explores three themes at the heart of visible thinking. Pdf when learners speak, write, or draw their ideas, they deepen their. As teachers strive to create cultures of thinking in their classrooms, they can use a variety of methods, including making time for thinking, developing and using a language of thinking, making the classroom environment rich with the documents of thinking processes, and making their own thinking visible, to. A proven program for enhancing students thinking and comprehension abilities visible thinking is a researchbased approach to teaching thinking, begun at harvard s project zero, that develops students thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Data from schools using the approach reflect improved student learning. How to promote engagement, understanding, and independence.
Karin also serves as the instructor for the wide world online learning course, making thinking visible, developed at the harvard graduate school of education. A routine that sets the stage for deeper inquiry myst meyouspacetime. Mark church, coauthor of making thinking visible, demonstrates the use of the headlines thinking routine with his sixth grade students. At the core of visible thinking are practices that help make thinking visible. It also reinforces that people will think differently about a topic. The power of the routine lies in the discussion of why a particular word, a single phrase, and a sentence stood out for each individual in the group as the catalyst for rich discussion. Karin also serves as the instructor for the wide world online learning course, making thinking visible. The visible thinking project is organized around a set of thinking ideals that capture naturally occurring goals, strivings, or interests that often propel our thinking. A routine for considering presentist attitudes and judgments. V isible thinking, the focus of this book, may be described as clarity and transparency in ones cognitive processes. Computational thinking is a phrase that has received considerable attention over the past several years but there is little agreement about what computational thinking encompasses, and even less agreement about strategies for assessing the development of computational thinking in young people.
These routines, designed by researchers at project zero at harvard, scaffold and support ones thinking. Professional education harvard graduate school of education. New frameworks for studying and assessing the development. Teachers at bialik have told us that making thinking visible. Making thinking visible and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. The correct form for the bibliographic reference element of a citation for the selected resource is shown in a variety of the most widelyaccepted citation styles below. By providing a visible record of childrens thinking, it allows teachers to see what students are learning and where they need help. Mar 25, 2011 making thinking visible is a crucial read for teachers who are trying to help students with deep thinking and understanding. Options diamond exploring the tensions of decision making routine options explosion a routine for creative decision making. Making thinking visible by ron ritchhart overdrive rakuten.
Creativity routines creative hunt a routine for looking at parts, purposes and audiences creative questions a routine for generating and transforming questions. Visible thinking resource book this is a complete explanation of all of the thinking routines created by the harvard graduate school, includes the ones highlighted in the making thinking visible book as well as the additional ones from their website. Jul 07, 2011 mark church, coauthor of making thinking visible, demonstrates the use of the headlines thinking routine with his sixth grade students. Request permission to reuse content from this site. By applying these processes, thinking becomes visible as learners ideas are expressed, discussed, and reflected upon. Study group as described in the schoolwide culture of thinking section. Effective thinkers make their thinking visible, meaning they externalize their thoughts through speaking, writing, drawing, or some other method. Cultures of thinking project zero harvard university. What connections do you draw between the text and your own life or your other. What happens for students when they work with thinking routines over time.
The four bundles of thinking routines offered here were developed with the generous support of independent schools victoria of victoria state, australia, chief executive michelle green. Making thinking visible by ron ritchhart overdrive. Ron ritchhart is senior research associate at project zero, harvard graduate school of education, and coauthor of making thinking visible. Using thinking routines in the classroom learning is a consequence of thinking. Our four chosen thinking idealsunderstanding, truth, fairness, and creativitycover much of the breadth of what constitutes good thinking, though of course it would be. It is an approach to teaching and learning that emphasizes the use of thinking routines and documentation to make thinking more visible in classrooms. Using thinking routines as a pedagogy for teaching english as. Participants will explore relevant research, learn to integrate visible thinking into their curriculum and assessment, and try out practices with peers and in their own classrooms. This routine can be used when you are introducing a new topic to help students get a sense of the breadth of a topic. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students different viewpoints are. How to promote engagement, understanding and independence for all learners josseybass, 2011. Visible thinking tools project zero harvard university. Making thinking visible ron ritchhart and david perkins. Give back to hgse and support the next generation of passionate educators and innovative leaders.
Harvards global work is a dazzling kaleidoscope, the result of a simple strategy for engagement with the world. Australia and instructor for the wide world online course, making thinking visible, at harvard. The sentencephraseword thinking routine helps learners to engage with and make meaning from text with a particular focus on capturing the essence of the text or what speaks to you. In his book smart schools, our colleague david perkins 1992 makes a case for the importance of developing opportunities for thinking.
What exactly are thinking routines, and how do they differ from strategies or activities. How do teachers work with, make use of, and develop thinking routines over time. Ron ritchhart is currently a senior research associate at harvard project zero where his work focuses on such issues as teaching for understanding, the development of intellectual character, creative teaching, making students thinking visible, and most recently the development of school and classroom culture. It helps teachers guide students to make invisible thinking to visible. Making thinking visible framework by educators for educators the visible thinking framework was initiated by project zero of the harvard graduate school of education. Making thinking visible in the classroom provides students with vivid models of. But students in naomi arrows 5th grade class at bialik college in melbourne, australia, came up with many initial observations when naomi introduced a unit on the creatures, everything from i think theyre creepy to they are hairy and have many legs. High school students at bialik reported that thinking routines helped them structure their thinking before they began. Use the language of thinking to name and notice the thinking your child is using and thus make it more visible.
Now imagine learning to dance when the dancers around you are all invisible. And in an intriguing somersault of perspective taking, is there stuff that they stamp on, like we. When thinking is visible, participants are aware of their own thoughts. Mark is involved with various harvard university project zero cultures of thinking initiatives and is coauthor of the book making thinking visible. Pz is a research group at the harvard graduate school of education, since 1967 it has devoted itself to. This routine makes thinking visible by helping students to find the creative thinking behind ordinary things doorknobs, pencils, newspapers, toys. Options diamond exploring the tensions of decision making routine. Praise for making thinking visible there is a worldwide movement afoot to make the development of the intellect a.
I like how you have used what you already know to make connections. How to promote engagement, understanding, and independence for all learners. See below for information about citations and references, and how to use them. Daniel wilson is lecturer on education and director of project zero at hgse. We watch, we imitate, we adapt what we see to our own styles and interests, we build from there. Fostering thinking requires making thinking visible.
Authored books david perkins research on creativity resulted in his first book, the minds best work harvard university press, 1981, a wellreceived examination of the psychology of creativity. Thinking routines establishing patterns of thinking in the classroom 1. Making thinking visible how to promote engagement, understanding, and independence for all learners. Mclaughlin is faculty chair of the harvard seminar for new presidents and harvard seminar for presidential leadership. Harvard s global work is a dazzling kaleidoscope, the result of a simple strategy for engagement with the world. Thinking routines loosely guide learners thought processes and encourage active. Praise for making thinking visible there is a worldwide movement afoot to make the development of the intellect a priority for education in the twentyfirst century. It can also be applied to more important things and more abstract things, like forms of government or hospitals or schools. Understanding, and even memory, of content are enhanced greatly when learners think through and work mentally with the concepts and information they are. Making thinking visible how to ron ritchhart slideshare. Project zero is a community founded by nelson goodman in 1967 which studies and improves education in the arts.
Aug 04, 2014 karin also serves as the instructor for the wide world online learning course, making thinking visible, developed at the harvard graduate school of education. Toward this goal, tcaps invited project zero at the harvard graduate school of. Project zero offerings harvard graduate school of education. Karin was instrumental in developing the collaboration between project zero and bialik college that led to the creation of the cultures of thinking project at bialik. Useful thinking routines and protocols making learning visible. Visible thinking and the implications for instruction librarians.