Students» critical thinking as supported by the utilization of both essential questions and
visible thinking routines creates a more robust model for digital portfolios.
The Generate - Sort - Connect - Elaborate: Concept
Maps visible thinking routine is a routine for organizing one's understanding of a topic through concept mapping.
Just recently, the Journal of Educational Research and Practice at Walden University published a study of the implementation of
Visible Thinking routines in ESL classrooms in Palestine.
«For decades, IB schools have been invaluable research partners with Project Zero — serving as important collaborators in the development
of visible thinking routines, global competency frameworks, and teaching for understanding practices,» said Daniel Wilson, director of Project Zero.
Collectively we engaged in dialogue about the Agency by Design framework through
a visible thinking routine called Chalk Talk.
This visible thinking routine stems from the well - known classroom routine KWL (Know — Want to know — Learned).
Every month I will highlight
a visible thinking routine from Making Thinking Visible and how I have used it with my classes.
Much of Harvard University's
Visible Thinking Routines are good ideas.
We also incorporated one of
the visible thinking routine's that we are concentrating on this unit.