Making Thinking Visible Presentation for L A H C

By: Ana Maria Fernandez Colegio Gran Bretana Founder Making Thinking Visible www.educationfirstinc.com

Through Lines:
What is MTV and what is it’s importance?
How can I connect this to something I already Know and do?
What are Thinking Routines all about?
How can we make thinking more visible in our classrooms so that children can see their own thinking?

SEE / THINK / WONDER WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT Play time: Thinking routines in action

I see / I Think / I wonder
Careful observations
Thoughtful interpretations
Stimulates curiosity
Set stage for inquire
What makes you say that?
Reason with evidence
Build explanations
Helps to see multiple perspectives
Thinking goals & Benefits

Thinking Moves - Goals Describe what’s there Wonder Thinking Goals Make connections Consider Differ Consider Different viewpoints Uncover complexity Form conclusions Reason with evidence Built explanations

Deeper understanding of content
Greater motivation for learning
Development of learners' thinking and learning abilities.
Development of learners' attitudes toward thinking and learning and their alertness to opportunities for thinking and learning (the "dispositional" side of thinking).
A shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners.
Visible Thinking Benefits

Visible Thinking - Applied in the Curriculum Documenta tion Routines Visible Thinking Language of Thinking Concept Maps

Routines
Housekeeping: Rules for working together as a group. Location for bags, raise hand, moves in class…
Management: Prepare students for learning episode. Forming groups, turn off light, sand clock…
Discourse: Orchestrate conversations. Raise one’s hand before speaking, conversation protocols…
Learning: Focus student’s attention on an specific topic. Note taking, reviewing and discussing homework…
Thinking: Direct and guide mental actions not behaviors. Support mental effort.

Connect/Extend/challenge Headline Routine Play time: Thinking routines in action

Connect/Extend/Challenge
Connect ideas to prior knowledge
Encourages inquiry
Help reflect on own learning
Headlines Routine
Captures the essence
Sums things up
Coming to conclusions
Synthesize
Thinking goals & Benefits

Thinking and Playing Some Thinking Routines we use at CGB & Education first Inc preschools
See/Think/Wonder
Wheel of Wonder (science)
I Used to think/ Know I think
Headline
circle of viewpoint
C/S/I
What makes you say that?
10 x 2
Connect/Extend/Challenge
Beginning/Middle/End
Thinking Keys

Thinking Keys
Concrete
Label thought
Model language
Verbalize moment
Color coded
Can be use all the time
Give support to all other routines
Tool for teacher
Guides open ended questions
Become a routine for teachers
Parent involvement
Facilitates understanding of PYP concepts

Documentation pieces:

Edu1st. Curriculum Elements Integrated and provocative experiences for children Skills Knowledge Visible Thinking Actions (plan/do/review) Behaviors edu1st.preschools video

Our Reflections :

I used to think / now I think About Visible Thinking Reflection time: Thinking Routine in action

Thank You! www.educationfirstinc.com [email_address]

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Making Thinking Visible Presentation for L A H C

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