Visible thinking is a method for developing students' thinking skills and deepening their understanding of content. It utilizes various routines to achieve its dual goals, such as the core routine which includes thinking, puzzling, and exploring, the think pair share routine, and routines focused on fairness, creativity, truth, and understanding. The document provides examples of specific routines used to target different thinking skills and content areas.

1. Visible thinking
Visible Thinking is a way of
helping to achieve that without a
separate -thinking skills-.

2. Visible
• Thinking has a double goal:
on the one hand, to
cultivate students' thinking
skills and dispositions, and,
on the other, to deepen
content learning.

3. Structures of visible thinking.
• Core routine.
• Fairness routine.
• Creativity routine.
• Truth routine.
• Understanding
routine.

4. Core routine:
• THINK / PUZZLE / EXPLORE - A
routine that sets the stage for
deeper inquiry
• THINK PAIR SHARE ROUTINE -
A routine for active reasoning
and explanation
• SEE / THINK / WONDER - A
routine for exploring works of
art and other interesting things

5. Fairness routine
• OPTIONS EXPLOSION - A routine
for creative decision making
• OPTIONS DIAMOND - Exploring the
tensions of decision making routine
• DOES IT FIT? - A routine for
thinking creatively about options
• CREATIVE QUESTIONS- A routine
for generating and transforming
questions

6. Creativity routine.
• REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK A routine for
separating fact and feeling
• MAKING IT FAIR: NOW, THEN, LATER A
routine for finding actions
• HERE NOW / THERE THEN A routine for
considering presentist attitudes and
judgments
• CIRCLE OF VIEWPOINTS ROUTINE A
routine for exploring diverse perspectives

7. Truth routine.
• TRUE FOR WHO? A routine for exploring
truth claims from different perspectives
• HOTSPOTS A routine for noticing truth
occasions
• CLAIM / SUPPORT / QUESTION A
reasoning routine
• TUG FOR TRUTH A routine for exploring
tensions of truth

8. • THINK / PUZZLE / EXPLORE- A routine
that sets the stage for deeper inquiry
• THINK PAIR SHARE ROUTINE - A routine
for active reasoning and explanation
• QUESTION STARTS - A routine for
creating thought-provoking questions
• HEADLINES ROUTINE - A routine for
capturing essence
• THE EXPLANATION GAME - A routine for
exploring causal understanding