As we work through the 8 Cultural Forces that Ron Ritchart has identified as necessary components to creating a Culture of Thinking, supporting and supplemental information will be included here for your use.

 

 

Thinking Routine Matrix from Making Thinking Visible.

 

Thinking Routine Explanations

8 Headlines 

9 Color Symbol Imagery 

10 Generate Sort Connect Elaborate Concept Maps 

11 connect Expand Challenge 

13 The Micro Lab Protocol 

14 I used to think now I think 

15 What Makes you Say That 

16 circle of Viewpoints 

17 Step Inside 

18 Red Light Yellow light 

21 Sentence Phrase Word 

 

 

Before the Publication of Making Thinking Visible, the Visible Thinking Project grouped the routines that we saw broken down into Introducing and Exploring Ideas, Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas, and Digging Deeper Into Ideas into other categories.  The following link has many of the same routines (and a few new ones) organized my Understanding, Fairness, Creativity and Truth.

 

This is a great video about how we can fail to impart understanding to our students, with some ideas on how to address the deficits.  Particularly interesting bits include

Start viewing at 3:45 to see Harvard and MIT graduates try to explain how a tree grows.

Start viewing at 6:30 to see how the nation's top students may have missed the point of photosynthesis, despite learning about it from 1st grade through 12th grade.

 

 

Cognitive Apprenticeship 

Ladder of Feedback Image 

 

Gradual Release of Responsibility

Reciprocal Teaching

Worksheet for Literature Reciprocal Teaching and Teacher Assignment for Reciprocal Teaching 

 

 Interactions - Chapter 8 (pp 201 to 226)