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  • 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 Routines - Chapter 7 (pp 171 to 199)
     
    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 
    12 The 4 Cs
    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 
    19 Claim Support Question
    20 Tug of War
    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.
    Visible Thinking in Action Homepage 
     
    Minds of Our Own
    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.
    Mind of Our Own 
     
     
    Modeling - Chapter 5 (pp 115 to 141)
    Cognitive Apprenticeship 
    Ladder of Feedback Image 
     
    Gradual Release of Responsibility
    Reciprocal Teaching
    Worksheet for Literature Reciprocal Teaching and Teacher Assignment for Reciprocal Teaching 
    Reciprocal Teaching in Mathematics Article
    11th Grade English Class Reciprocal Teaching Video
     
     Interactions - Chapter 8 (pp 201 to 226)
     
     
    Expectations - Chapter 2 (pp 39 to 60) 

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