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The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners
The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies
Visible Thinking--a research-based approach developed at Harvard's Project Zero - prompts and promotes students' thinking. This approach has been shown to positively impact student engagement, learning, and development as thinkers. Visible Thinking involves using thinking routines, documentation, and effective questioning and listening techniques to enhance learning and collaboration in any learning environment. The Power of Making Thinking Visible explains how educators can effectively use thinking routines and other tools to engage and empower students as learners and transform classrooms into places of deep learning.
Building on the success of the bestselling Making Thinking Visible, this highly-anticipated new book expands the work of the original by providing 18 new thinking routines based on new research and work with teachers and students around the world. Original content explains how to use thinking routines to maximum effect in the classroom, engage students exploration of big ideas, link thinking routines to formative assessment, and more. Providing new research, new global case studies, and new practices, this book:
Focuses on the power that thinking routines can bring to learning Provides practical insights on using thinking routines to facilitate student engagement Highlights the most effective techniques for using thinking routines in the classroom Identifies the skillsets and mindsets needed to truly make thinking visible Features actionable classroom strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas Written by researchers from Harvard's Project Zero, The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Using Routines to Engage and Empower Learners is an indispensable resource for K-12 educators and curriculum designers, higher education instructional designers and educators, and professional learning course developers.
Visible Thinking--a research-based approach developed at Harvard's Project Zero - prompts and promotes students' thinking. This approach has been shown to positively impact student engagement, learning, and development as thinkers. Visible Thinking involves using thinking routines, documentation, and effective questioning and listening techniques to enhance learning and collaboration in any learning environment. The Power of Making Thinking Visible explains how educators can effectively use thinking routines and other tools to engage and empower students as learners and transform classrooms into places of deep learning.
Building on the success of the bestselling Making Thinking Visible, this highly-anticipated new book expands the work of the original by providing 18 new thinking routines based on new research and work with teachers and students around the world. Original content explains how to use thinking routines to maximum effect in the classroom, engage students exploration of big ideas, link thinking routines to formative assessment, and more. Providing new research, new global case studies, and new practices, this book:
Focuses on the power that thinking routines can bring to learning Provides practical insights on using thinking routines to facilitate student engagement Highlights the most effective techniques for using thinking routines in the classroom Identifies the skillsets and mindsets needed to truly make thinking visible Features actionable classroom strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas Written by researchers from Harvard's Project Zero, The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Using Routines to Engage and Empower Learners is an indispensable resource for K-12 educators and curriculum designers, higher education instructional designers and educators, and professional learning course developers.
320 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2020
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About the author
Ron Ritchhart
15 books51 followersRon Ritchhart is currently a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero where his work focuses on such issues as teaching for understanding, the development of intellectual character, creative teaching, making students' thinking visible, and most recently the development of school and classroom culture. Ron's research and writings, particularly his theory of Intellectual Character and framework for understanding group culture through the Cultural Forces, have informed the work of schools, school systems, and museums throughout the world. His current research focuses on how classrooms change as teachers strive to make thinking valued, visible, and actively promoted in their classrooms.
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August 9, 2023
I really like that this book has structures and routines easily formatted and ready to go. There are lots of great ideas in here to help get your students thinking and talking.
July 8, 2023
This is exactly what I needed this summer. It takes my thinking to the next step. Our district uses workshop and rubrics, but there seemed to be something just out of reach. Making Thinking Visible is exactly that next step. For our inquiry team, these are tools we can use to help our students launch their learning.
July 18, 2020
This is brilliant- every bit as good as the first one, Making Thinking Visible, produced by Ritchhart and Church. This latest text has 18 new routines, but more importantly, it focuses on developing a deeper level of thinking and engagement with content in our students. Full of great advice and practical ideas, this is a must for any teacher in the contemporary context.
December 26, 2020
Inspiring and revelatory, as you would expect from Ritchhart and Church. After an exhausting term of teaching under COVID19 restrictions, this book has revitalised me and hopefully my practice. Worth its weight in gold.
July 3, 2022
I read The Power of Making Thinking Visible because I thoroughly enjoyed Ritchhart's previous book, Making Thinking Visible. Like many follow-up books, this one wasn't as good as the original. Like the first book, the heart of it was "thinking routines," that give teachers a structure to help kids work through material at a deep level. I did find new routines that were helpful, and the end of the book had some great ideas for how teachers could process these routines in groups to help with implementation. However, I often found myself thinking that the new routines were not necessary. Some of them were similar to earlier routines. Some of them were pretty self-evident. Some of them were too narrow to be useful very often. In other words this book felt a little forced. I highly recommend, Making Thinking Visible, and if you like it, this book will probably be worth your time. Just don't expect too much.
June 22, 2023
This is a book that all educators should have and be familiar with. I’d argue that the bookended sections explaining the core concepts could probably have been trimmed a bit - they seem to exist to really, REALLY hammer home the central conceit that thinking isn’t something you add to your lessons, it makes up the core of why we teach. Despite that, there’s some great info here for teachers, PD leaders, and administrators. The meat and potatoes of this book, though, is the section in the middle in which thinking routines are introduced, explained, and walked through. Sure, these sections can be a little longer than needed, but they often include information that made me think about a strategy’s uses in new and interesting ways. Even if you don’t read this cover to cover, it’s a great tool to have as you consider how to give thinking a visible central place in your classroom.
March 12, 2022
There are so many great thinking routines in this book! I took a mini-practicum online/ with coworkers at my school. I had this book on my iPad and highlighted and wrote notes all over it. It was nice being able to use the search function in apple books. However, I think this could be a really great one to have a hard copy of because it might be easier to just flip through and find inspiration that way. Great book to have on hand for all teachers!
August 8, 2020
Awesome! Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church thoroughly illustrate the use of thinking tools, strategies and patterns of behaviour. This book expands on the research-based solutions explained in Making Thinking Visible by given more tools for educators who aim at teaching their students to engage in learning activities and value their own thinking.
August 1, 2021
Fantastic book. Clearly written and gives excellent ideas how teachers could (and should) make thinking visible in the classroom. Lots of examples and detailed information how to use the information in the book in the classroom.
November 25, 2021
If you are looking to improve your teaching and, more importantly, your students' learning, this book is pure inspiration. I can't say enough about this book and the concepts promoted by Ritchhart. Phenomenal.
July 13, 2023
Doesn’t matter what grade you teach, you NEED this book! Your students will be more engaged, more intrinsically motivated, and think more critically using these strategies. Also, you’ll more easily see where their misconceptions lie for reteaching.
July 10, 2020
Excellent resource for educators with examples at all levels. Great compliment to PBL and inquiry work, both very important to me.
August 11, 2020
Great list of resources to refer to; activities you can implement right away in the classroom!
January 19, 2023
Packed with great examples and models for making thinking visible as well as establishing habits of mind that encourage deeper thinking
March 23, 2023
Great teaching strategies with loads of applicable examples. A good read for any teacher looking for new ways to engage students in their learning.
August 1, 2020
If you liked Making Thinking Visible, you will love The Power of Making Thinking Visible. Imagine the authors, Ron Ritchart and Mark Church had an opportunity to study how the thinking routines, introduced on Project Zero’s Visible Thinking website and then in their book, Making Thinking Visible, were being used and the impact they have had on teaching and learning practices in classrooms. The insights they might have gained seem to have given birth to The Power of Making Thinking Visible, in which the authors guide educators towards making more profound use of the practice of Making Thinking Visible.
The book makes this possible because, at the very outset, the authors pluck the practice of Making Thinking Visible from a stand-alone existence and give it a context within a culture of deep learning; a culture that endeavors to nurture critical thinkers with the dispositions necessary to strive for deep enduring learning. Always, but especially in today’s world such deep learning is vital to navigate life in a global world, enjoy its bounties, and participate in tackling its myriad problems. Deep learning should be the purpose and goal of all education.
“..two ideas - understanding and thinking are core to the conception of deep learning.” With that simple statement, the authors weave the two ideas inextricably together, making understanding the result of thinking and thinking the vehicle for understanding. This idea resonates throughout the book in many ways. Chapters at the beginning of the book lay out a teaching/learning approach that aspires towards deep learning through thinking. The authors provide evidence for six fundamental ways in which such an approach valuable, including better test results. The new routines are organized into three categories: routines to engage students with ideas, to promote intellectual interaction amongst peers, and to encourage students to translate their learning into meaningful action. Descriptions of the new routines thoughtfully guide and encourage teachers to use the thinking routines not merely as activities, but as the all important mode by which students can participate actively in constructing meaning of all they are prescribed to learn. However, the biggest benefit of this ubiquitous use of critical thinking patterns for learning is the thinking dispositions that are likely to be cultivated in students, making it possible for them to continue to be critical thinkers long after the lessons and school are over.
For teachers hoping to transform the teaching and learning dynamic in the classroom so that they can work as a team with their students and empower each other to aspire for deep learning, this is a must read book!
Vaija Wagle
The book makes this possible because, at the very outset, the authors pluck the practice of Making Thinking Visible from a stand-alone existence and give it a context within a culture of deep learning; a culture that endeavors to nurture critical thinkers with the dispositions necessary to strive for deep enduring learning. Always, but especially in today’s world such deep learning is vital to navigate life in a global world, enjoy its bounties, and participate in tackling its myriad problems. Deep learning should be the purpose and goal of all education.
“..two ideas - understanding and thinking are core to the conception of deep learning.” With that simple statement, the authors weave the two ideas inextricably together, making understanding the result of thinking and thinking the vehicle for understanding. This idea resonates throughout the book in many ways. Chapters at the beginning of the book lay out a teaching/learning approach that aspires towards deep learning through thinking. The authors provide evidence for six fundamental ways in which such an approach valuable, including better test results. The new routines are organized into three categories: routines to engage students with ideas, to promote intellectual interaction amongst peers, and to encourage students to translate their learning into meaningful action. Descriptions of the new routines thoughtfully guide and encourage teachers to use the thinking routines not merely as activities, but as the all important mode by which students can participate actively in constructing meaning of all they are prescribed to learn. However, the biggest benefit of this ubiquitous use of critical thinking patterns for learning is the thinking dispositions that are likely to be cultivated in students, making it possible for them to continue to be critical thinkers long after the lessons and school are over.
For teachers hoping to transform the teaching and learning dynamic in the classroom so that they can work as a team with their students and empower each other to aspire for deep learning, this is a must read book!
Vaija Wagle
April 5, 2021
Why make thinking visible is a viable asset to a teacher toolkit
In Ron Richard’s new book he describes ways to make thinking visible and the value it adds to morning. I completed the micro practicum and really gained a lot from unpacking the book as a team.
In Ron Richard’s new book he describes ways to make thinking visible and the value it adds to morning. I completed the micro practicum and really gained a lot from unpacking the book as a team.
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