Making Thinking Visible
Making Thinking Visible – How to promote engagement, Understanding and Independence for learners ---by Ron Ritchart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison If one considers just verbs, Oxford English Dictionary rates the word ‘Think’ as the twelfth most used verb in the English language! Clearly the word ‘Think’ plays an astonishingly prominent role in our speech and writing, but for all this usage, how well do we understand what it actually means to think? Research indicates that understanding is not a precursor to application, analysis, evaluating, and creating but a result of it Why is it that we want kids to think? When is thinking useful? What purposes does it serve? The education ...