Visible ThinkingAntony Atkinson

&

Rhian Healy

rhian.healy@smtafe.wa.edu.au

Overview

Workshop warning

Sample routines

Principles & Theory

Other Routines

Questions

Headline

Write a headline based on

what you think will be the

main point of today’s session

Thinking questions?

Who painted it?

What’s it called?

When was it

painted?

What style was it

painted in?

See, Think, Wonder

What do you

SEE?

What do you

THINK about

it?

What does it

make you

WONDER?

See, Think, Wonder (variation)

Connect, Extend, Challenge

How do these ideas CONNECT to what you already know?

What new ideas did you get that EXTEND or push your thinking

in new directions?

What is now a CHALLENGE for you to get your mind around?

GSCE: Concept Maps

GENERATE a list of ideas and initial thoughts

SORT your ideas into central or tangential

CONNECT your ideas by drawing connecting lines

ELABORATE on ideas by expanding, extending or adding

Concept Map: Stereotypes

Concept Map: Beauty

Visible Thinking

Harvard Project Zero

Making thinking “visible”

Language learning implications

Routines not content

Map of

Understanding

Other routines

Think, Pair, Share

What makes you say that?

Colour, Symbol, Image

Chalk talk

Circle of viewpoints

Review

Look at your headline you wrote at

the start of the session.

What’s the headline now that

captures the main point of the

session?

Questions

Do you have any questions?

References

http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_fil

es/VisibleThinking1.html

Ritchhart, R., Church, M. & Morrison, K. (2011). Making

Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement,

Understanding, and Independence for All Learners. San

Fransisco: Jossey-Bass.