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Making thinking visible : how to promote engagement, understanding, and independence for all learners  Cover Image Book Book

Making thinking visible : how to promote engagement, understanding, and independence for all learners / Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison.

Summary:

Visible thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking. It reviews thinking and its connection to understanding and engagement. It shows how thinking can be made visible in diverse learning environments at a variety of grade levels. It describes how effective questioning, listening, documentation and thinking routines can make thinking visible and help learners learn about learning and think about thinking. The DVD contains video clips of visible thinking strategies in use in classroom settings.

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  • ISBN: 9780470915516 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xxvi, 294 pages ; 24 cm + 1 videodisc (DVD : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2011], ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Unpacking thinking -- Putting thinking at the center of the educational enterprise -- Using thinking routines to make thinking visible -- Routines for introducing and exploring ideas -- Routines for synthesizing and organizing ideas -- Routines for digging deeper into ideas -- Creating a place where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted -- Notes from the field.
Subject: Thought and thinking > Study and teaching.
Critical thinking > Study and teaching.
Cognition in children.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Cranbrook Campus LB 1590.3 .R63 2011 (Text) 31111000126514 CRANBROOK Volume hold Available -


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