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The Thinking Curriculum

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Welcome to Thinking Classroom. Visible Thinking. Purpose and Goals Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.

Visible Thinking

An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them Who is it for? Visible Thinking is for teachers, school leaders and administrators in K - 12 schools who want to encourage the development of a culture of thinking in their classrooms and schools.

Key Features and Practices At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. License. Thinkingframe.com - Home. Visible Thinking. For more information, please see the Visible Thinking website.

Visible Thinking

Thinking is pretty much invisible. To be sure, sometimes people explain the thoughts behind a particular conclusion, but often they do not. Mostly, thinking happens under the hood, within the marvelous engine of our mind-brain. As the name suggests, the basic strategy is to make thinking visible in the context of learning. One reason sophisticated thinking develops slowly is that thinking happens inside the head: Children do not readily 'see' their own cognitive moves, and most classroom practices do not engage students in substantive thinking around content very much at all, and certainly not in ways that make it visible across the classroom. Visible Thinking includes a large number of classroom routines, easily and flexibly integrated with content learning, and representing areas of thinking such as understanding, truth and evidence, fairness and moral reasoning, creativity, self-management, and decision making.

Kestrel Education. Childrenthinking.co.uk. Thought Questions - Asking the right questions is the answer. Thinking Skills Lesson Plans and Activities. We all know that learning knowledge alone won't equip children for the future.

Thinking Skills Lesson Plans and Activities

It's vitally important to teach them skills which they can adapt to different situations later in life. A whole school resource, Thinking Skills helps teachers to introduce and embed personal learning and thinking skills from Reception through to Year 6. The emphasis on thinking skills will help children to become much more aware of their own behaviour and empowers them to drive their own learning. With clear progression throughout the pupils' progression from Reception up to Year 6, it features numerous activities to explicitly teach these skills plus guidance on how to embed the skills within other curriculum areas. Featuring a book and accompanying CD, this comprehensive resource, covers: Independent Inquirers - this skill is all about teaching the children to think for themselves.

See also our: Dynamo! Learning Outside the Classroom books Poetry in Motion CD. Learning2learn_brain. SAPERE - Home. P4C: Philosophy4Children Home. Primary Literacy resources: KS2 skills – Key Stage 2 word and sentence level work - Thinking skills (KS2) Home. Can Do Courses. The Differentiator. New Page 1. Blooming Orange: Bloom's Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster. Here’s another poster to help get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom’s higher-order thinking skills with your children.

Blooming Orange: Bloom's Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster

This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts. While there are many more verbs that we could have added, we felt that including just seven in each segment would make them easier to remember (For more information, see Miller’s paper “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information.” We thought it would be interesting to depict the verbs in a circular form as opposed to a hierarchical list, given that these skills don’t often occur in isolation and are interconnected. We went through several concepts including a wheel, a pie, and an apple, but somehow the orange seemed to work best when we put everything together. For those of you who prefer it, we’ve also created a grayscale version of the poster. Download the pdf’s here: