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Making Thinking Visible
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Making Thinking Visible

How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison
Jossey-Bass, 2011

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Innovative teachers and researchers Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison present vibrant teaching examples from real classroom applications. They offer 21 strategies for engaging students and encouraging them to think more creatively and to share their thoughts. These techniques also promote a better understanding of exactly how students think. Teachers will find practical exercises and routines they can use in many situations to elicit discussion, debate, reflection and creative thought. The authors’ approach also has relevance for educational administrators and for adult educators, who can apply variations of many of the exercises for older learners in the workplace. getAbstract recommends these worthwhile methods to teachers needing proven thought-provoking, class-participation tools.

Take-Aways

  • Too much of the primary-education system in the US and other places relies on testing.
  • Teachers’ preoccupation with “teaching to the test” and preset standards robs students of thinking and learning opportunities.
  • To really know, you must think.

About the Authors

Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison are teachers and researchers. Their book includes an instructional DVD.

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