Visible Thinking Routines

The 21st century demands that the students think and think deeply. For this as teachers we must go beyond getting students to complete their tasks. We have to create opportunities for students to think. These are used across age groups and across subjects across curricula. The skills are transferable to real life situations seamlessly as by virtue of being routines, they become habits.

Through his research, Ron Ritchhart at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Project Zero, has proven and shared with the world of educators that thinking as a process can be made visible and can be thus taught.

In the sessions of Visible Thinking Routines, I work closely with the educators over extended period of time moving from an overview to working through each category of Thinking Routines – Routines for introducing and exploring ideas; Routines for Synthesizing and organising ideas; and Routines for Digging deeper into ideas.

Below you can see a routine called – ‘ChalkTalk’ , in progress.