Make Learning VISIBLE!
Thinking Dispositions that Support Thoughtful Learning K-5
When thinking is visible in classrooms, students are in a position to be more metacognitive, to think about their thinking. When thinking is visible, learning is not about memorizing content but exploring ideas and applying them. Teachers benefit when they can see students' thinking because misconceptions, prior knowledge, reasoning ability, and degrees of understanding are more likely to be uncovered so that teachers can then address challenges and help students grow from wherever they start.
Visible Thinking is the product of a number of years of research concerning thinking and learning about integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters and grade levels. It has a double goal: to cultivate students' critical thinking skills and dispositions and to deepen content learning.
Visible Learning can help to:
- Having a deeper understanding of content
- Making inferences using (text) evidence to support thinking
- Using connections that deepen their comprehension and thinking
- Determining big ideas and themes
- Creating a greater motivation for learning
- Increasing communication skills to relay thinking
This session will show you how to use art, charts, graphs, and other images to help your students develop observational skills that can then be used to deepen their abilities to draw conclusions, make inferences, explore viewpoints, build vocabulary, develop questions, and more. Using these new skills with visual images is a scaffold to student application into the written word. Want to learn more? Register today for this workshop led by Julie Monetta, SIEC Director of Educator Support.
Southern Indiana Education Center
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