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Cultures Of Thinking

7/8/2016

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“What if we sought to develop a culture of thinking in our schools, classrooms, museums, meetings, and organisations?” 
― Ron Ritchhart, Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools
 
My school, inspired by the work of Ron Ritchhart and Harvard’s Project Zero, is currently working incredibly hard to create a Culture of Thinking. Ritchhart notes six key principles of the Culture of Thinking project:
  • Skills are not sufficient: we must have the disposition to use them.
  • The development of thinking and understanding is fundamentally a social endeavour.
  • The culture of the classroom teaches.
  • As educators we must strive to make student thinking visible.
  • Good thinking utilises a variety of resources.
  • For classrooms to be cultures of thinking for students, schools must be cultures of thinking for teachers.
 
Through 'Visible Thinking Routines', amongst other things, we as a community of educators are grabbing hold of powerful learning opportunities to maximise student potential.
 
Over the coming weeks I wish to share with you some examples of how I am using 'Visible Thinking Routines' to create a Culture of Thinking in my classroom. As suggested these routines should become ‘routine’. I have commenced this process through visual prompts for both my students and I to utilise in class.

Below are the prompts that I have printed and laminated for my classroom. They display the Core Routines. Detailed descriptions of each routine can be found here. These ideas are not my own, but a valuable resource which I believe should be shared and widely embraced. Please feel free to print them and display them in your classroom.

(All images have been sourced from Unsplash.)

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