Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

*** A proven program for enhancing students' thinking andcomprehension abilities *** Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teachingthinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students'thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening theirunderstanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set offixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection ofpractices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or ashort sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of studentthinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as thestudents' different viewpoints are expressed, documented,discussed and reflected upon.