FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

MODULE 2 Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)

PROJECT: 5: VISIBLE THINKING

PROFESSOR: Martn Ulises Aparicio Morataya

STUDENT: Mayra Esperanza Tejada

2011

INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this project is present a summary of what visible thinking is, and the different section in which visible thinking is divided. Visible thinking provides different routines that teachers can apply in order to develop the students visible thinking.

VISIBLE THINKING

Visible thinking is a systematic research approach which is based on the integration of the students thinking with a complete content learning across different subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of different practices in which students develops their thinking through the interaction of cultivating the students mental skills and dispositions such as curiosity, concern for true and understanding, a creative mindset. Visible thinking is for teachers, school learners, and administrators in K-12 schools who want to encourage the development of the culture of thinking in their classrooms and lives. Also, in this site we can find a convenient way to learn about visible thinking as well as through descriptions of ideals, routines and activities. The site is divided in four sections: visible thinking inaction, getting started, thinking routines, and thinking ideals. Visible Thinking in Action is, in which every committed educator wants to better learning and more thoughtful students, also is a way to helping students to improve their thinking. Also visible thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and improving the students intellectual development at the same time. This section achieves some goals such as: a deeper understanding of content, greater motivation for learning, development of thinking and learning abilities, development of learners attitudes towards thinking and learning, a shift in classroom culture toward community of enthusiastically thinker and learner. Getting started is the section in which the routines are the central element of the practical, functional and accessible nature of visible thinking. Thinking routines are easy to use mini strategies that are repeatedly used in the classroom. They are a small set of questions or short sequence of steps that can be used across various class levels and content. Each routine targets a different type of thinking and by bringing its own content into the classroom. Routines exist in all classrooms; they are the patterns by which we operate and go about the job of learning and working together in a classroom environment. Thinking routines refers to those loosely guide learners though process and encourage active processing. They are short, easy to learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students thinking and become part of the everyday classroom life. Classrooms also have routines that structure the way students go about the process of learning. These learning routines can be simple structures, such as a reading from a text and answering the questions at the end of the chapter, asking students what they know, what they want to know, and what they have learn as part of a unit of study.