How visible are they used in classrooms? Visible Thinking Routines promote critical thinking skills in leaners. They function in several ways: VTRs function as tools educators use to encourage deep ...

Amidst the discussions about content standards, curriculum and teaching strategies, it's easy to lose sight of the big goals behind education, like giving students tools to deepen their quantitative ...

1. Brainstorm a list of at least 12 questions about the topic, concept or object. Use these question-starts to help you think of interesting questions: Why...? How ...

A Project Zero "Visible Thinking" routine for finding actions. This routine helps students identify and evaluate specific actions to make a situation fair. After framing the task by discussing an ...

KQED's Mindshift podcast visits a language arts classroom where an extroverted teacher has developed creative ways of inviting introverted students to share their thinking. When students head back to ...