Over the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in how teachers can best build a culture of thinking in their classrooms, nurture students as powerful thinkers and learners, and foster student engagement. These goals are more important in times of disrupted learning than ever. Making Thinking Visible, co-authored by Mark Church, Dr. Ron Ritchhart, and Karin Morrison, did much to popularize the use of thinking routines in schools, museums, and university settings around the world. However, this has not been without challenges. Some teachers merely use thinking routines as one-off activities or in a superficial way.
In their most recent book, The Power of Making Thinking Visible, Mark Church and Ron Ritchhart share their research into just what difference using making thinking visible practices makes for students and teachers and how teachers can plan to use these practices to maximum effect. When used powerfully, thinking routines not only provide teachers with a set of practices to engage students, but help advance a broader goal to create classrooms where students’ thinking is visible, valued, and actively promoted. This course will explore these ideas while engaging teachers in many of the new routines and practices presented in the book.
The ideas we’ll focus on are universal and relevant to teachers of all grade levels. Every participant will be encouraged to consider possibilities with the course ideas in their own teaching and learning contexts. For those who have experience with Making Thinking Visible, this course will both refresh the learning as well as provide further opportunities to think about powerful practices that deepen student learning. For those new to the ideas of Making Thinking Visible, this course is a good place to get started.
WORKSHOP AND EMBEDDING PRACTICE DATES
This course is more than just a workshop! It will be a combination of in-person learning and online, ongoing support sessions to help you with embedding your learning into your teaching practice.
We will gather together in-person in Amsterdam on Thursday and Friday, 9-10 February, 2023; then online for three 2hr sessions on 7 March, 4 April, and 23 May; 16:00 – 18:00 CET, 2023.
There will be reflecting, reading, planning, and taking classroom actions in between sessions which will help contextualize the ideas and take them deeper. Our aim is to make participation in this course accessible, meaningful, and manageable for all. Though ongoing classroom action is required, our intention is for this to feel fueling, not fatiguing. Inspiring, not insulting.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW - BIG IDEAS
During the first two days of the workshop as well as in the follow-up online support sessions, we will:
Explore the Power of Making Thinking Visible Practices to Promote Deep Learning
Consider the Power to Enhance our Formative Assessment Practice by Making Thinking Visible
Frame Making Thinking Visible as Goal, as well as a Set of Practices
Learn to Use Thinking Routines for Maximum Effect
Key questions we will examine throughout the course:
What are the six powers of making thinking visible?
What do we mean by deep learning?
What does deep learning look like and entail?
What is understanding and what kinds of thinking moves help develop understanding?
Exploring the Understanding Map
How can we develop our formative assessment practice with students’ thinking as a lens?
What can we learn from looking at student work to inform possible next instructional moves?
What has been learned about different ways teachers make thinking visible in powerful ways?
How do various MTV practices relate to and connect to each other?
What do these practices look like in action?
How can we plan with and learn from colleagues to help us use thinking routines to maximum effect?
Participants will need a laptop or tablet. In addition, participants may want to have headphones/ earbuds and a quiet space to view and interact. All participants will be issued with a link to the online support sessions. Participants will be asked to use the video and sound function to enable full participation. Participants will connect through the ZOOM meetings platform for the online follow-on support sessions. The follow-on sessions will not be recorded. Participants will be required to have a copy of The Power of Making Thinking Visible as a text for the course.
Registration
Early Bird Rate - €650.00 ends 16-12-2022
Standard Rate - €700.00 ends 07-02-2023
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Featured speaker
Mark Church
Mark Church works with schools throughout the world interested in developing and deepening cultures of thinking in their classrooms. He is quite interested in where educators find a lot of power and agency for their teaching when making their students’ thinking visible, giving it great value, and using student thinking to create ongoing learning opportunities.
Mark has been a longtime collaborator and consultant with Harvard Project Zero’s MakingThinking Visible and Cultures of Thinking initiatives worldwide, drawing upon his own classroom teaching experience and from the perspectives he has gained working with educators near and far. Together with Ron Ritchhart, Mark co-authored Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass, 2011) and the more recent book, The Power of Making Thinking Visible (Jossey-Bass, 2020), that demonstrate interest in and respect for students’ thinking, and send clear expectations about the importance and value of thinking in learning. Together with Ron Ritchhart and Karin Morrison, Mark is co-author of the book Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass, 2011).
By booking a registration, you accept the CDLT Terms and Conditions.