VISIBLE THINKING

Module 3
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)

UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English
Topic. Visible Thinking

Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Student: Carlos German Rodriguez












Objective: to summarize the main ideas about visible thinking and its implication in an EFL classroom.



INTRODUCTION

Every day teachers and educators are looking for methods, system to teach, approaches and resources to make easy every class to understand every topic by students. It is not a easy task to teach and understand every students mostly kids and teenager. Motivation is the key to maintain the concentration all time. The question is how can maintain it? What I need to do it? The next research opens a door to work in that way.
Visible thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.
It has been developed by David Perkins who works in a project of Harvard University.
It is collection of practices. Practices motivate students to perform the knowledge. Visible Thinking has two objectives. Firstly, they can cultivate abilities and dispositions to make it. Secondly, they could learn contents easily.




WHAT IS VISIBLE THINKING

It is a way to help students make educational activities using creative ideas. Thinking is a way of helping to achieve that without a separate ‘thinking skills' course or fixed lessons. Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time.
Visible Thinking, which is research-based, has two goals: to deepen subject-matter learning and cultivate students’ disposition toward thinking. To reach that goal, teachers use mini-strategies, or thinking routines, they integrate into content learning. With these routines, students have methods not only to connect new information to what they have previously studied and know, but also to see how this new information challenges their thinking. It also helps students form new questions. With Visible Thinking, it gives students a structure to process new content.
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HOW DOES VISIBLE THINKING WORK?

Visible Thinking is based seven core routines that target different types of thinking
• What Makes You Say That? (interpretation with justification).
• Think Puzzle Explore (sets the stage for further inquiry).
• Think Pair Share (active reasoning and explanation).
• Circle of Viewpoints (exploring diverse perspectives).
• I used to think…Now I think (reflecting on how and why our thinking changed).
• See Think Wonder (exploring works of art and other interesting things).
• Connect Extend Challenge (making connections, identifying new information, and posing questions).
In addition to these core routines, Visible Thinking includes routines on fairness, truth, and creativity.





WHO ARE THE BENEFITERS
When a teacher is unmotivated to teach a class this is showed to students, and this affect the good environment and relationship of the class. Everybody must enjoy the class, the topic, all students must participate in every activities, they must be attend to do it and when he o she is not participating should see what the other students are doing the task in order to understand and learn every activities into the class . All of participants, students and teacher should be motivated in order to be successful the goal of the class. Students are very curiosity to learn , to touch, to watch something new and in that way can be introduce the activities .
Visible Thinking is for teachers, school leaders and administrators in K - 12 schools who want to encourage the development of a culture of thinking in their classrooms and schools.


WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE RESEARCH
Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time. Here are some of its key goals:
• Deeper understanding of content
• Greater motivation for learning
• Development of learners' thinking and learning abilities.
• Development of learners' attitudes toward thinking and learning and their alertness to opportunities for thinking and learning (the "dispositional" side of thinking).
• A shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners.



CONCLUSION
• Visible Thinking benefits all students, it provides an exciting venue for students who have not experienced success in school.

• Visible Thinking further gives students with gifts and talents a means with which to explore their ideas at a deeper level and enables teachers to provide more targeted differentiated instruction for these.

• Finally, Visible Thinking helps teachers understand how the class as a whole is decoding information and provides a tangible way for students to interact with, and learn from, each other.