Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted
As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning. This is something all teachers want and all students deserve. In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author of Making Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture of thinking is more important to learning than any particular curriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish this by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time, modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, and environment.
With the techniques and rich classroom vignettes throughout this book, Ritchhart shows that creating a culture of thinking is not about just adhering to a particular set of practices or a general expectation that people should be involved in thinking. A culture of thinking produces the feelings, energy, and even joy that can propel learning forward and motivate us to do what at times can be hard and challenging mental work.
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RON RITCHHART is a senior research associate with Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he directs the worldwide Cultures of Thinking Project. He is also a fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching.
Klappentext
Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking
is valued, visible, and actively promoted
As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing
less than environments that bring out the best in people, take
learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel
both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of
learning. This is something all teachers want and all students
deserve. In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must
Master to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author of
Making Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture of
thinking is more important to learning than any particular
curriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish
this by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time,
modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, and
environment.
With the techniques and rich classroom vignettes throughout this
book, Ritchhart shows that creating a culture of thinking is not
about just adhering to a particular set of practices or a general
expectation that people should be involved in thinking. A culture
of thinking produces the feelings, energy, and even joy that can
propel learning forward and motivate us to do what at times can be
hard and challenging mental work.
Inhalt
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
About the Author xiii
Introduction Demystifying Group and Organizational Culture 1
A New Standard for Education 5
The Forces that Shape Culture 6
Tools for Transformation 10
One The Purpose and Promise of Schools 13
Thinking Differently about Outcomes 16
Teaching as Enculturation 19
Culture as the Enactment of a Story 20
Enacting Our New Story, Realizing Our Vision 34
Uncovering the Story of Your School or Classroom 35
Two Expectations: Recognizing How Our Beliefs Shape Our Behavior 37
Focusing Students on the Learning vs. the Work 43
Teaching for Understanding vs. Knowledge 47
Encouraging Deep vs. Surface Learning Strategies 50
Encouraging Independence vs. Dependence 54
Developing a Growth vs. a Fixed Mindset 55
Exploring and Developing Expectations 59
Three Language: Appreciating Its Subtle Yet Profound Power 61
The Language of Thinking 68
The Language of Community 71
The Language of Identity 74
The Language of Initiative 75
The Language of Mindfulness 78
The Language of Praise and Feedback 81
The Language of Listening 82
Leveraging Language 84
Becoming Proficient Users of the Languages of the Classroom 85
Four Time: Learning to Be Its Master Rather Than Its Victim 87
Recognizing Time as a Statement of Your Values 96
Learning to Prioritize and Always Prioritizing Learning 98
Giving Thinking Time 102
Investing Time to Make Time 105
Managing Energy, Not Time 107
It's Time to Rethink Time 110
Getting a Better Perspective on Time 112
Five Modeling: Seeing Ourselves through Our Students' Eyes 115
Dispositional Apprenticeship: Being a Role Model of Learning and Thinking 125
Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Our Thinking Visible 129
Gradual Release of Responsibility: Modeling for Independence 132
Interactive Modeling: Learning from Examples, Practice, and Reflection 135
Learning from Models 136
Modeling for the Development of Thinking, Learning, and Independence 138
Six Opportunities: Crafting the Vehicles for Learning 141
Constructing Character: Using Mathematics to Understand Othello's Iago 144
VoiceThread: Using Storytelling to Understand Migration 150
Music 2 Save Music 154
Categorizing, Recognizing, and Realizing Learning Opportunities 159
Analyzing and Creating Opportunities for Learning 169
Seven Routines: Supporting and Scaffolding Learning and Thinking 171
A Routine Is More Than an Activity 177
Using Claim-Support-Question to Delve Into Number Theory in Fifth Grade 179
More Than a Game: Differentiating Mathematics in Second Grade 185
Making CSQ Fly in Secondary Mathematics 188
Tools, Structures, and Patterns: Establishing Routines in the Classroom 190
Making Thinking Routine in Our Classrooms 196
Eight Interactions: Forging Relationships That Empower Learners 199
New Roles for Students: Empowering Disenfranchised Learners 204
Beyond Sit and Get: Teaching Students to Build on One Another's Ideas 212
Building Culture through Affect and Actions 218
Shaping Interactions through Roles 220
Asking Good Questions 221
Creating New Patterns of Discourse 223
Promoting Interactions That Support Thinking and Learning 225
Nine Environment: Using Space to Support Learning and Thinking 227
New Learning in an Old Container 231
Curating a Classroom 234
Designing for Thinking 242
Creating Environments to Enhance Learning and Build Culture: Four Fronts 247
Creating Environments That Bring Out the Best in Learners 259
Ten Moving toward T...