{"id":463,"date":"2017-11-11T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=463"},"modified":"2017-11-12T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:37:23","slug":"the-things-hiding-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2017\/11\/the-things-hiding-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things Hiding Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever really sat down and took the chance to just think? What about thinking about your thinking?\u00a0 Most people will probably answer no, and I&#8217;d understand why.\u00a0 I never really thought about sitting down and thinking about my thinking.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve come to understand the importance of just thinking in general, and making sure you know you are thinking.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.picturequotes.com\/2\/88\/87646\/no-amount-of-thinking-can-stop-thinking-quote-1.jpg?resize=353%2C455\" width=\"353\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is no point where if you keep thinking, you&#8217;ll just stop.\u00a0 There is so much to think about, and students often don&#8217;t show how they are thinking.\u00a0 We as educators have to get that thinking visible, because once we can see it, we&#8217;ll never be able to stop.\u00a0 In Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison&#8217;s book\u00a0<em>Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners<\/em>, they give us lots of tips, strategies, and tools to recognize this thinking and to get students to begin thinking.\u00a0 Once the students start thinking, they start learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy for Introducing and Exploring Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is where it begins, this is when you get your students thinking and then we just keep encouraging their thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chalk Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chalk Talk is a wonderful way to get students thinking about their previous knowledge and past experiences.\u00a0 To begin Chalk Talk you set up areas in the room for students to do a silent conversation or discussion based on each topic\/question that you create.\u00a0 The best questions are ones related to controversial or complicated topics, such as cloning or climate change because everyone has something to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>The students will wander around the room and write out responses\/questions to the initial question posed.\u00a0 This allows a silent discussion between the class as they will be able to give their points.\u00a0 This is a great way to get students that are quiet to share their responses with the class.\u00a0 Students start thinking about what they feel and what they know.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ChalkTalk in Mrs. K\u2019s World! Ss engaged in DoK 2-3 Q&amp;A on their desks. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spartylearns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Spartylearns<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/edpiper?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#edpiper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/studentvoice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#studentvoice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CHSSpartans?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CHSSpartans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iImLmdtpbO\">pic.twitter.com\/iImLmdtpbO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trish Klapprodt (@mrsksworld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrsksworld\/status\/925570763553419265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy for Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is where students take all their thoughts and ideas and then place them together in an organized fashion.\u00a0 This is how they can get a better understanding of the main ideas and concepts they are thinking about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This strategy has students stop and think about the central idea of what they are learning or have learned.\u00a0 The goal is to get them to produce some kind of tangible thought that they can present.\u00a0 There are multitudes of ways to do this, including just having the students write out the central idea.\u00a0 To make this more creative, the students are supposed to create a &#8220;headline&#8221;.\u00a0 Something that is attention seeking like from a newspaper that will draw a reader in or at least give them a good summary of what everything is about.<\/p>\n<p>One way to do this in a classroom is to go through a learning cycle, then towards the end in the evaluate have the students come up with a central idea to the entire learning cycle. For example, if talking about forces, students could sum up what they learned in a headline they create.\u00a0 They would then share it with a small group, and provide justification and reasoning behind their choice for the headline title.\u00a0 This is an easy way to assess students as well, as they are providing the reasoning behind their choice, which can show their understanding.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Headlines Thinking Routine in Mr. M&#039;s Music Room\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6oejeTAZQfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video shows a great demonstration of headlines in a 2nd Grade Music classroom!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy for Digging Deeper Into Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is when the students take everything they have learned so far and put it into a new light.\u00a0 Maybe it is a new scenario that they didn&#8217;t have before with much more complicated situations, which forces the students to think about each decision that they make.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Circle of Viewpoints<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The goal of this strategy is to get students thinking in more than one perspective.\u00a0 Often times students will only be able to see things from their own view, but in this activity they start to take on a role that they are given or they choose.<\/p>\n<p>First, an event, situation, or question is posed to the students.\u00a0 Most likely with a complicated scenario where more than one &#8220;right&#8221; answer is possible.\u00a0 These students then will form a circle where they can see things from a different angle.\u00a0 They are prompted to take on a role in the situation and provide the viewpoint of the role.\u00a0 They must explain this viewpoint and be prepared to defend it.\u00a0 The students are encouraged to question based on the role they are in, as that role may not be able to understand another role&#8217;s perspective at all.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the strategy is the flexibility of when it is done.\u00a0 It could be done at the beginning to get new ideas flowing or at the end to extend the learning and thinking.\u00a0 For example, a teacher could do this at the beginning of a lesson on deforestation.\u00a0 The students could be given roles that they must portray in the event of a forest being taken down around a village.\u00a0 This would show them a perspective they may not have ever had before or even recognized, because not everyone sees a problem and situation in the same way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why It&#8217;s Important<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It might be easy to just write off the strategies as more random ideas that people throw out in the education field, but they are tangible activities that make thinking visible.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very important to make sure you can see when students are thinking and what they are thinking, because if it isn&#8217;t visible they may not get a clear scope of what they must do or what they are supposed to be learning.\u00a0 If their thinking is visible then you can help them expand their thinking or even catch them if they get lost along the way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Lloyd: An inventory of the invisible\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/john_lloyd_an_inventory_of_the_invisible\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Comedian, TV man, and writer John Lloyd summarizes the entire concept of making thinking visible with multiple examples and other invisible things in our lives.\u00a0 Most of these invisible things are just as important or more important than the visible.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to look at more strategies from the other wonderful bloggers on here, as I only gave you one example of each kind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Have you ever really sat down and took the chance to just think? 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