One of my favorite things about the district I teach for is their amazing initiative to promote student thinking. Too many times throughout our students careers they are given exact ways of thinking. We memorize multiplication facts, but struggle to use them later in life. We memorize spelling words to pass the test, but still misspell them when writing papers. Yet, over the past few years, my district has begun to place the emphasis on student thinking, and not the final product. The growth our students have made is enormous, and Making Thinking Visible has quickly become an everyday classroom use.
When looking for information on Cultures of Thinking, this video gives a great example of one of the routines used with students. It also happens to be one of my favorite routines!
The Cultures of Thinking Program is all based around this book, written by Ron Ritchhart:
All of our district's training was provided through our school consortium, Oakland County Schools. We attend all our county training's through Oakland Counties facilities building.
Our Cultures of Thinking training dates keep us plenty busy. In the end, I keep a separate running tally of how many hours of training provided (over 180hrs last year alone). Which means my Google Calendar comes into use a LOT! Embedded is a sample of my October's month of dates.
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