2019 October

Visible Thinking Routine Symbols

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Visible Thinking Routines, are a series of processes developed by Harvard’s Project Zero and published in Ron Ritchart’s book Making Thinking Visible. They are completely amazing – simple yet powerful structures for thinking and learning. These structures have been adopted as one of the five essential practices at my new school.

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Visible Thinking Routines for international mindedness

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International mindedness, intercultural learning, global competence… all these terms are slight variations on a theme, an ever growingly important aspect of modern life: you are one of many people on this earth and there are people out there that think differently to you; not because they are evil or even unkind, ignorant or better informed, educated or not, not even because they are WRONG or RIGHT… just because they think differently.
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