Visible Thinking Routine Symbols

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.

These are pedagogical approaches that all teachers in the primary are using across ages and discipline areas. At my previous school I liked to use symbols to represent the different routines and steps within them. So I created a set of posters for the routines we focus on… Plus a few more just because I like them 🙂

For each of the routines I am also going to make templates we can use to structure student recording (round about way of saying worksheet… but not a worksheet).