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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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ADE Institute 2019

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This might be a slightly different institute reflection than what you expect. I’ve read a few lovely recounts of what happened and what we did. Everyone has done such a great job doing so that I won’t repeat it here but rather talk about how the institute made me feel and how it changed my thinking. Read More

Writing Assessment – Recount

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One of the areas we have been working on this term has been “writing assessment”. Last year we had one writing benchmark activity across the primary school and that was a personal recount. This is one of the simplest forms of writing and is easily accessible regardless of age or English level.  Read More