Teaching that Sticks: Infusing Visible Thinking Routines into the Adult Learner Classroom(NE)

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Overview

Visible Thinking makes extensive use of learning routines that are thinking rich. These routines are simple structures, for example a set of questions or a short sequence of steps, that can be used across various levels and content. What makes them routines, versus merely strategies, is that they get used over and over again in the classroom so that they become part of the fabric of classroom' culture. The routines become the ways in which students go about the process of learning. This workshop will help to facilitate a shift in your classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners.

Details

Mostly, thinking happens “under the hood”, within the marvelous engine of our mind-brain. The central idea of Visible Thinking Routines is very simple: making thinking visible.  We watch, we listen, we imitate, we adapt what we find to our own styles and interests; we build from there.

Visible Thinking-(VT) was originally developed 10 years ago, in a collaboration between Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Lemshaga Akademi in Sweden. VT is a research-based approach to teaching and thinking that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.  VT is an extensive, adaptable collection of practices that include thinking routines and documentation of student thinking. 

Presenter Christina DiBenedetto will guide participants through a sampling of  visible thinking routines embedded in a variety of instructional strategies that will make student’s thinking visible to themselves and one another so they can have a deeper understanding of content. Specific techniques for interweaving reflection and illustration as components of formative assessments will also be examined. Christina will be  attending the 1Oth Visible Thinking Conference, for educators currently engaged with the ideas of VT, which will be held at Lemshaga Akademi.

Participation in this workshop may be bundled for PDP's with other 21st Century Skills Series workshops offered by NE SABES.  Details will follow.

When

February 11, 2010 from 04:30 pm to 07:30 pm

Where

• On campus (see below)
• 45 Franklin St.
• Lawrence,MA

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Registration Deadline

Feb 07, 2010 at 12:00 AM

Topics

ABE, ESOL, GED, Curriculum Development

Contact info

Janet Piracha
jpiracha@necc.mass.edu
978-738-7304

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction

Learning objectives

Practitioners who participate in the workshop will be able to:

• Explain what is meant by "Sheltered Learning" (Sheltered Immersion Instruction),  SIOP, 21st Century Skillls;
• Integrate Visible Thinking Routines into classroom strategies facilitating  21st Century Skills development and making print content more understandable;
• Integrate reflection and illustration as a part of formative classroom assessments.

Presenters

Christina DiBenedetto,B.A., M.A., CAGS

Presenters Bio

Christina is a practitioner at the Lawrence Adult Learning Center. She presented for NE SABES at the Promising Practices Forum with rave rewiews! She has found great success and many insights using the strategies of this workshop in her own adult learner classroom, and her middle school classroom experience.

Host RSC

Northeast Massachusetts Region

PDPs

yes

Snow Date

Jan 21, 2010 at 12:00 AM