Thinking Routines for Introducing and Exploring Ideas
Help students build causal explanations regarding the relationships between the smaller parts of an object or process and why they may be essential to the function or purpose of the whole.
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Invites learners to examine an idea or proposition from multiple perspectives as well as develop insight as to where there are "gaps" in their understanding with regards to the varying perspectives.
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Encourages learners to think and learn by more fully observing and noticing complex images, artifacts, or text prior to formulating interpretations or conclusions.
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Thinking Routines for Digging Deeper Into Ideas
Encourages learners to critically examine claims. By identifying and probing claims with thoughtful scrutiny, students go beyond agreeing or disagreeing to determine the validity of statements.
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Invites learners to develop thoughtful interpretations by encouraging them to reason with evidence. Students learn to identify truth claims and can explore strategies for uncovering truth as well.
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Designed to help students understand how to build capacity in a self-directed learning process by developing actionable learning plans around their own independent inquiry.
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Thinking Routines for Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas
Encourages learners to stop seeing each class and learning opportunity as an isolated experience. Instead, learners may be taught how to:
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Encourages learners to make careful observations and thoughtful inferences based on a given data display. This routine is also meant to stimulate curiosity and set the stage for student inquiry. Students can learn how to develop questions that may be pursued over the course of a unit
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Teaches students to examine what they know about a topic and build concept maps to develop important connections between what they know and what they are learning.
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In what ways are you helping students understand what to think about when truly making meaning of and connecting their understanding to a bigger picture? Share your ideas to have them added here.
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Vista High School Resource Toolkit
Vista High School
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One Panther Way, Vista CA 92084
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760-726-5611
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