Cultures of Thinking: Approaches to Teaching and Learning – Australasian Headways Cohort Meeting

How Can We Make the Invisible, Visible?

How do we know our students are thinking and how do we know they understand the concepts and skills taught in classrooms? Visible Thinking began as an initiative to develop  a research-based approach to teaching thinking dispositions in areas such as truth-seeking, understanding, fairness, and imagination ( https://pz.harvard.edu/). Thinking Routines are content-free scaffolds that guide students through thought processes. Routines invite collaborative effort and the documentation of thinking in different topics of study.

This session will consider:

• the cultural forces of routines and environment when inviting students to think with and about content
• core Thinking Routines in action
• vignettes, three minutes of a lesson – what is surprising about process and product?
• reflection and reporting back
• planning a way forward

Headways™ is a networking series presented by ICGS that provides girls’ school leaders, faculty, and staff the chance to discuss opportunities and challenges facing girls’ schools. Open to all member schools, participants meet in small cohorts for one-hour moderated conversations about prearranged, timely topics. The 2024-2025 Headways cohort listing will be published in June.