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I have less than one week until I attend the Get Your Teach On conference in San Antonio. I'm super excited! In the meantime, I started reading the book Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. I'm only on chapter two, but I'm already loving the authors' message about thinking and learning. My favorite two sentences are, "When there is something important and worthwhile to think about and a reason to think deeply, our students experience the kind of learning that has a lasting impact and powerful influence not only in the short term but also in the long haul. They not only learn; they learn how to learn." These sentences are so powerful to me. I want my students to learn how to learn so they become more independent learners who have the ability of managing their own thinking actions. This is what Anne and I want for our students--to become life long learners.
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| I love this book!!!! |
From what I have read so far, it is important to these authors that students are actively engaged in their learning and not just passive recipients of knowledge. This seems to go right along with what I will be learning in San Antonio. How perfect!
In upcoming chapters the authors share many activities and strategies we can use with our students to help them think about how they are thinking, choose the most effective way of thinking for the task at hand, and make their thinking visible.
Ok, I'm signing off so I can get back to reading! I will share more soon.
Kim
