Module 3
Management of Technological Resources
for the Teaching and Administration of the
English Language (Part III)
UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio
Topic. Visible Thinking Morataya
Student: Carlos German Rodriguez
Objective: to summarize the main ideas about visible thinking and its implication in an
EFL classroom.
INTRODUCTION
Every day teachers and educators are looking for methods, system to teach, approaches
and resources to make easy every class to understand every topic by students. It is not
a easy task to teach and understand every students mostly kids and teenager.
Motivation is the key to maintain the concentration all time. The question is how can
maintain it? What I need to do it? The next research opens a door to work in that way.
Visible thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the
development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.
It has been developed by David Perkins who works in a project of Harvard University.
It is collection of practices. Practices motivate students to perform the knowledge. Visible
Thinking has two objectives. Firstly, they can cultivate abilities and dispositions to make it.
Secondly, they could learn contents easily.
WHAT IS VISIBLE THINKING
It is a way to help students make educational activities using creative ideas. Thinking is
a way of helping to achieve that without a separate ‘thinking skills' course or fixed lessons.
Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the
content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time.
Visible Thinking, which is research-based, has two goals: to deepen subject-matter
learning and cultivate students’ disposition toward thinking. To reach that goal, teachers
use mini-strategies, or thinking routines, they integrate into content learning. With these
routines, students have methods not only to connect new information to what they have
previously studied and know, but also to see how this new information challenges their
thinking. It also helps students form new questions. With Visible Thinking, it gives
students a structure to process new content.
HOW DOES VISIBLE THINKING WORK?
Visible Thinking is based seven core routines that target different types of thinking
What Makes You Say That? (interpretation with justification).
Think Puzzle Explore (sets the stage for further inquiry).
Think Pair Share (active reasoning and explanation).
Circle of Viewpoints (exploring diverse perspectives).
I used to think…Now I think (reflecting on how and why our thinking changed).
See Think Wonder (exploring works of art and other interesting things).
Connect Extend Challenge (making connections, identifying new information, and
posing questions).
In addition to these core routines, Visible Thinking includes routines on fairness, truth, and
creativity.
WHO ARE THE BENEFITERS
When a teacher is unmotivated to teach a class this is showed to students, and this affect
the good environment and relationship of the class. Everybody must enjoy the class, the
topic, all students must participate in every activities, they must be attend to do it and
when he o she is not participating should see what the other students are doing the task
in order to understand and learn every activities into the class . All of participants,
students and teacher should be motivated in order to be successful the goal of the class.
Students are very curiosity to learn , to touch, to watch something new and in that way
can be introduce the activities .
Visible Thinking is for teachers, school leaders and administrators in K - 12 schools who
want to encourage the development of a culture of thinking in their classrooms and
schools.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE RESEARCH
Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the
content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time. Here are
some of its key goals:
Deeper understanding of content
Greater motivation for learning
Development of learners' thinking and learning abilities.
Development of learners' attitudes toward thinking and learning and their alertness
to opportunities for thinking and learning (the "dispositional" side of thinking).
A shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged
thinkers and learners.
CONCLUSION
Visible Thinking benefits all students, it provides an exciting venue for students who
have not experienced success in school.
Visible Thinking further gives students with gifts and talents a means with which to
explore their ideas at a deeper level and enables teachers to provide more targeted
differentiated instruction for these.
Finally, Visible Thinking helps teachers understand how the class as a whole is
decoding information and provides a tangible way for students to interact with, and
learn from, each other.
