Week 4: Chapter 4

Chapter 4 : Routines for Engaging With Ideas

Chapter 4 gives us six thinking routines for engaging with ideas! Most of these routines foster an opportunity for movement through the class, discussion with peers, visuals, and interactive dialogue as a class. These six thinking routines are:

• Questioning Sorts
• Peeling the Fruit
• The Story Routine: Main-Side-Hidden
• Beauty and Truth
• NDA: Name-Describe-Act
• Take Note

"I suppose in the past, I was afraid I wouldn't know what to do with students' questions if I weren't completely in charge. I think I am finally getting the idea of what my role can be in creating a thinking classroom. I have to believe in what my students can do!"

Chapter 4 Reflection Tasks: 

1. Are you familiar with any of these thinking routines? How are these thinking routines engaging scholars with ideas on a deeper level than activities or discussions you typically have with scholars?

2.Which of these thinking routines are you planning to put into practice with your scholars?

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