When Kids Have Structure for Thinking, Better Learning Emerges

This article from KQED's "Mind Shift" series reviews teaching strategies coming out of Harvard's "ProjectZero". It reiterates the importance of teaching students how to think with specific suggestions for integrating these learning habits into the classroom. Specifically:

1. Pick one of the thinking routines Project Zero has designed and use it over and over in a variety of contexts.

2. Start asking students to be more metacognitive by building in reflection time about thinking. Ask students to think about the lesson and identify the kinds of thinking they used throughout. That not only builds vocabulary around thinking, but it often gives kids confidence to name specific thinking strategies they used.

PZ Thinking Routines from Sue Borchardt on Vimeo.