The Power of Making Thinking Visible

Details

This event is from Project Zero — confirm details there before registering.

Who it's for

Topics

The best way to learn a routine is to experience it as a learner!

Dive into thinking routines to deepen your own learning. Each step of the way, the instructor and study group facilitators will "pull back the curtain" on the thought process that teachers go through to use the routines to best support improved student learning and thinking. Strengthen your use of the three core practices of listening, questioning, and documentation associated with strengthening your effectiveness at making thinking visible.

Overview

• Explore both the goals and practices associated with making thinking visible, examining six specific ways that thinking routines have "power" for learners and for teachers
• Delve into two of these powers: promoting deep learning and enhancing formative assessment
• Try out core practices (listening, questioning, and documentation) associated with making thinking visible in your own classroom or learning context
• Reflect on how your experimentation with the practices can illuminate their relationship to and interaction with one another

Who Should Participate

• Teachers, teacher leaders, and school administrators and leaders
• Museum educators and educators working in informal learning environments
• Facilitators of pre-K to adult learning

Time Commitment

• Team Meeting: This 1-hour live, synchronous team meeting happens every week, scheduled and facilitated by the team members with PZ-designed agenda.
• Reading, Practice, and Assignments: Plan remaining time for reading and individual reflections/assignments. If you are not currently working in a school or educational organization, you will need a classroom context or a consistent group of students with whom you can try out/practice the ideas you are learning throughout the course.

Tuition, Discounts, and Financial Aid

• $355 for educators joining as part of a team (three to six members from the same organization)
• $385 for educators joining as part of a team of two (from the same organization) who will be placed on a virtual team with other teams of two (as attendance allows)
• $399 for educators joining as individuals to be placed on a virtual team

Questions?

Visit the FAQs page for more information on PZ online courses, or email pzlearn@gse.harvard.edu.

Co-Designer and Instructor

Mark Church works throughout the world with schools that wish to create cultures of thinking in their classrooms. He believes in the difference teachers can make for students when they strive to make thinking visible, valued, and actively promoted as part of the day-to-day experience of their learners. Mark encourages teachers to become students of their students and, more broadly, students of themselves and the choices they make to leverage the power of making thinking visible. Mark is currently a consultant with Project Zero's Making Thinking Visible and Cultures of Thinking initiatives, drawing upon his own classroom teaching experience and the perspectives he has gained working with educators across grade levels and content areas.

Together with Ron Ritchhart, Mark…

Schedule

• Session 1 — Mon, Jan 25, 2027
• Session 2 — Mon, Feb 1, 2027
• Session 3 — Mon, Feb 8, 2027
• Session 4 — Mon, Feb 15, 2027