Visible thinking is a powerful cognitive process whereby a person’s thoughts are represented externally to support further thought and communication. It is a three-step process: 1) Develop an internal thought; 2) Externally represent that internal thought; 3) Couple those external representations with ongoing internal thoughts to support further thoughts.
I have been looking at a 2020 book by Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church titled The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to engage and empower all learners. There is a preview at Google Books.
An earlier article by Ron Ritchhart and David Perkins at Educational Leadership on February 2008, pages 57 to 61 that is titled Making Thinking Visible describes this topic, and includes the Compass Points routine that I have shown above via a PowerPoint graphic. There is a detailed collection from Project Zero of PZ’s Thinking Routines Toolbox.
Page 108 of the 2020 book shows another more detailed routine, Peeling the Fruit, which I have illustrated above via another colorful PowerPoint graphic.
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