Purpose and Goals
Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based
approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content
learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection
of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to
cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other,
to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity,
concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being
skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager
to take them