--- product_id: 4198900 title: "Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass Teacher)" price: "VT9025" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4198900-making-thinking-visible-how-to-promote-engagement-understanding-and-independence store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass Teacher) **Price:** VT9025 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass Teacher) - **How much does it cost?** VT9025 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4198900-making-thinking-visible-how-to-promote-engagement-understanding-and-independence) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon. Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies The book also directs readers to online videos that demonstrate how Visible Thinking works in real classrooms. Review: Excellent resource for my students' biggest learning blocker! - **SHORT VERSION** This book provides two things every busy teacher needs: 1. A deeper understanding of how to make the invisible parts of thinking more visible -to both students and teachers. 2. Actionable student activities, grouped for different phases of learning: introduction, processing, and digging deeper into content. I wouldn't recommend this book for the teacher who is simply looking for quick tools for lesson planning… the activities are not complicated, but a deeper explanation is needed to learn them and to make optimal use of them. However, if you are an educator that wants to better understand how to build better THINKERS, this book is a must! **CONTEXT OF MY USE** I've spent the last four years volunteering as a curriculum coordinator for a hybrid (online/in person) learning program (well before Covid). The director and teachers could see a lot of gaps in their pre-existing curriculum, so they asked for my assistance in finding better options. To my surprise, the task was much harder than expected because nearly every curriculum program (regardless of subject) has a major flaw… one that this book addresses in great depth and with great utility! Most programs (regardless of whether they are software or text-based) follow the same pattern: 1) Deliver new information 2) Give writing assignments (or, for math, assign problems) Yet, over and over (and over…) again, students smash into the same brick wall… they freeze at the writing assignments because they are still trying to *process* the new information. We started coaching students to understand, "Writing happens in two phases, first you must determine WHAT you want to say, then you must determine HOW you want to say it." The problem is… they don't really understand the difference between these two phases… until we give them a graphic organizer. Then, one-by-one, their faces light up as they see how the graphic organizer helps them sort through new information… with zero burdens of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and minimal burden on language. Instead, they are free to focus mostly on ideas before transferring those ideas into language. So, we've been supplementing our curriculum with graphic organizers. But, we've long known that there is room here for deeper instruction. (SIDENOTE: For math, we've seen significant improvement from using graphic organizers to help students learn the terminology/vocabulary for each unit!) "Make Thinking Visible" caught my attention because I had been using this phrase with my students, "We have to make the invisible, visible." And, as noted above, it has delivered with comprehensive insights into how to provide more explicit guidance on how to think about thinking. Review: Seeing Inside Students' Minds - How many times have you wished you could open up a child's head to see what he's thinking and how well he understands content you're working with in class? Visible thinking strategies can help you with that, providing a window into a students' thinking so that other students and you can better follow their reasoning and explanations. Visible thinking can be used with virtually any age of student or any subject matter, making these strategies extremely useful and worthy of use in your classroom. The book is well written and easy to read, with clear explanations and examples of how strategies have been used in a wide variety of classrooms. These strategies can be immediately employed in your classroom, no matter when in the school year you begin, so you won't need to wait for a new term in order to get started. If you want to have a better understanding of what goes on in students' heads, I recommend this book. It would be a great book for your professional learning community's focus, too. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #64,071 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #28 in Educational Psychology (Books) #254 in Behavioral Sciences (Books) #391 in Instruction Methods | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 748 Reviews | ## Images ![Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass Teacher) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71WVCy2jk0L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent resource for my students' biggest learning blocker! *by S***S on November 15, 2022* **SHORT VERSION** This book provides two things every busy teacher needs: 1. A deeper understanding of how to make the invisible parts of thinking more visible -to both students and teachers. 2. Actionable student activities, grouped for different phases of learning: introduction, processing, and digging deeper into content. I wouldn't recommend this book for the teacher who is simply looking for quick tools for lesson planning… the activities are not complicated, but a deeper explanation is needed to learn them and to make optimal use of them. However, if you are an educator that wants to better understand how to build better THINKERS, this book is a must! **CONTEXT OF MY USE** I've spent the last four years volunteering as a curriculum coordinator for a hybrid (online/in person) learning program (well before Covid). The director and teachers could see a lot of gaps in their pre-existing curriculum, so they asked for my assistance in finding better options. To my surprise, the task was much harder than expected because nearly every curriculum program (regardless of subject) has a major flaw… one that this book addresses in great depth and with great utility! Most programs (regardless of whether they are software or text-based) follow the same pattern: 1) Deliver new information 2) Give writing assignments (or, for math, assign problems) Yet, over and over (and over…) again, students smash into the same brick wall… they freeze at the writing assignments because they are still trying to *process* the new information. We started coaching students to understand, "Writing happens in two phases, first you must determine WHAT you want to say, then you must determine HOW you want to say it." The problem is… they don't really understand the difference between these two phases… until we give them a graphic organizer. Then, one-by-one, their faces light up as they see how the graphic organizer helps them sort through new information… with zero burdens of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and minimal burden on language. Instead, they are free to focus mostly on ideas before transferring those ideas into language. So, we've been supplementing our curriculum with graphic organizers. But, we've long known that there is room here for deeper instruction. (SIDENOTE: For math, we've seen significant improvement from using graphic organizers to help students learn the terminology/vocabulary for each unit!) "Make Thinking Visible" caught my attention because I had been using this phrase with my students, "We have to make the invisible, visible." And, as noted above, it has delivered with comprehensive insights into how to provide more explicit guidance on how to think about thinking. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Seeing Inside Students' Minds *by M***S on February 12, 2012* How many times have you wished you could open up a child's head to see what he's thinking and how well he understands content you're working with in class? Visible thinking strategies can help you with that, providing a window into a students' thinking so that other students and you can better follow their reasoning and explanations. Visible thinking can be used with virtually any age of student or any subject matter, making these strategies extremely useful and worthy of use in your classroom. The book is well written and easy to read, with clear explanations and examples of how strategies have been used in a wide variety of classrooms. These strategies can be immediately employed in your classroom, no matter when in the school year you begin, so you won't need to wait for a new term in order to get started. If you want to have a better understanding of what goes on in students' heads, I recommend this book. It would be a great book for your professional learning community's focus, too. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful and the Kindle version needs one more thing *by T***D on September 6, 2012* This work is the continuation of the Harvard Project Zero which is all about teacher children to think and make them aware of their own thinking. More importantly, classroom instruction changes in a significant way. The thinking routines force the teacher out of the telling mode and places the highest value on understanding students. Absorption of information is not king any longer. Whether intentional or not, this work goes hand in glove with the work of adaptive schools. Completely changes the classroom! Now the Kindle edition has a major problem. The authors constantly refer to the companion DVD and there isn't one. There should be a link to videos on-line so all versions of this book have the same content. It's like the publishers need to read the book and think some more! ## Frequently Bought Together - Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners - The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners - Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4198900-making-thinking-visible-how-to-promote-engagement-understanding-and-independence](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4198900-making-thinking-visible-how-to-promote-engagement-understanding-and-independence) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-11*