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• Title:Creating cultures of thinking : the 8 forces we must master to truly transform our schools / Ron Ritchhart.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ritchhart, Ron, author.
  
• Published/Created:San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2015]
  

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  • Call Number: LB1590.3 .R629 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Thought and thinking--Study and teaching.
  Critical thinking--Study and teaching.
  Cognition in children.
  Educational change--United States.
  
• Description:1 volume ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted. As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning. This is something all teachers want and all students deserve. In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author of Making Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture of thinking is more important to learning than any particular curriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish this by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time, modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, and environment. With the techniques and rich classroom vignettes throughout this book, Ritchhart shows that creating a culture of thinking is not about just adhering to a particular set of practices or a general expectation that people should be involved in thinking. A culture of thinking produces the feelings, energy, and even joy that can propel learning forward and motivate us to do what at times can be hard and challenging mental work"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781118974605 (pbk.)
  1118974603 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: New Standard for Education
  Forces that Shape Culture
  Tools for Transformation
  One. Purpose and Promise of Schools
  Thinking Differently about Outcomes
  Teaching as Enculturation
  Culture as the Enactment of a Story
  Enacting Our New Story, Realizing Our Vision
  Uncovering the Story of Your School or Classroom
  Two. Expectations: Recognizing How Our Beliefs Shape Our Behavior
  Focusing Students on the Learning vs. the Work
  Teaching for Understanding vs. Knowledge
  Encouraging Deep vs. Surface Learning Strategies
  Encouraging Independence vs. Dependence
  Developing a Growth vs. a Fixed Mindset
  Exploring and Developing Expectations
  Three. Language: Appreciating Its Subtle Yet Profound Power
  Language of Thinking
  Language of Community
  Language of Identity
  Language of Initiative
  Language of Mindfulness
  Language of Praise and Feedback
  Language of Listening
  Leveraging Language
  Becoming Proficient Users of the Languages of the Classroom
  Four. Time: Learning to Be Its Master Rather Than Its Victim
  Recognizing Time as a Statement of Your Values
  Learning to Prioritize and Always Prioritizing Learning
  Giving Thinking Time
  Investing Time to Make Time
  Managing Energy, Not Time
  It's Time to Rethink Time
  Getting a Better Perspective on Time
  Five. Modeling: Seeing Ourselves through Our Students' Eyes
  Dispositional Apprenticeship: Being a Role Model of Learning and Thinking
  Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Our Thinking Visible
  Gradual Release of Responsibility: Modeling for Independence
  Interactive Modeling: Learning from Examples, Practice, and Reflection
  Learning from Models
  Modeling for the Development of Thinking, Learning, and Independence
  Six. Opportunities: Crafting the Vehicles for Learning
  Constructing Character: Using Mathematics to Understand Othello's Iago
  VoiceThread: Using Storytelling to Understand Migration
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  Categorizing, Recognizing, and Realizing Learning Opportunities
  Analyzing and Creating Opportunities for Learning
  Seven. Routines: Supporting and Scaffolding Learning and Thinking
  Routine Is More Than an Activity
  Using Claim-Support-Question to Delve Into Number Theory in Fifth Grade
  More Than a Game: Differentiating Mathematics in Second Grade
  Making CSQ Fly in Secondary Mathematics
  Tools, Structures, and Patterns: Establishing Routines in the Classroom
  Making Thinking Routine in Our Classrooms
  Eight. Interactions: Forging Relationships That Empower Learners
  New Roles for Students: Empowering Disenfranchised Learners
  Beyond Sit and Get: Teaching Students to Build on One Another's Ideas
  Building Culture through Affect and Actions
  Shaping Interactions through Roles
  Asking "Good" Questions
  Creating New Patterns of Discourse
  Promoting Interactions That Support Thinking and Learning
  Nine. Environment: Using Space to Support Learning and Thinking
  New Learning in an Old Container
  Curating a Classroom
  Designing for Thinking
  Creating Environments to Enhance Learning and Build Culture: Four Fronts
  Creating Environments That Bring Out the Best in Learners
  Ten. Moving toward Transformation
  Close Look at Substantive Change
  Supporting Change on a Large Scale
  Building a Vision across a School District
  Learning Together for the Long Haul
  Creating Opportunities
  Building the Capacity of Teachers to Teach One Another
  Using Inquiry-Action Projects to Go Deeper
  Sameness and Difference in the Journey to a Culture of Thinking.