Favorite Thinking Routines
Compass Points (Harvard Graduate School of Education)-
A Routine for Examining Propositions.
E = Excited What excites you about this idea or propositions? What’s the upside?
W = Worrisome What do you find worrisome about this idea or proposition? What’s the downside?
N = Need to Know What else do you need to know or find out about this idea or proposition? What additional information would help you to evaluate things?
S = Stance or Suggestion for Moving Forward What is your current stance or opinion on the idea or proposition? How might you might move forward in your evaluation of this idea?
I will use this for the unit of Understanding Nutrition in the Family and Consumer Sciences Exploratory I class. I will have my students examine the benefits of making changes in their diet to have a healthier diet.
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Connect, Extend, Challenge (Harvard Graduate School of Education)-
A routine for drawing connections between new ideas and prior knowledge.
How is the idea or object connected to something you know about?
What new ideas or impressions do you have that extended your thinking in new directions?
What is challenging or confusing? What do you wonder about?
I will use this thinking routine in the FACS Exploratory I course during the Maslow's hierarchy of needs lesson.
Used to Think... Now I Think...(Harvard Graduate School of Education)-
A routine for reflecting on how and why our thinking has changed.
Remind students of the topic you want them to consider.
It could be the ideal itself—fairness, truth, understanding, or creativity—or it could be the unit you are studying.
Have students write a response using each of the sentence stems: • I used to think...• Now, I think...
I will have my students use this thinking routine when we study the unit on Individual Development and what influences our development.
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Think, Pair, Share (Harvard Graduate School of Education)-
A routine for active reasoning and explanation.
Think, Pair, Share involves posing a question to students, asking them to take a few minutes of thinking time and then turning to a nearby student to share their thoughts.
I will use this routine when we start our unit on kitchen and food safety. I will ask them to come up with ways to be safe in the kitchen, have them brainstorm safety concerns while working in a kitchen.
Claim, Support, Question (Harvard Graduate School of Education)-
A routine for reasoning with evidence.
Make a claim about the topic: An explanation or interpretation of some aspect of the topic.
Identify support for your claim Support: Things you see, feel, and know that support your claim.
Ask a question related to your claim Question: What’s left hanging? What isn’t explained? What new reasons does your claim raise?
FACS Exploratory I: Why is it important to keep your personal spaces clean and organized??
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Project Zero's Thinking Routine Toolbox. PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero. (2016). http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines#CoreThinkingRoutines