Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass Teacher)

All teachers need to read this - and all educators. This concept is an essential addition to the material those of us who wish to transform education can use to create a new education system globally. Focusing on the thinking part of developing learners, a lot of the advice and examples given also apply to developing the learner in general - in fact the book could be called 'Making Learning Visible' (I did suggest this once at a talk by the author). It is an inspiration and has wonderful examples and case studies for the working teacher.Robert ThornDirectorDeveloping Real Learners

A book packed full of practical thinking routines to use in the classroom. The thing to do is just start using them. Don't worry if you haven't finished reading the whole book yet; just try them out. Keep the book in the classroom as you may need to refer to it until you've got used to using the routines. It'll make your teaching better, make lessons easier to plan and it'll get you even further away from lazy textbook/worksheet lessons.

Excellent. Just what I/we needed to know about developing schools into something new and innovative.

Packed full of practical ideas and case studies to help teachers think through their own philosophy and practice of T&L in the classroom

Thinking skills and lesson ideas. Full of loads of really interesting concepts and ideas for the classroom. Great for teachers.

Super book if you want ideas that are explained and then exemplified with classroom examples. Needs work to turn ideas into useful additions to your classroom.

Boring, boring and pointless! As a SEN tutor I have a million of these books and this one is particularly dull and the kind of teachers presenting in the DVD are exactly why some pupils have difficulty learning!

It doesn't do what the title says at all!