All day: Culture of Thinking with Dr. Don Ritchart
All day October 5, 2019 – October 6, 2019
The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Learning is a product of thinking. If we want our students to learn well and develop understanding, we must create cultures of thinking that actively engage students in thinking on an ongoing basis. However, this isn't always an easy task. Schools and classrooms are not always set up to encourage thinking. Furthermore, by its very nature, thinking is a rather invisible and elusive process. How do we as teachers promote students' thinking, recognize it when it occurs, and make thoughtfulness permeate our classrooms? To create a culture of thinking, educators must work together to create a school environment whose structure and purpose actively encourage a high level of student thinking, both individually as well as collectively, and where the thinking of all group members is regularly promoted, valued, made visible, and pushed further as a part of the ongoing, shared enterprise of the group.
GOALS:
The CoT initiative considers education to be a social and cultural endeavor whose goal is the development of both the individual and the group as effective learners and thinkers able to engage with and adapt to a changing world. Within this context the most important assessment question we can ask ourselves as educators is:Who are our students becoming as thinkers and learners as a result of their time with us?
Since 2000, the Cultures of Thinking Project has worked with hundreds of public, independent, and international schools and museums across North America, Australia, and Europe to help transform schools, classrooms, and museums into places where thinking is valued, visible and actively promoted as part of the regular day-to-day experience of all group members.
During the workshop, we will focus on the practical and concrete ways educators can create a culture of thinking in their schools and classrooms, foster the kinds of thinking opportunities that lead to deep understanding of content, and how to look for evidence of student thinking and understanding. Participants will be introduced to a variety of thinking routines: what they are and how they can be used to create more thoughtful classrooms.
We will explore such questions as:
What is a culture of thinking?
How can the cultural forces that exist in each classroom support and further develop a culture of thinking?
How can educators use thinking routines to structure, scaffold, and support students' thinking?
Those attending this workshop will leave with a variety of strategies for improving learning in their classrooms that can be immediately, and widely, applied.
All day: Culture of Thinking with Dr. Don Ritchart
All day October 5, 2019 – October 6, 2019
The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Learning is a product of thinking. If we want our students to learn well and develop understanding, we must create cultures of thinking that actively engage students in thinking on an ongoing basis. However, this isn't always an easy task. Schools and classrooms are not always set up to encourage thinking. Furthermore, by its very nature, thinking is a rather invisible and elusive process. How do we as teachers promote students' thinking, recognize it when it occurs, and make thoughtfulness permeate our classrooms? To create a culture of thinking, educators must work together to create a school environment whose structure and purpose actively encourage a high level of student thinking, both individually as well as collectively, and where the thinking of all group members is regularly promoted, valued, made visible, and pushed further as a part of the ongoing, shared enterprise of the group.
GOALS:
The CoT initiative considers education to be a social and cultural endeavor whose goal is the development of both the individual and the group as effective learners and thinkers able to engage with and adapt to a changing world. Within this context the most important assessment question we can ask ourselves as educators is:Who are our students becoming as thinkers and learners as a result of their time with us?
Since 2000, the Cultures of Thinking Project has worked with hundreds of public, independent, and international schools and museums across North America, Australia, and Europe to help transform schools, classrooms, and museums into places where thinking is valued, visible and actively promoted as part of the regular day-to-day experience of all group members.
During the workshop, we will focus on the practical and concrete ways educators can create a culture of thinking in their schools and classrooms, foster the kinds of thinking opportunities that lead to deep understanding of content, and how to look for evidence of student thinking and understanding. Participants will be introduced to a variety of thinking routines: what they are and how they can be used to create more thoughtful classrooms.
We will explore such questions as:
What is a culture of thinking?
How can the cultural forces that exist in each classroom support and further develop a culture of thinking?
How can educators use thinking routines to structure, scaffold, and support students' thinking?
Those attending this workshop will leave with a variety of strategies for improving learning in their classrooms that can be immediately, and widely, applied.
6:00 pm: At what cost? Defending Adolescent Development by David Gleason
– October 21, 2019
Anxiety, depression, and their dangerous manifestations-substance abuse, eating disorders, self-injury and suicide- are increasing student conditions at many competitive high schools.
Paradoxically, most of these schools promote themselves as being committed to students’ holistic development in academics, athletics and the arts, and in their personal, social, and emotional growth. So why are so many students struggling? Dr. Gleason has investigated these concerns in competitive high schools throughout the United States and around the world, and has found almost complete unanimity in how educators and parents have responded to his interviews.
In sum, these caring and dedicated adults fully admit to over scheduling, overworking and, at times, overwhelming their students and teenaged children. This conflict – adults wanting to educate and parent adolescents in healthy and balanced ways, but simultaneously, over scheduling, overworking and, at times, overwhelming them – is at the heart of his book.
This event will be held on two days. Please choose the date that best suits your schedule.
6:00 pm: At what cost? Defending Adolescent Development by David Gleason
– October 22, 2019
Anxiety, depression, and their dangerous manifestations-substance abuse, eating disorders, self-injury and suicide- are increasing student conditions at many competitive high schools.
Paradoxically, most of these schools promote themselves as being committed to students’ holistic development in academics, athletics and the arts, and in their personal, social, and emotional growth. So why are so many students struggling? Dr. Gleason has investigated these concerns in competitive high schools throughout the United States and around the world, and has found almost complete unanimity in how educators and parents have responded to his interviews.
In sum, these caring and dedicated adults fully admit to over scheduling, overworking and, at times, overwhelming their students and teenaged children. This conflict – adults wanting to educate and parent adolescents in healthy and balanced ways, but simultaneously, over scheduling, overworking and, at times, overwhelming them – is at the heart of his book.
This event will be held on two days. Please choose the date that best suits your schedule.
Cost: $290 USD per person.Workshop fee includes lunches, a certificate of completion, and a one-year, school-wide Digital Editions license for the Choices curriculum.
Who Should Attend: This interactive workshop is appropriate for middle and high school history, social studies, and humanities teachers, including AP and IB educators.
Please join us for our general board meeting being held at Korea International School- Pangyo Campus. A hangout link will be sent to your email for those who wish to join us remotely.
Cost: $290 USD per person.Workshop fee includes lunches, a certificate of completion, and a one-year, school-wide Digital Editions license for the Choices curriculum.
Who Should Attend: This interactive workshop is appropriate for middle and high school history, social studies, and humanities teachers, including AP and IB educators.
Brown University Choices Program