Visible Thinking

Visible thinking has as purpose make that students develop the critical and creatively thinking through several routines where the students put into practice the curiosity so to know what are the attitudes that students has.

Visible thinking is possible know the attitudes of the students in such way is more easy develop programs, classes, environments that help students to increase the wish to learn English.

Into the classroom should be developed activities that serve to manage student behavior and interactions, to organizing the work of learning, and to establish rules for communication and discourse and each one this activity will help the learning students.

Thinking Routines

The visible thinking based approach to integrate the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.

Routines exist in all classrooms, because they are the patterns with which we operate and is dedicated to the task of learning and working together in a classroom environment. A routine can be thought of as any process, and establish standards for communication and discourse. Classrooms have routines that are used to manage the behavior and interactions, to organize the work of learning, classrooms also have routines that structure the way students go about the process of learning. These learning routines can be simple structures, such as reading a text and answer the questions at the end of the chapter, or can be designed to promote students' thinking, such as asking students what they know, what want to know, and what they have learned as part of a drive to study.
By Claudia Patricia Lpez & Erick Wilfredo Perdomo Meja