PZ Pittsburgh: Creating a Culture of Thinking

Instructional design is at the heart of teaching and learning, it's also what makes it complicated and beautiful. We we as teachers design so that all of our students can learn through the content, acquire the necessary skills, and develop understandings of big ideas. Yet at the same time we have increasingly more diverse learners and growing limitations of time and context. A resource to help our students learn in a complicated environment is the integration of thinking routines.

Thinking routines have the ability to make cognition routine so that our learners have additional tools to learn across a complicated educational landscape. In this session you will explore thinking routines and pair types of routines to the type of understanding that you want for your students.