Date

Faculty
None (Dr.Rogers Format
Member

went in hospital
day or two
before, so we
met for the first
time for 1hr in
OBB in a room
she had reserved
3/26/2015 for us)
In Person

4/16/2015 Hoaglund

4/20/2015 Birkenfeld

4/20/2015 Hoaglund

Discussion Topics

We discussed the first two chapters of

Making Thinking Visible. We also
discussed the 6 key principles to making
thinking visible, such as the importance of
classroom culture.

In Person

We discussed the importance of

questioning. We developed our own
"Cycle of Thinking" which describes how
asking good questions gives students the
opportunity to think deeper and ask more
questions. We discussed some of the
strategies in chapters 3 and 4. We
brainstormed about how we could
incorporate some of the strategies into our
lesson plans for our units.

In Person

We discussed chapters 5 and 6 of Making

Thinking Visible. An important topic of
debate was that teachers be clear with
directions whie also allowing room for
creativity.

Digital

We discussed the final two chapters of

Making Thinking Visible. We brought up a
variety of topics and discussed the
importance of developing classroom
routines.We also discussed how teachers
must listen well to students and model
good thinking and listening skills.

Where

OBB

Panera

OBB

Google Hangout