Circle of Viewpoints
This thinking routine focuses on perspective taking. Click to read about how I paired it with a kindness act to build on our capacity to identify different perspectives.
Documenting
Choosing what to document and how says as much about the teacher researcher as it says about the learner thinking and ideas surrounding a given investigation.
Think, Pair, Share
This core thinking routine gets daily air time in my classroom. Read on to find out how I first introduce it with scripted interactions in the target language.
See, Think, Wonder
Supporting emergent speakers to express their wonderings in French is a complex task. Thinking routines help make this easier for learners because they become just that, routines!
Translanguaging Towards the Target Language
In French immersion, teachers feel the impulse to translate everything a learner says into the target language. Don't skip the journey & jump right to the destination.