Ron Ritchhart - Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

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Copyright 2011 by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ritchhart, Ron, 1958- author.

Making Thinking Visible : How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners / Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison.

p. cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-91551-6 (pbk.), ISBN 978-1-118-01501-8 (ebk.), ISBN 978-1-118-01502-5 (ebk.), ISBN 978-1-118-01503-2 (ebk.)

1. Thought and thinking--Study and teaching. 2. Critical thinking--Study and teaching. 3. Cognition in children. I. Church, Mark, 1970- II. Morrison, Karin, 1951- author. III. Title.

LB1590.3.R63 2011

370.152dc22

2010049619

List of Figures and Tables

DVD Contents

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