Ideas in Education: I Used to Think...Now I Think...
I Used to Think...Now I Think... is a learning strategy that encourages reflective thinking and challenges students to determine how and why their thinking has changed. In doing so, students develop meta-cognitive skills and reasoning. It can be used whenever students' initial thoughts, opinions, or beliefs are likely to have changed as a result of a learning experience.
Steps
How does it make learning visible? This assignment will help answer:
Tips:
Encourage students to think beyond the activities that they did. Discuss some possible types of answers that students could come up with. These might be skills, factual misconceptions, internal thinking/reflections (how they see themselves socially, emotionally, as learners). Also, keep this assignment open-ended and ensure that students understand this open-endedness.
Having students pay attention to how their thinking develops over time has a beneficial impact on their personal development.
This is a great assignment to wrap up the year as it will provide you with insights on the impact that your teaching has had on students and will also provide you with valuable information that you can use in the future.
This comes from Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison.
Steps
- Explain to students the learning intention is to help them reflect on their learning. I used to think...Now I think... can be used after a reading, a video, a lesson, a learning unit, or at the end of the year.
- Encourage students to reflect quietly and jot down notes to I used to think...
- Next, ask students to reflect and individually respond to Now I want you to think about how your ideas and thoughts have changed. Have them write Now, I think...
- In small groups or using whole class discussions, have students share their thinking. The advantage to whole class discussion is that you can pry deeper and get students to expand on their reasoning. Alternatively, you could meet individually with students to dig deeper.
- Depending on the purpose, you may want students to further expand on their basic writings. This could be through a vlog, reflective writing, a metaphorical representation, a visual, etc.
How does it make learning visible? This assignment will help answer:
- What misconceptions did the students have?
- It may show patterns of thinking and learning?
- Ideas can be categorized and students grouped based on their answers.
Tips:
Encourage students to think beyond the activities that they did. Discuss some possible types of answers that students could come up with. These might be skills, factual misconceptions, internal thinking/reflections (how they see themselves socially, emotionally, as learners). Also, keep this assignment open-ended and ensure that students understand this open-endedness.
Having students pay attention to how their thinking develops over time has a beneficial impact on their personal development.
This is a great assignment to wrap up the year as it will provide you with insights on the impact that your teaching has had on students and will also provide you with valuable information that you can use in the future.
This comes from Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison.
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Reading (English 11 Honors)
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Spanish Lang
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Physics I
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Lit and Comp
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Euro History and French Language
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World Geography (Skelton)
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Biology
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Earth Science (Honors)
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Calculus AB, BC
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Human Geo
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Alg 2 (DiBattista)
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English Lang
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Alg 2
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World History
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Stats
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WH2
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Biology (HMSA)
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Microecon
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Latin
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Algebra I
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Geometry (Lipscomb, Ritchie)
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US History
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W History (Mann)
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Reading (AP)
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World History (AP), Geography (AP)
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