Project Zero Perspectives: Making, Thinking, Understanding

This course focuses on today’s learner. Participants will be invited to contrast traditional notions of learning with one informed by closer attention to the eight cultural forces in the classroom identified by Ron Ritchhart in Making Thinking Visible. The course will highlight these cultural forces, while also exploring the elements of a tool called the Understanding Map, which gives direction for teachers and students on a learning journey. Stops along the map will provide an opportunity to deepen our understanding of how learners learn and become more open to taking risks.