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the theme and apply it in everyday life. This children Were able to create such deep connections
with real experiences that resulted in a collective learning that remained in them.
The use of each one of these tools allows the student to experience a very enriching
process where he or she has the opportunity to find their own answers while maintaining the
desire to explore further. The teacher similarly acts as a facilitator, guiding each step of this
process, but not directing.
A very important task of the teacher is to document the children's thinking, thus making it
visible. The teacher captures the thinking of children, through the use of these tools, and makes it
visible through writings created by children and photographs taken by the teacher.
Thinking Routines
Thinking routines are tools that are used in the
Visible Thinking program from Harvard University, and that
Edu1st has incorporated into its VESS model. They are
called routines because they are exercises that are used over
and over again at different [Y\