In the book Making Thinking Visible, Ritchhart et.al. explains that:
When schools take on a mission of cultivating students' thinking and enculturating the habits of mind and dispositions that can support lifelong learning, the issue of how students construe thinking and their general metacognitive awareness comes to the fore.
It's one thing for us as teachers to articulate the kinds of thinking we are seeking to promote; it is another for students to develop a greater awareness of the significant role that thinking plays in cultivating their own understanding.
(page 15)

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WHAT IS THINKING?

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The team at Project Zero developed a concept map that educators could use as a platform for launching a discussion about what thinking is and the kinds of thinking that would be emphasised in classrooms.
There are two questions asked of learners during this task:

• • What is thinking?
  • When you tell someone you are thinking what kinds of things might actually be going on in your head?

Concept Map in Action (examples):
Below are two examples given in the book for what students in Year 4 and Year 6 believe thinking is.

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