The 8 Cultural Forces
The List of the 8 Cultural Forces
With descriptions of how each affects student thinking.
With descriptions of how each affects student thinking.
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Self-Assessment Questions:
Additional Resources for Evaluating:
- Time Do you purposefully plan time for self-reflection at different phases of learning?
- Opportunities Do you strategically plan and provide opportunities for students to engage in self- reflection and peer reflection as part of their ongoing experience in the classroom?
- Routines Do you utilize scaffolds and prompts to support the development of self-reflection capabilities in your learners?
- Language Do you use the language of self-reflection in order to provide students with the vocabulary to be able to describe and reflect on their own learning?
- Modeling Do you intentionally model your own self-reflections using think alouds so that your thought processes are shared and made visible?
- Interactions Do you engage in thoughtful conversations and learning conferences with students about their learning?
- Environment Do you consider how the environment supports and fosters self-reflection on learning (static vs. interactive displays, layout)?
- Expectations Do you focus on the value of constructive and critical reflections that help to drive learning forward?
Additional Resources for Evaluating:
- Assessing a Culture of Thinking through the 8 Cultural Forces
- The Development of a Culture of Thinking in My Classroom: Self-Assessment
- Protocol to use when observing another classroom and worksheet to use as you observe, Looking at the Cultural Forces
- Student survey: "In this class period we spend most of our time..."
- Student survey - likert scale questions
- Me, You, Space, Time reflection tool
Shaping Group Culture
How each force works to shape group culture - slightly different from the above definitions. |
The 5 Belief Sets for Educators
Belief in a growth mindset, encouraging independence, and more. |
Cultures of Thinking in Action
10 Principles: this page details why each of the principles matter and what they look like in practice. Summary graphic below. |
How Do We Build Understanding?
Understanding and Supporting Thinking
Details on the 3 specific types of thinking: Reasoning with Evidence, Connection Making, and Perspective Taking.
Details on the 3 specific types of thinking: Reasoning with Evidence, Connection Making, and Perspective Taking.
Reasoning with Evidence
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Making Connections
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Perspective Taking
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The Language of the Classroom
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A Typology of Classroom Questions
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Ron Ritchart's web page that provides several student surveys, including some for assessing
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Examples of applying the 8 Cultural Forces to SAT prep
Environment: Displaying Thinking
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Modeling: Show Our Own Thought Processes
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