Analogous inspiration: Process on display at Smitten Ice Cream
Smitten makes ice cream on demand. Using special liquid nitrogen-powered ice cream makers, they serve intensely creamy ice cream minutes after the ingredients are mixed together. For Smitten, the process is as important as the end result.
The walls tell the story of the ice cream: how founder Robyn Fisher invented the machine, how the machine works, and why liquid nitrogen. Using this real-world example of displaying the process of a final product, how can we support learners in their exhibitions or as they work on projects to ensure they are making visible the process of learning and creating?
Source: Co-Designing Schools Toolkit Equitable Learning Practices
Graphic Organizers
Source: Around the Kampfire
Graphic organizers can help support students’ thinking AND they can make that thinking visible. The support learners in thinking through the pieces of a whole that get them to a final result.
Using a KWL graphic organizer helps build metacognition and organize their thinking throughout the learning process.
Manipulatives
Learners at Hampton Middle School use cards to make their thinking visible by putting different synonyms with their vocabulary words.
Write on the Walls
Write on the Walls (or individual whiteboards)
Use individual or group white boards for learners to write out their thinking.
Learning Galleries
Turn your hallways into exhibitions of learning.
Publicly displaying quality student work creates an environment that models learning. Learning becomes more visible & a source of pride. Learning galleries model and celebrate the learning process as well as the product and communicate to the school community that learning is valued.
School as a living museum: Display Work
View transcript for video here.
When you walk through the halls of any High Tech High campus, you are absolutely surrounded by student work. There are whole-class projects, individual assignments, and quick expressions of ideas and work that culminates in extensive projects. The work fills the atmosphere with creativity and energy, and the students move through the spaces proudly. Curating student work around the school building makes learning visible throughout the year.
Analogous inspiration: Process on display at Smitten Ice Cream
Smitten makes ice cream on demand. Using special liquid nitrogen-powered ice cream makers, they serve intensely creamy ice cream minutes after the ingredients are mixed together. For Smitten, the process is as important as the end result.
The walls tell the story of the ice cream: how founder Robyn Fisher invented the machine, how the machine works, and why liquid nitrogen. Using this real-world example of displaying the process of a final product, how can we support learners in their exhibitions or as they work on projects to ensure they are making visible the process of learning and creating?
Source: Co-Designing Schools Toolkit Equitable Learning Practices
