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What happens when the normally private, hidden and undefined act of thinking is transformed into one that is public, available and explicit?

When one considers the question, what should I give my students so that they can become more creative more independent thinkers? The answer is not immediately obvious.

We might agree that we need powerful teacher interventions for effective and early assessment. We might also want to improve the quality of interactive teaching.

And there will also be the need to ensure that cooperative learning remains focussed on the learning that we wish to take place.

But how is all this to be achieved?

Over the years visual tools have been shown to be one of the most effective way to raise attainment. But it has also become clear that in order to get the very best results they need to be used systematically.

To answer all these issues we've produced a volume that takes on all these issues and gives wholly practical, classroom based answers.

The volume, Eye Q and Thinking Skills, is in fact a complete lexicon of visual tools. It covers seven different areas: Structural, Representational, Differential , Causal , Numerical, Organisational, and Temporal visual tools.

The whole purpose of the book is to enable you to see the students thinking, and so show what happens when the normally private, hidden and undefined act of thinking is transformed into one that is public, available and explicit.

• Author(s): Oliver Caviglioli, Ian Harris, Bill Tindall