Now every teacher can learn directly from the author of The Skillful Teacher, regarded as the

“gold-standard” of classroom practice.

MAKING STUDENT THINKING VISIBLEBy Jon Saphier, Founder and President, Research for Better Teaching with commentary by Lucy West

This new course equips teachers with high-expertise teaching skills to assure that all students meet the rigorous standards of the Common Core and acquire 21st Century skills to succeed in college and the workplace. The course builds educators’ capacity to use strategies for making student thinking visible and enables educators to engage students in meaningful ways across grade levels and content areas. In this course, teachers will learn to:

• Cultivate a robust talk environment• Ignite student discourse and extend student capacity

to manage discussions, all in support of helpingstudents make their thinking visible

• Cultivate student-led learning• Develop student confidence to speak• Give up old teaching habits that interfere with

making student thinking visible• Plan and prepare instruction that fully integrates

making student thinking visible principles intothe classroom

Legendary educator and author Jon Saphier launches a breakthrough online PD course co-developed with Knowledge Delivery Systems

RBT

Connecting to Rigorous State Standards and the Common Core

The instructional techniques presented throughout Making Student Thinking Visible support meeting the rigorous standards of the Common Core by:

• Generating deep reading of textand evidence-based writing andtalking

• Requiring students to demonstratemastery of learning

• Challenging students to utilizecritical thinking skills to justifytheir responses and explain theirprocess

• Cultivating repeated use andpractice of these skills throughactively integrating the Speakingand Listening Standards of theCommon Core

Available for CEU or graduate creditAvailable for districts, schools, and individual educators Learn More: www.RBTeach.com | info@RBTeach.com | 1.978.263.9449

“The purpose of this course is to help teachers acquire the skills to create a robust talk environment for all students…where they are all challenged and enabled to think deeply, critically, and frequently and interact out loud with one another. If educators want high-expertise teaching to be a part of their practice and get low-performing, low-confidence kids to believe in themselves, this is one of the most important skills to have in their repertoire.”

—Jon Saphier, Ed.D.

Lucy West is the founder of Metamorphosis: Teaching Learning Communities and a renowned education consultant following her work with New York City Public Schools. She is the co-author of Content-Focused

Coaching: Transforming Mathematics Lessons with European Researcher Fritz C. Staub, currently in its 2nd

edition, and co-author of Agents of Change (2013).

Jon Saphier, Ed.D., is the co-author of The Skillful Teacher, currently in its 6th edition, and seven other books. He is the founder of Research for Better Teaching, an educational professional development and

consulting organization dedicated to improving classroom teaching and school leadership throughout the U.S. and internationally.

AT THE END OF THE COURSE, EDUCATORS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Evaluate their own use of making student thinking visible in their practice• Set the stage for making student thinking visible in the classroom• Initiate operating principles that establish a safe talk environment in the classroom• Incorporate methods that develop students' confidence and capacity to manage talk• Change old teaching habits that interfere with making student thinking visible• Plan and prepare lessons reflecting the principles of making student thinking visible

SCALE RIGOROUS PD WITH JON SAPHIER ACROSS YOUR DISTRICT WITH KDS’ ONLINE PD PLATFORM AND ONLINE COURSE DESIGN

Making Student Thinking Visible provides teachers with online experiences that build a common understandingof key strategies and skills and ensure that teachers implement new practices:

• Video modeling of effective practices in authentic classrooms• Engaging teacher interviews and discussions on practice and pedagogy with Jon Saphier and Lucy West• Selected professional readings from The Skillful Teacher• A practical Application Toolkit, featuring tools and resources that help teachers move from the

online experience to application of skills in the classroom• Individualized online coaching for every teacher• Collaboration tools that allow teachers to work with coaches and peers• Anywhere, anytime personalized learning