Project Based Learning and Thinking Routines Mash Up!

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Cultural Force of Routine: Four Types

Routines are intentional moves and questioning strategies that scaffold students’ thinking in the moment as well as providing tools and patterns of thinking that can be used independently. In Creating Cultures of Thinking, Ritchhart also states that well-functioning classrooms have four types of routines: management, instructional, interactional, and thinking. Historically, a majority of time in classrooms has focused on management and instructional routines. Management routines help classrooms run smoothly and instructional routines are rooted on how a teacher delivers the information. With the focus more on controlling students and content delivery, student thinking and learning are not highly valued with management and instructional routines.