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Artful Thinking
Agenda
• Introductions
• Looking at art: Opening Artful Thinking experience
• Artful Thinking overview
• Gallery walk
• The Observing and Describing disposition
• Curricular connections
Think Puzzle Explore routine
1. What do you think you know about this artwork?
2. What questions or puzzles do you have?
3. What does the artwork make you want to explore?
Think Puzzle Explore routine
What are some thoughts you have about this image now that you didn’t have when you first looked at the picture?
Artful ThinkingOverview
Goal of the Artful ThinkingProgram
To help students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning – in the arts,
and across school subjects.
How does it work? 5 components
1. Artful thinking dispositions
2. Artful thinking routines
3. Visual art & curricular connections
4. Visible thinking
5. Study groups – reflective professional practice
Research background: The triadic theory of dispositions
Ability
InclinationSensitivity
Which thinking dispositions?
Questioning & Investigating
Observing & Describing
Exploring Viewpoints
Finding Complexity
Reasoning
Comparing & Connecting
How does it work? 5 components
1. Artful thinking dispositions
2. Artful thinking routines
3. Artful curricular connections
4. Visible thinking
5. Study groups – reflective professional practice
Thinking Arts
Curriculum
Artful Thinking Program
How do dispositions develop?
By routinely engaging in specific patterns of behavior – by doing certain things regularly
Thinking Routines
Short, easy-to-learn procedures that help students engage in thinking-dispositional behavior in and across the six areas of the palette
What do you think you know about this image?
What puzzles do you have?
What would you like to explore?
THINK-PUZZLE-EXPLORE
Questioning & InvestigatingThink Puzzle ExploreCreative QuestionsSee Think Wonder
Observing & DescribingBeginning Middle or EndLooking 10 x 2Elaboration GameColors, Shapes, Lines
Exploring Viewpoints Perceive/Know/Care about Used to think…Now I think
Finding ComplexityThe Complexity ScaleParts Purposes Complexities
ReasoningClaim Support QuestionWhat Makes you say that?
Comparing & Connecting Word Phrase SentenceHeadlinesConnect Extend ChallengeCreative Comparisons
Artful Thinking routines
How does it work? 5 components
1. Artful thinking dispositions
2. Artful thinking routines
3. Artful curricular connections
4. Visible thinking
5. Study groups – reflective professional practice
What Artful Thinking looks like in schools
Visible Thinking / Documentation of student thinking
Visible Thinking / Documentation of student thinking
Study groups:Professional growth and support
Gallery Walk
• In pairs, tour the documentation on the wall. Spend time carefully looking at one or two exhibits. Using the palette, find examples of student thinking.
What do you see? What do you think about that? What does it make you wonder?
• Share your findings with another pair.
Questioning & Investigating
Observing & Describing
Exploring Viewpoints
Finding Complexity
Reasoning
Comparing & Connecting
Looking: 10 x 2 routine
1. Carefully observe the image.
2. Try to list 10 observations
Looking: 10 x 2 routine
1. Carefully observe the image.
2. List 10 observations
Look again, make 10 more observations.
Share your observations witha partner.
What do you think is going onin the picture?
What makes you say that?
What insight about the work did theroutine help you with?
Questioning & Investigating
Observing & Describing
Exploring Viewpoints
Finding Complexity
Reasoning
Comparing & Connecting
Observing and Describing
This disposition is about noticing and communicating impressions. Routines in this area emphasize careful and deep observation, self-awareness, and detailed description.
Why call this disposition the disposition to Observe and describe? (Why include description?)
• In order to mobilize observations– to put them to work in the service of understanding – we have to describe them to ourselves.
• Often, description is the mechanism by which observation occurs. The act of describing something causes us to look closely, look again, and look anew.
Modes of observation--the faculties through which we receive impressions.
• The senses – eyes, ears, touch, etc. – give us physical impressions
• The intellect/mind – gives us mental impressions
• The heart/ spirit/ conscience – gives us emotional, ethical, spiritual impressions
Modes of description--the different forms in which we express our observations.
– Verbal– Written– Visual– Kinesthetic– Aural
How do observation and description happen -- Where do they take place?
Observation Interpretation
Elaboration
• Image to use with continuum here
Bumping up to the big
picture: Why connect
thinking and art?• Because of how works of art
make us think
• Because of what works of art make us think about
• AT encourages curricular connections along both of these dimensions
Many ways to make connections to the curriculum…
Curricular connection: genetics
Curricular connection:Density
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Curricular connections
How might the ideas that emerged in our discussion connect to, or extend to, the school curriculum?
ResourcesArtful Thinking website: pz.harvard.edu/at curriculum connections link: www.pz.harvard.edu/at/cc_into_new.cfmVisible Thinking Website: www.pz.harvard.edu/vt
Email:[email protected][email protected]
For Info about Visible Thinking: [email protected]
Books:The Thinking Classroom, Shari Tishman, Dave Perkins, Eileen Jay
Art Works for Schools, PZ, DeCordova Museum and Underground Railway Theater
Intellectual Character, by Ron Ritchhart
DVD:Visible Thinking Routines: Pictures of Practice
*Image: Sofonisba Anguissola, Three Sisters Playing Chess
• Encouraged by her singularly enlightened father, Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1535-1625) was educated as a painter when the well-born young women of Renaissance Italy were consigned to sit in their palazzos and pursue needle work. Her accomplishments led to a life of drama and romance on a grand scale. She became a celebrated portrait painter at the court of Philip II of Spain.
• A grand love story unfolds, too, as she overcame many obstacles to win her beloved husband. She lived to a hearty old age, an international celebrity who had been praised by Michelangelo and lionized by painters across Europe
• 5 sisters, mother died young, wealthy family. Well respected artist, corresponded with Michaelangelo, prolific, went blind in old age
Don’t forgetMINI COURSE
EVALUATIONS!!
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