Welcome to the thinking revolution.
As we leave the industrial revolution and common knowledge grows by petabytes per day, we must prepare our students for a workplace of thinking. To help us include creative thinking in our lesson plans we have Harvard's six point Artful Thinking program.
I will start including more open questions such as How? What? When? Why? What if? and "I see," "I think," "I wonder" when exploring new topics with students.
Steve
Artful Thinking
Artful Thinking is a program developed by Harvard's Project Zero in collaboration with the Traverse City Area Public Schools in Michigan. It is an approach to teaching creative thinking that uses six routines to explore artistic works and subjects across the curriculum. These routines contain strategies to deepen art experiences.
- Reasoning: Asking, "What makes you say that?" to prompt students to cite evidence to support claims
- Perspective-taking: Asking, "What does the character (or author) perceive, know, or care about?" to understand diverse perspectives and ways of approaching problems
- Questioning and investigating: Brainstorming questions and using prompts to spark observations and inquiry (e.g., How? What? When? Why? What if? and "I see," "I think," "I wonder")
- Observing and describing: Describing and elaborating upon what you see and/or hear (e.g., imagining the artwork as the beginning, middle, or ending of a story, and/or describing formal qualities of a work of art)
- Comparing and connecting new ideas to prior knowledge: Asking questions to prompt core ideas and connecting, extending, and/or challenging core ideas
- Finding complexity: In order to uncover multiple dimensions and layers, asking questions such as, "How is it complicated?" "What are the different layers and pieces?" "What are its parts and purposes?" "What insights do you have about the topic?"
A Research-Based Approach to Arts Integration | Edutopia
