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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 3.6: Focal Point: How to build an active learning community?
Middle school teacher and instructional coach Kristen Kullberg discusses how thinking routines help create an active learning community in the classroom by encouraging active listening, collaboration, reflection, and intentional...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art 4.1: Intro to Questioning & Investigating: Power of Wonder
Lead Instructor Julie Carmean introduces Unit 4 of the course, Questioning and Investigating. In this unit, through videos, text, and slide decks, participants will consider what it means to question well and how to foster a learning...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 4.2: Going Deeper with Creative Questions
In this lesson demonstration video filmed at the National Gallery of Art, a group of teachers from District of Columbia Public Schools use two routines, Looking: 5 x 2 and Creative Questions, to explore a contemporary, abstract work of...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art 4.4: Focal Point: How can Artful Thinking be adapted for all?
In this video, National Gallery museum educator Meghan Lally Keaton discusses strategies for making thinking routines accessible to all leaners, including breaking routines into smaller pieces, adding movement, providing tactile...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art , 3.5: Using Beginning/Middle/End to Prompt Writing with Art
In this lesson demonstration video, language arts teacher Kristen Kullberg at Sacred Heart School, Washington, DC, first leads a What Makes You Say That? routine to encourage her middle school students to reason and speculate about...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 3.4: What’s Going on with Math in This Painting?
This lesson demonstration video explores how the What Makes You Say That? routine can be adapted to focus on curricular themes. In a National Gallery session with fourth graders from Cleveland Elementary School, Washington, DC, gallery...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 3.3: What Makes You Say That?
In this lesson demonstration video recorded at the National Gallery of Art, lead instructor Julie Carmean and a class of high school art students from Washington International School, use the What Makes You Say That? routine to explore...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 3.2: Focal Point: How do you strengthen students’ reasoning?
In this video, teachers and students talk about how effective the What Makes You Say That? routine is for helping students to support their thinking with evidence. By routinely asking two questions: What do you think is going on in this...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 3.1: Intro to Reasoning with Evidence: Making Meaning
Lead course instructor Julie Carmean introduces Unit 3, Reasoning with Evidence: Making Meaning. In this unit, participants will develop an understanding of how reasoning routines develop students’ reasoning abilities; understand how...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art , 2.5: Looking 5 x 2 with Art and Math
In this lesson demonstration video at the National Gallery of Art, Grace Bogosian, a second-grade teacher at Sacred Heart School in Washington, DC, uses the Looking: 5 x 2 routine with her students to build an inventory of their...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 2.3: Looking with Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs
In this lesson demonstration video, National Gallery museum educator Elizabeth Diament leads fourth and fifth grade students from Maury Elementary School, Washington DC, in an observing and describing routine called Looking:...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 2.2: Focal Point: Why take time to look?
In this video, Shari Tishman discusses her book Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning through Observation. She explains that taking time to observe and describe is its own form of thinking and has its own rewards and outcomes....
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 2.1: Intro to Observing and Describing: Slowing Down to Look
Lead course instructor Julie Carmean introduces Unit 2 and focuses on the importance of slow looking. In this unit, she explains that participants will build a basic understanding of the thinking disposition Observing and Describing;...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 1.6: Focal Point: Why develop thinking dispositions?
In this course video, lead course instructor Julie Carmean and Shari Tishman, principal researcher for Artful Thinking at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduation School of Education, talk about how adopting a dispositional approach to...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 1.4: See/Think/Wonder in the Museum
This lesson demonstration video is part of the National Gallery of Art’s first online course, Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art. Lead course instructor Julie Carmean engages fifth grade students from...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 1.3: See/Think/Wonder in the Classroom
In this lesson demonstration video, first grade students at Seaton Elementary School in Washington DC practice the See/Think/Wonder routine with reproductions of Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle). Classroom...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 1.2: Focal Point: Why start with See/Think/Wonder?
Lead course instructor Julie Carmean speaks with Shari Tishman, principal investigator on Artful Thinking at Project Zero in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, about why the See/Think/Wonder thinking routine is particularly...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 1.1: Intro to Thinking Routines: Diving into Artful Thinking
Lead course instructor Julie Carmean introduces Unit 1 of the course and outlines its goals. Participants will build a basic understanding of how to strengthen critical thinking using Artful Thinking Routines with works of art, develop a...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art , 0.3: Focal Point: Why Artful Thinking? A Teacher’s Journey
In this video, Tondra Odom, veteran classroom teacher and current gallery teacher in the National Gallery's Art Around the Corner program for Washington, DC Public Schools, describes her Artful Thinking journey. Tondra speaks on how...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 0.2: Focal Point: Why use art to develop thinking?
In this video, Shari Tishman, the principal researcher and developer of Artful Thinking at Project Zero in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks about the powerful ways in which art stimulates critical thinking as she answers...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art | SmithsonianX on edX
This video introduces the National Gallery of Art's first online course, Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art, available on the edX platform. Based on the museum's popular Art Around the Corner...
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Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19 – 1594) changed the face of Venetian painting. His loose, fast and furious brushwork was compared to a thunderbolt. Combining the rich colors of Titian with the dramatic muscularity of Michelangelo’s human...
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Oliver Lee Jackson: There Is No Story
Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) pursues an abstract art always rooted in the human figure. Interviewed in his Oakland, California, studio in December 2018, Jackson speaks on a range of subjects, including his working process, materials, and...