artful thinking (final report) presentation

Artful & Visible Thinking

Programs developed by Harvard Project Zero

Presented by Jessica Ross

Artful & Visible Thinking Workshop Agenda

•Day One – Introduction to Routines, Research and Implications for the classroom

•Day Two – Gallery of Student Work, connections to Thinking Dispositions, Understanding Goals, Looking at Student Thinking and Assessment

Artful & Visible Thinking Today’s Agenda

• Day One – Introduction to Routines, Research and Implications for the classroom

• MYST Routine• Thinking Webs• See-Think-Wonder• Jigsaw of 6 Routines• Video of teaching practice using VT• Artful Thinking Palette• Reflection

Goal of the Artful Thinking Program

To help students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning – in the arts,

and across school subjects.

What is it?“Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them.”

Huh?

• We have routines for everything except thinking! Ideally thinking should be foremost in students and teachers minds.

• If we make it both routine and visible -- it will become so.

Uncovering Thinking

• MYST - a routine for teachers.

Connection to Habits of Mind

From A. Costa & BKallick

What is thinking?

THINKING

See / Think / Wonder

Research background: The triadic theory of dispositions

Ability

InclinationSensitivity

RRoouuttiinneess

• Perceive/Know/Care About• Claim/Support/Question• Think/Puzzle/Explore• Connect/Extend/Challenge• Parts/Purposes/Complexities• Question Starts

Routines: Practice, and pictures of practice

• Spend 15 (or so) minutes with one routine.• Do the routine - make a quick note of your

responses & share it with others at your table. • We will “unpack” your responses together and

then look at implications for teaching.

Step Inside: Perceive, Know, Care About

Claim/Support/Question

Think/Puzzle/Explore

Connect/Extend/Challenge

Parts/Purposes/Complexities

Question Starts

Artful Thinking in action: A video picture of practice

• What do you see? What makes you say that?

• See, Think, Wonder or Connect, Extend, Challenge

Which thinking dispositions?

Questioning & Investigating

Observing & Describing

Exploring Viewpoints

Finding Complexity

Reasoning

Comparing & Connecting

Reflection• Add to your thinking map:• I used to think, Now I think…

Homework• Pick one routine

that we looked at today & think of how you might use it in your work.

• Decide what type of thinking you would be looking for from you students.

Day Two

Artful & Visible Thinking Workshop Agenda

•Day Two –Gallery of Student Work, connections to Thinking Dispositions, Understanding Goals, Looking at Student Thinking and Assessment

Artful & Visible Thinking Today’s Agenda

• Day Two – Gallery of Student Work, connections to Thinking Dispositions, Understanding Goals, Looking at Student Thinking and Assessment

• 3-2-1 Bridge: Artful & Visible Thinking• Gallery Walk using See-Think-Wonder• Discussion of the use of art with Thinking Routines• Student Work & LAST Protocol• Thinking Webs and Concept Mapping• 3-2-1 Bridge & Headlines

Questioning & Investigating

Observing & Describing

Exploring Viewpoints

Finding Complexity

Reasoning

Comparing & Connecting

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 dispositions.

What do you see?What do you think about that?What does it make you wonder?

• Share your findings with another pair.

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 see?

What do you think about that?

What does it make you wonder?

SEE-THINK-WONDER

Why 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

How do concepts of thinking and concepts of art compare?

Art a shift toward a recognition of art as a complex object of meaning and inquiry

Thinking a shift from an achievement conception of thinking to an inquiry conception

Questioning & InvestigatingThink Puzzle ExploreCreative QuestionsSee Think Wonder

Observing & DescribingBeginning Middle or EndLooking 10 x 2Elaboration GameColors, Shapes, Lines

Exploring ViewpointsPerceive/Know/Care aboutUsed to think…Now I think

Finding ComplexityThe Complexity ScaleParts Purposes Complexities

ReasoningClaim Support QuestionWhat Makes you say that?

Comparing & ConnectingWord Phrase SentenceHeadlinesConnect Extend ChallengeCreative Comparisons

Artful Thinking routines

Connections Elements of TFU Framework• Generative Topics• Understanding Goals• Performances of Understanding• Ongoing Assessment

• Wonder• Consider Different

Viewpoints• Uncovering Complexity• Build Explanations• Describe What’s There• Make Connections• Reason With Evidence• Capture the Heart and

Form Conclusions

Connections Visible Thinking Moves

Connections Guided Inquiry

• What do I already know? • What questions do I have? • How do I find out? • What did I learn?

• Note – there is no mention of the teacher in these questions.

Connections Habits of Mind

• Persisting• Thinking and

communicating with clarity and precision

• Managing impulsivity• Gathering data through all

senses• Listening with

understanding and empathy

• Creating, imagining, innovating

• Thinking flexibly• Responding with

wonderment and awe

• Thinking about thinking (metacognition)

• Taking responsible risks• Striving for accuracy• Finding humor• Questioning and posing

problems• Thinking interdependently• Applying past knowledge to

new situations• Remaining open to

continuous learning

From A. Costa & BKallick

Connections to Habits of Mind

Artful & Visible Thinking

From A. Costa & BKallick

ROUTINES

Making Thinking Visible

Visible Thinking / Documentation of student thinking

Visible Thinking / Documentation of student thinking

Gallery Walk

• Tour the documentation on the wall.

• Use the LAST protocol with one set of student work.

Teacher Study Groups

Study groups:Professional growth and support

Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate

• Take you thinking maps – add to them, color code or move items, connect items.

• *If time allows, in small groups, create one concept map about thinking.

Many ways to make connections to the curriculum…

www.pz.harvard.edu/at www.pz.harvard.edu/at/cc_into_new.cfm

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/vt/index.html

Jessica Rossrabbitross@comcast.net

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