| The Artful Thinking program takes the
image of an artist’s palette as its central metaphor. Typically, a
palette is made up of a relatively small number of basic colors which can
be used and blended in a great variety of ways. The artful thinking palette
is comprised of 6 thinking dispositions – 6 basic colors, or forms,
of intellectual behavior – that have dual power: They are powerful
ways of exploring works of art, and powerful ways of exploring subjects
across the school curriculum.
The Artful Thinking palette comes alive through the use of “thinking
routines.” Each thinking disposition has several thinking routines
connected to it. Thinking routines are short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies
that extend and deepen students’ thinking and become part of the
fabric of everyday classroom life. They are used flexibly and repeatedly
-- with art, and with a wide variety of topics in the curriculum, particularly
in language arts and social studies.
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