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...

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...

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...

Barbara Kruger: in her own words

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This 10-minute film explores the life and art of Alonso Berruguete, the revolutionary sculptor and painter of Renaissance Spain. Around 1506, when still a teenager, Berruguete traveled from his small town in Castile to Italy, where he...

Made in conjunction with the exhibition Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence, this 17-minute documentary explores the career of an exceptionally versatile artist. Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488) gained fame as a...

The Apollo 11 mission captivated audiences across the globe. Blastoff was a major televised event, and live broadcast of the arrival four days later, on July 20, 1969, was viewed by more than 500 million people. The source of some of the...

This film, made in conjunction with the exhibition Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, recounts the history of the relationship between the Venetian fraternal organization Scuola Grande di San Marco and the works of Tintoretto and...