This document discusses using art and visual thinking routines to engage students in English language teaching. It presents 5 themes that can be used for art-based projects on topics like bullying, hope, and war/peace. It also introduces several visual thinking routines that use open-ended questions to help students analyze and discuss artworks more deeply, including routines focused on noticing details, making inferences, and considering different perspectives. These routines are meant to increase student engagement, understanding, independent thinking, and learning while discussing content through visual art.

1. Images on Canvas:
Art, Creativity & Critical Thinking in ELT
Chrysa Papalazarou, eflteacher, blogger

2. Art in the English ClassProject
5 Themes
Bullying
Hope
War/Peace
Asperger’s & Autism
School

3. Visible Thinking
Engagement
UnderstandingIndependence
Learning Content
Thinking
Routines
Thinking
http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/

4. Questioning
Listening
Documenting

5. Thinking Routines
• Setofquestions/shortsequenceofsteps
• Individual,small-group,whole-groupwork
http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/

6. Listening/Sharing

8. Look for 30”
Guernica, Pablo Picasso

9. Make a list of 10
words or phrases
about any aspect of what you
see

10. Look for another30” Guernica, Pablo Picasso

11. Add 10 more
words or phrases
about any aspect of what you
see

12. Looking 10×2
Guernica, Pablo Picasso

15. See-Think-Wonder
What do you see?
What do you think about it?
What does it make you wonder?

17. Perceive
Believe
Care About
Step inside: you are the boy in the middle of
the painting.
What can you perceive?
What might you believe?
What might you care about?
Children’s Games (detail), Pieter Bruegel the elder

19. What’s going on?
What makesyou say that?
Bullying, Matt Mahurin

22. Some more routines

24. Beginning-Middle-End

25. Beginning
End
Middle

26. Chrysa Papalazarou
http://artleast.blogspot.gr
http://1stchaidarienglish.blogspot.gr
Thank you!