Visual Art

2021-2022

Creative and Critical Thinking in the

Visual Art Classroom

Welcome to our website, designed to support you throughout our 2021-2022 Visual Art Cluster Day. Here you will find all of the resources and materials that we will experience today.

Schedule for the Day



We are learning to foster a culture of creative and critical thinking in the Visual Art Classroom.


Session 1

Breakout room discussion

How might the artist/maker/designer have used drawing to support their process?


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Session 2


Visual Sharing Space

Please click the link below relating to the workshop to access a Padlet page that you can use to upload your work.

Alternatively you can use a QR scanner to scan the QR code.

Session 3


This interview was given by Bill Lucas - Centre for Real-World Learning, University of Winchester (England,UK) - at the OECD conference “Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in School: Moving a shared agenda forward” on 24-25 September 2019 in London, United Kingdom.

Creative Habits of Mind

Adapted from the work of Lucas, Claxton and Spencer


Adapted from the work of Lucas, Claxton and Spencer 2013

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Creative Habits of Mind

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Practice with Purpose

Empathy Mapping

Flow of Ideas

A.D.A.P.T

5 Whys

G.R.O.W