Teaching Through Art

Curated series of tools, frameworks, demonstrations, and prompts designed especially for the needs of educators from across a variety of disciplines teaching school level learners. With an aim to encourage pedagogical methods that promote visual understanding, critical thinking, and enquiry-based learning, these tools are designed to be adapted to a wide variety of classroom needs. Through these resources we hope to build a pedagogical ecosystem where teaching through art is an everyday practice.

The tools have been organised according to the stages of learning in the classroom process:

SPARKING INTEREST

How to introduce a topic through an artwork/image? Use these tools when starting a chapter or introducing new topics to catalyse interest, cultivate curiosity, and connect pre-existing knowledge to new lessons by using an artwork or image as a prompt.

DELVING IN

How to sustain or reinvigorate interest through artworks/images? These tools will help elicit questions, encourage curiosity, and spark debate and discussion about a topic, allowing learners opportunities to dig deeper into topics of interest.

RESPONSE

How to use images/artworks as prompts for eliciting creative responses from learners? These ideas can be used as prompts for projects or assignments that learners create as a response to different topics in creative, visual, and experimental ways.

Middle School

Curious Creators

Tools for using artworks and images as prompts for eliciting creative responses from students regarding various topics along with a few examples of visual projects from classrooms from across the country.

Respond, Classes VIII – X, History

Fables of Freedom

A project idea on using artworks as prompts to write about the figures in the freedom movement marginalized in or left out of the history books.

Respond, CBSE, Class VIII, ICSE Class X, History

Battles for Freedom: 1857

A creative enquiry tool that explores the events leading up to and during the revolt of 1857.

Respond, CBSE, Class VIII, History

Tipoo: The man and the myth

A creative response guide on exploring multiple historical perspectives through artworks and archival material on the fall of Tipoo Sultan.

From The Textbook

Prescribed school textbooks often contain interesting images. Delve into the story behind some of these images and explore how they can be used as more than mere illustrations.

Delving in, CBSE, Class VIII, History

Tcharok poudjah by F B Solvyns

Teaching Through Art