the rubrics aim to help teachers be more systematic and intentional about the teaching and learning of creativity andor critical thinking the examples of lesson plans provided to the project teachers included a mapping of the different steps of the lesson against the subskills of the conceptual rubrics teachers were requested to do the same for their own lesson plans at least those they submitted to their local project coordinator before possible further transmission to the oecd building a professional language around creativity and critical thinking actually requires more than just good definitions and descriptors of the skills to develop