Learning Outcomes

TECHNICAL ART SKILLS

  • Applies skillful usage of relevant visual art vocabulary

  • Recognizes and applies the formal elements of art and design.

  • Demonstrates an awareness of art historical movements and concepts

  • Demonstrates dexterity, control, and precision

  • Practices safe and careful use of tools and materials

  • Handles a pencil/charcoal/pen/clay/paint correctly

  • Completes the procedural steps necessary to finish an artwork

CREATIVITY

  • Practices artistic and cognitive flexibility and playfulness

  • Makes connections across ideas, subjects and disciplines

  • Creates artwork that communicates to an audience in a skillful and creative way

  • Expresses personal feelings, emotions, and social and cultural values in a unique and personally relevant way

LEARNING TO LEARN SKILLS

  • Organization of time and materials in class

  • Follows instructions of class routines and project procedures

  • Brainstorming: collecting and developing ideas into concrete visual forms, Asking relevant questions to help develop one’s work and thought processes

  • Practicing the artistic process of self-critique, self-evaluation, and editing throughout all stages of one’s work

PRODUCTIVITY


  • Autonomy: Level of independence in completing tasks

  • Time Management: Ability to plan, prioritize and meet deadlines

  • On-time: Percentages of all class assignments on time

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Cognitive flexibility: is flexible when approaching novel situations, transitions, conflicts, and changes in routine

  • Self-regulation: ability to control thoughts, feelings, and actions, understanding behavioral expectations and meeting them to achieve objectives

  • Self-awareness/ Self-advocacy: understands emotional and academic needs and can articulate them, engaging others when in need of support

  • Perseverance: able to the stay in the struggle and persist in the face of difficulty

  • Resilience: demonstrates resolve, can “bounce back” from setbacks and failed attempts

  • Citizenship: shows respect for others, their ideas, and space, displays appropriate empathetic responses

META-OBJECTIVES

  • Demonstrate an ability to engage productively with others in individual and group conversation, debate and group work .

  • Demonstrate an ability to engage and follow through in all required and choice activities.

  • Demonstrate an ability to produce creative solutions to some of the intractable problems in human society.

  • Demonstrate an understanding of growth goals as outlined in the Blooms, Skills and 21st Century rubrics.

  • Work diligently with intention to further develop in all growth goals.

  • Demonstrate deep understanding of the enduring understandings and essential questions.

  • Formulate informed answers to our essential questions. Express them in writing, discussion and other/other symbol system