learning outcomes

TECHNICAL PHOTOGRAPHY SKILLS:

• Applies skillful usage of relevant photography and visual art vocabulary

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

• Demonstrates an awareness of movements and concepts from the history of photography

• Demonstrates dexterity, control, and precision

• Practices safe and careful use of tools and materials

• Uses camera equipment correctly in order to achieve desired outcomes

• Completes the procedural steps necessary to complete a photographic assignment

CREATIVITY:

• Practices artistic and cognitive flexibility and playfulness

• Makes connections across ideas, subjects and disciplines

• Creates photographs 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

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