Every time you have art class, you will receive a "Daily ATP" (Daily Artistic Thinking Process).

Art making is a combination of trying new things, failing, and practicing. The Artistic Thinking Process encapsulates a series of common artistic behaviors exhibited by all artists throughout the creative process. Our goal is to help promote them in the classroom to support creative growth.

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill

The Artistic Thinking Process (ATP) encompasses the following tasks and activities (but not limited to) that occur daily in the art studio:

• Create: Themes, Plans, Research, Sketch, Find Resource Images, Brainstorm, Idea Generation, Guiding Questions, Skill Practice, Inspiration, Explore, Observation, Self-Expression, Aesthetics, Personal Experience

• Produce: Produce Work, Analyze, Revise, Reflect, Improve, Re-think, Problem Solve, Process

• Reflect: Critique, Discuss, Revise, Document, Explain 

• Connect: Examine, Expression, Meaning, Observe

• Safety: Behavior, Expectations, Materials, Studio Space

**ATP is a daily grade, and is final.

**If a student receives an ‘incomplete’, the teacher and student will work together to brainstorm possible solutions.

Exceeds: ATP is used to work through obstacles or to bring about advanced ideas, showing skill or growth beyond what is expected, and caring for the studio.

Students:

• Are on task for the majority of the class period

• Engaged with and produced high quality work (was not rushed)

• Met all behavior expectations and/or made safe choices in the studio space and with materials

Accomplished: ATP is used to develop ideas, plan and create artwork, and care for the studio.

Students:

• Are on task for most of the class period, but require some redirection and prompting from the teacher

• Engaged with and produced quality work (has room for some improvement)

• Met most behavior expectations and/or made generally safe choices in the studio space and with materials

Advancing:  ATP is used most of the time, but parts of the process are not observable, skipped or incomplete.

Students:

• Are not on task for half or more of the class period, and required consistent redirection and prompting from the teacher

• Limited engagement with class and produced minimal work (lower quality work/rushed)

• Struggled to meet behavior and safety expectations

Incomplete: ATP is not observable or infrequently used.

Students:

• Are not on task for majority of the class period, and required consistent redirection, prompting, and additional adjustments to the classroom environment (i.e. seat change)

• Limited to no engagement with class and produced little to no work (lower quality work/rushed)

• Did not meet behavior and safety expectations

• Special Note - If you are absent from class, you will receive an 'exempt' mark for that specific calendar day in PowerSchool.