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Our Philosophy
At Skippack Elementary, our goal is to foster each child’s individual creativity through a choice-based art education. Students are encouraged to explore their own interests in and through art while developing their skills, confidence, and identity as artists.
Students in Kindergarten through 4th grade experience a modified choice-based art education. This means that students work within a specific project idea or theme while still having opportunities to make meaningful creative choices. Each child is encouraged to make their artwork personal, individual, and unique.
Students in 5th grade experience TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behavior). In our TAB classroom, students have greater independence in choosing what they want to create, the materials they want to use, and the ideas they want to explore. The art room becomes a true studio environment where students can develop their own ideas and work more like practicing artists.
Throughout their elementary art experience, students at Skippack continuously develop the Studio Habits of Mind, the ways artists think and work as they create, reflect, envision, engage, and connect.
Essentially, as students grow, our art room becomes more and more like an art studio: a place where children can explore their own ideas and interests, make creative choices, take risks, solve problems, and grow as artists.
The Perkiomen Valley Art Department provides a K-12 arts education of the highest quality for all students. The department introduces art to our beginning students to a diverse range of art making processes and helps students to build their artistic and creative skills. Advanced students are guided in improving their skills, expanding their creative vision, and contributing to society as artists.
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