Visual Arts Preface Grades 9-12

Guiding Principles
1. The Arts are essential to the education of all students.

2. Students exercise and display multiple intelligences through the Arts.

3. Understanding of human growth and development shapes effective Arts curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

4. Comprehensive and sequential Arts programs that begin in preschool and continue throughout high school provide the foundation for life-long learning in the Arts.

5. Comprehensive and sequential Arts programs encourage learners to make multicultural and interdisciplinary connections.

6. Authentic assessment in the Arts is designed to demonstrate what students know and can do; it provides a model for assessing all complex learning.

7. Creating and sustaining high-quality Arts programs requires partnerships among all faculty and between school and community.

Habits of Mind

1. Imaginative Thinking

2. Reflective Thinking

3. Analytical Thinking

4. Heightened Perceptual Awareness

5. Organization, Curiosity and Persistence

6. Personal and Social Responsibility

7. Respect for Creativity in Others

Content
The student will:

1. Create works that show an understanding of how selective use of techniques, processes, media, and tools contributes to the communication of ideas, emotions, and beliefs.



2. Demonstrate the use of creative and critical thinking skills that enhance and advance artistic solutions.


3. Demonstate skill in the use of techniques appropriate to specific media.


4. Use time and materials purposely, and create work as an artist.


5. Apply appropriate concepts and terminology to the description, analysis, comparison, and evaluation of the work of others.



6. Produce works which demonstrate experimentation, and risk-taking in solving creative problems.

Strands & Standards
Creating & Performing
Students will:

1. Use the Arts to express ideas, emotions, and beliefs.

2. Acquire and apply essential skills and literacy unique to each art form.






Thinking & Responding
Students will:

3. Use imaginative and reflective thinking during all phases of creating and performing.

4. Use analytical and creative thinking to respond to works of art.





Connecting & Contributing
Students will:

5. Investigate the cultural and historical contexts of the Arts.

6. Integrate the Arts and make connections among the Arts and other disciplines.

7. Use technology in order to create, perform, and conduct research in the Arts.

8. Participate in the community's cultural and artistic life.