Standard 2A: Understands and uses key concepts, underlying themes, relationships, and different perspectives related to the content area.
Title: Engaging Learners Through Art-making
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Reflection: There is currently a wave of change happening in best practices in art education. Discipline-based Arts Education (DBAE) is being replaced with Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). Rather than focusing on mastery of materials and techniques, TAB focuses on thinking and responding like an artist. I have been reading the book Engaging Learners Through Art-Making by one of the founders of the movement, Katherine Douglas and have been very focused on adopting TAB strategies this past year.
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Standard 2B: Uses knowledge of student development to make learning experiences in the content area meaningful and accessible for every student.
Title: National Arts Standards
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Reflection: This year I had a student in 8th grade that was Level 3 SPED and functioning at about a Kindergarten to 1st grade level. The beauty of my set up for MS is that it was very easy to create modifications for her. MS students create artwork at their own pace by following the steps in the creative process that correspond to the NCAS standards. Each standard is broken down into a grade band view. When this student completed each step, I used a standards based grading scale to see if she was able to meet the K-1 benchmarks to grade her. Since the steps are the same from K-12 it was very easy to modify and she was completing the same tasks as her peers. I was able to merely adjust my assessment accordingly.
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Standard 2C: Relates ideas and information within and across content areas.
Title: Artistic Behavior Rubrics
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Reflection: One of the eight categories that students are graded on for each project is Artists Make Connections. Students must explain how their work relates to themselves, other artists, visual culture, or other subjects. I have had students create artwork that is related to books they have read in English, coding, medieval history, and much more.
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Standard 2D: Understands and uses instructional strategies that are appropriate to the content area.
Title: Engaging Learners Through Art-making
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Reflection: There is currently a wave of change happening in best practices in art education. Discipline-based Arts Education (DBAE) is being replaced with Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). Rather than focusing on mastery of materials and techniques, TAB focuses on thinking and responding like an artist. I have been reading the book Engaging Learners Through Art-Making by one of the founders of the movement, Katherine Douglas and have been very focused on adopting TAB strategies this past year.
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