Developing a Visual Language
Elements and Principles of Art
What is the vocabulary artists us to communicate their ideas?
A comprehensive picture of how art has developed over time across different cultures.
What is art history?
Helps to define art education and sets appropriate rigor for particular age groups.
What are the visual arts standards?
A legal document outlining a specific diagnosis and curriculum adaptations needed to help the student be successful.
What is an IEP?
The customs, arts, social institutions and achievements of a particular nation, people or other social group.
What is culture?
Focuses on vocabulary, definitions and concepts of a visual language rather than the learner learners experiences.
What is Disciplines Based Art Education's approach to Visual language development.
`The four phases of this discipline are description, analysis, interpretation and judgement.
What is art criticism?
Statements which begin with "The Learner Will" which provide measurable goals towards reaching an enduring understanding.
What are learning objectives?
A tool used to break down a technique into specific steps.
What is a task analysis?
The unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.
What is appropriation?
Focuses on the exploration of materials and processes to develop a visual language.
What is the approach of Teaching Artistic Behavior to develop a visual language.
Providing students quality directions and frameworks so that they can use their creativity to make works of art.
What is production?
The general knowledge and skill that teachers expect students to demonstrate throughout their education in the arts.
What is an anchor standard?
Students with emotional/behavior disorders, with intellectual disabilities, with learning disabilities, and/or physical disabilities.
What are the categories of special education?
A classroom culture which is driven by student questions and curiosities.
What is a Culture of Inquiry?
-Gives students the terms to be able to plan their work.
-Provides tools and contexts to develop point of view.
-Provides a general language that allows discussion of art.
Why is it important to teach the elements and principles of art?
This discipline helps students reflect and evaluate historical, personal, or peers works?
What is art criticism?
Questions that encourage, even demand transfer beyond the particular topic in which students first encounter them.
What are essential questions?
Student environments, materials, curriculum, and classroom routines.
What areas of the art room can the art teacher change to accommodate learner's needs?
Knowing students beyond art class, body language, being involved, valuing student opinions, building resiliency
How can art teachers communicate value to students?
Modeling, offering experiences, provide opportunities to practice, make connections, and reflect
What tools can be used to teach a visual language?
Explores big questions in art relating to beauty. Theories include imitationalism, formalism, expressionism, contextualism, and institutionalism
What is Asethetics?
Summarizes important ideas and core processes that are central to art education and have lastly value beyond the art room.
What is an enduring understanding?
Student needs more access. Student wants to escape a task. Student has a sensory need not being met.
What could student misbehavior be communicating?
Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic.
What are examples of modes (multimodal) instruction?