Social Emotional Learning Core Competencies
To recognize one’s own emotions and behavior.
What is self-awareness?
Artists examine their work, ask themselves questions about meaning, and evaluate their success based on these questions.
What is reflection?
An approach that allows students to be in control of their learning through hands-on exploration and inquiry, to learn and experience their own individual unexpected results.
What is discovery based teaching?
Learning to use tools and materials well and to a desired end.
What is developing craft?
No two students learn in the same way.
What are learning styles or Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?
A connection between two points.
What is a line?
The type of skills needed to develop and maintain healthy relationships with diverse groups of people.
What are relationship skills?
TAB classrooms have many of these, each with different materials set up for students to make their own projects.
What are learning stations?
Students show what they've learned by making and creating rather than taking a test or answering questions.
What is project based learning?
To create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.
What is it to express or be expressive?
Making an art project in which you also learn key objectives in another subject matter.
What is arts integration?
A line that is closed, where one cannot deduce where it
begins or ends.
What is a shape?
The ability to make respectful choices despite being faced with frustration or fatigue.
What is responsible decision making?
Trying an alternative solution when something isn't working out.
What is problem solving?
Underserved students may face this because of their race, culture, or language.
What is implicit bias?
Art history and current art practices.
What are Art Worlds?
A hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that at the lowest level is remembering and the highest is creating.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
Refers to the surface quality. How it would feel to touch and how it reacts to light.
What is texture?
The ability to regulate one’s emotions and behaviors in different situations.
What is self-management or self-regulation?
What is collaboration?
Someone who keeps acquiring new skills and capabilities well past their formal education years.
What is a life-long learner?
None of the 8 habits of mind are more or less important than any other. They are all equally important and can be engaged in any order.
These are designed to enable students to achieve visual arts literacy and develop technical
artistic skills in grade level appropriate ways.
What are the Visual Art Standards?
Refers to the path the eye travels around a design.
What is movement?
A type of connection between two people or a teacher and a group of students that paves the way for learning.
What is emotional connection?
Looking closely to see beyond ordinary looking.
What is observation?
Reacting positively, encouragingly, and with a belief in each students' success is this key part of Culturally Responsive Teaching (Culture, Responsiveness, or Teaching?)
What is responsiveness?
Learning to picture something that cannot be observed.
What is it to Envision?
An inquiry-based teaching strategy used to encourage students to observe independently and to back up their comments with evidence.
What are Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)?
Elements that work well together in a design, typically due to having one or more elements is common.
What is unity or harmony?