Music
Developed in Hungary, this music education method is famous for using hand signs to correspond to solfege syllables like Do, Re, and Mi.
The Kodály Method
Developed by Bauhaus master Johannes Itten, this fundamental visual tool arranges twelve primary, secondary, and tertiary hues in a circular diagram to teach color relationships like complementary and analogous schemes.
The Color Wheel
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We are striving for a guaranteed and _____ curriclum.
VIABLE!
Derived from the German word for "schoolwork," this approach to music education—developed by the composer of Carmina Burana—combines music, movement, drama, and speech into lessons using unpitched percussion and bar-based instruments.
Orff Schulwerk
In ceramics studio safety and preparation, this manual technique involves repeatedly kneading and folding raw clay to remove air bubbles and equalize moisture content before throwing or sculpting.
Wedging
Universal Backwards Design or Understanding By Design (UBD)
In choral diction, this Italian term describes the continuous, unbroken flow of sound between vowels, achieved by holding vowel sounds as long as possible and pronouncing consonants as quickly and late as possible.
Legato or Sostenuto
Unlike direct painting, this traditional technique involves applying a thin, transparent layer of dark paint over a dry, lighter area—or a dry layer of light paint over a dark area (scumbling)—to modify color temperature without obscuring detail.
Glazing
This states that The Hamilton Art Department develops artistically literate students who create, respond, and connect to their world through art.
The Hamilton K-12 Art Vision
In Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which instrument is used to portray the grumpy Grandfather character?
The Bassoon
In printmaking pedagogy, this relief printing technique—often introduced using linoleum or woodblocks—requires the artist to carve away parts of a single matrix progressively for each color layer, destroying the block in the process.
Reduction Print
This states that The Hamilton Music Department develops artistically literate students by ensuring creativity, growth, engagement, and a sense of community through musicianship.
The Hamilton K-12 Music Vision
In Edwin Gordon's Music Learning Theory, this coined term describes the cognitive process of hearing and comprehending music in one's mind when the sound is not physically present—essentially the musical equivalent of thinking in language
Audiation
Championed in the early 20th century by sculptors like Constantin Brâncuși and Barbara Hepworth, this two-word French-derived term describes a subtractive sculptural technique where the artist carves directly into stone or wood without relying on preliminary plaster models, maquettes, or mechanical pointing machines.
What is Taille Directe? (also accepted: Direct Carving)
This is when gradebooks are set up in a consistent manner and match our standards-aligned rubrics.
Grading For Learning