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Carpe Diem: Seizing the Common Core with Visual Thinking Strategies in the Visual Arts Classroom
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Franco, Mary; Unrath, Kathleen – Art Education, 2014
This article demonstrates how Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) art discussions and subsequent, inspired artmaking can help reach the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects (CCSS-ELA). The authors describe how this was achieved in a remedial…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Thinking Skills, Visual Arts, Classroom Techniques
The Encounter with Art.
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Perkins, D. N. – Art Education, 1981
The perceptual encounter with works of art, after all, is the core of aesthetic experience. How well such encounters succeed for people has to be a central concern of art education. (Author)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Educational Objectives, Teaching Methods
Estimating Visual Judgments.
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Russell, Crawford L. – Art Education, 1985
Techniques that teachers can use to help art students to make an educated guess or to estimate an approximate solution while solving a visual problem that has no single correct answer are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Products, Elementary Secondary Education, Problem Solving
Questioning Strategies to Encourage Young Children to Talk About Art.
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Taunton, Martha – Art Education, 1983
Two sources provide guidance for developing a teaching strategy. The field of art criticism provides models of verbal behaviors for responding to art, and the research on classroom interaction provides models of questioning strategies. Excerpts from three dialogues between an adult and young children about painting reproductions are included. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Classroom Research, Early Childhood Education, Models
Instructional Resources: Is This Art?
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Arenas, Amelia – Art Education, 1990
Provides six lesson outlines to help teachers motivate high school students to discuss basic questions about the meaning and function of art, aesthetic responses cultural context, and artistic skill. Illustrates artwork from the Museum of Modern Art by Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Meret Oppenheim. (KM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism
What Art Teachers Are Not Teaching, Art Students Are Not Learning.
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Zimmerman, Enid – Art Education, 1984
A review of reports, a survey, and national assessments of art education shows that visual art students are not learning art knowledge and skills because art teachers do not teach art appreciation, art history, or design and drawing skills. Priorities concerning art education content and teaching methods must be changed. (RM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art History
Making Connections: A Comprehensive Look at Art.
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Berry, Nancy W. – Art Education, 1995
Presents four paintings and summarizes a discipline based art education approach to studying them. Each painting is followed by a brief text consisting of information about the subject and artist. The text also includes writing assignments, research questions, and related activities. The paintings include portraits by Goya and Joan Miro. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism