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3 Steps for Using Art Prints to Rigorously Address Standards and Meet Goals
In this post, we’ll explore 3 steps to using art prints to meet goals in your classroom through arts integration.
How Teaching Artists Can Better Understand Educational Standards
We don’t use standards to build a script for educators. We’re trying to ensure that all students work towards the same goals. Standards are what we want students to know at different grade levels. We created them so that no student is left behind. The lesson plan, teaching, and curriculum are how we meet those standards.
Understanding Visual Perception as a Process Component of Visual Arts Education
This post is about merging two concepts, that really aren’t different at all but that sometimes aren’t connected in our thinking: visual perception as part of our daily lives and PERCEIVE as a Process Component in the Visual Arts standards. Being able to PERCEIVE is part of what an artist needs to be able to do. When we use arts integration in your classrooms, our students need to be able to PERCEIVE, or pay very close attention to details in their own works and in the works of others. This spills over into everything else we do as human beings, though.
