Art at Edison

A Choice-Based Art Education

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Completing our 1st unit of study: Observation of art and the natural world, looking at pattern....

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Upcoming News! Original Works orders due by Oct. 7th!

Original Works is coming this fall, in time for your child's artwork to become a wonderful holiday gift! Order forms and artwork will be send home by the end of September. This fundraiser will support the added cost for printing student photographs this year. Thank you for supporting our art program!

Things we could use in the art room........Thank you!

Plastic milk containers, legos, and other interesting items are welcome!
Still would love more found objects for creating sculptures! Keep the art room in mind before recyling!
Interesting texture items such as chains, wooden spools, etc. for making texture in clay as well as making prints with.
Interesting shaped objects for found object sculptures
Button down adult shirts for painting

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Ms. Kelly Mansfield: Denver, Colorado; I have been a certified Art Educator for 13+ years and I am lucky to have taught a wide range of ages and educational backgrounds. I am thrilled to be able to bring choice-based art education to the students at Edison Elementary! I have been inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach, Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), and the writings of Mihaly Csikszentmihaly regarding creativity and the human experience. Keeping myself open to the human experience inspires my own art.

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Teaching for Artistic Behavior

http://teachingforartisticbehavior.org

In the choice-based art studio.....

Students can: Work at their own speed, work from their strengths, learn from and work with peers, develop a working style, use what they know to show what they know, engage in positive social interactions, take responsibility for care of materials and centers.

Teacher can: Observe students working independently to determine strenghts and weaknesses, offer special "scaffolding" to struggling students, get to know students well through their very individual personal styles, expect students to come to class highly motivated and ready to work.

The classroom provides: Time, space, materials, instruction and spirit.
(excerpt from Kathy Douglas, "Teaching for Artistic Behavior")

Colorado Academic Visual Art Standards and the 21st Century Skills

Visual Arts Standards that inspire instuction:

1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend. The visual arts are a means for expression, communication and meaning making.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect. Visual arts recognize, articulate, and implement critical thinking through the synthesis, evaluation and analysis of visual information.

3. Invent and Discover to Create. Generate works of art that employ unique ideas, feelings, and values using different media, technologies.

4. Relate and Connect to Transfer. Recognize, articulate, and validate the value of the visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience.

21st Century Skills in Visual Arts:

1. Critical Thinking and Reasoning.
2. Information Literacy.
3. Collaboration.
4. Self-Direction.
5. Invention.

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