HOW THE ARTS CAN THRIVE IN THE ERA OF ACCOUNTIBILITY

The Fine Art of Common Core

Bell Ringer: Draw a Map of the Route you took to get here.Criteria: That someone could use it to follow that route.

Collaborative Pairs: Because Learning is Social

Think Pair Share

Find someone who took a different route to our location today.

Discuss: How is our map-making activity similar to LEARNING?

Where are we going? How will we get there?

1.The destination has changed. Therefore, we must change course.

2.We have to start somewhere! Where am I?

3.It’s great to have some traveling companions. I call shotgun!

4.We don’t all have to take the exact same route in order to get to the same place.

What are the Pathways to the Common Core?

“Because the standards are the roadmap for successful classrooms, and recognizing that teachers, school districts, and states need to decide on the journey to the destination, they intentionally do not include a required reading list….”

-from the Common Core website

The Common Core is not perfect, but…

Good teachers have always made the best out of the situation at any given time.

Can the arts be used to teach

Common Core?

Can the arts be used to teach

Common Core?

Essential Questions (Wawa 20)

What is your WAWA 20?

1.“I can’t draw.” -- Realism is not the only style that there is.

STYLES2. “I don’t know what to make.” --And, “Why can’t I just plagiarize?”

CREATIVITY & SYNECTICS3. “How can that be art?”

AESTHETICS & ART HISTORY4. “How do they DO that?!!!

TECHNIQUE

It’s Everyone’s job to teach Language.

Vocabulary, Vocabulary,Vocabulary!

“There are too many standards.” -Marzano

The current PA Standards for Art

Discipline-based Art Education• Art Production• Art History• Aesthetics• Art Criticism

The current PA Standards for Art

What is the process of Art Criticism?

• Describe• Analyze• Interpret• Evaluate

The Common Core: How can art teachers help?

CRITICAL WORDS:There are 55 words that if students understand. (Not just remember the definition, but they can do them). Researchers say that this understanding is 85% of the success in taking the new tests.

Improving the systems of low-SES children:• Arts improve

cognitive skills , processing, attention and sequencing

• Physical activity• Music

The best way to learn vocabulary is through conversations.

Critical Vocabulary

What are the CRITICAL WORDS?

• Describe• Analyze• Interpret• Evaluate

The Common Core: How can art teachers help?

CRITICAL WORDS

• Describe• Analyze• Interpret• Evaluate

ART CRITICISM

• Describe• Analyze• Interpret• Evaluate

What does it mean to describe?

de·scribediˈskrīb/1. give an account in words of (someone or something), including all the relevant characteristics, qualities, or events.

What does it mean to describe?

Parson Weems’ Fable by Grant Wood

a·nal·y·sisəˈnaləsis/noun

1.noun: analysis; plural noun: analyses2.detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation.

What does it mean to analyze?

What is the focal point? How can you tell?

How has the artist used repetition?

What does it mean to interpret?

Ask, what is the artist trying to communicate? Try to explain the meaning or mood of the work, based on your clues from the first two steps. You can make guesses about the artwork as long as they are supported by details you see in the work. Gather information about the artwork for more clues. How will we decide what is relevant contextual information?

Parson Weems’ Fable by Grant Wood

What does it mean to interpret?

What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that?

Are kids using evidence for interpretation, anchored in details from the image?

Is there evidence that supports their claim?

Are they making logical inferences?

What is explicit? What is implicit?

What does it mean to interpret?

What is the tone? (The attitude of the artist?)

The Common Core is here. What is the Core Shift?

2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from texts, both literary and informational.

What does it mean to evaluate?

What is Art?

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.1Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

Cite details to support your answer.

“Canyon” by Robert Rauschenberg

My students made their own “combines” inspired by Robert Rauschenberg. They also wrote artist’s statements about what they were expressing in their artwork using symbolic use of color and objects and imagery as symbols.

We put their artwork on our class blog. Our blog post received a comment from a very special visitor: Christopher Rauschenberg!

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.

Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?

Vocabulary –

“If they can’t draw it, they don’t know it.”

-Merilee Sprenger

• It will never be the focus of what we do.

• It should be used as an assessment for us to judge that they have learned what we taught.

• Conventions are not our prime concern and we should not correct for that.

How much writing should we be doing in art class?

The Common Core is here. What is the Core Shift?

1. Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language.

Vocabulary at the Core

“…but I’ve never deeter-mined before!”

It is better to summarize than it is to memorize.

The Top Five Research-Based Strategies to maximize learning (Thompson, 2014).

1.Higher Order Thinking2.Summarizing3.Vocabulary in Context4.Advance Organizers5.Non-verbal Representations

Answer the Essential Question using vocabulary from this lesson.

How do artists use color theory knowledge to mix and blend colors?

What kind of writing should be done in an elective class?

Essential Question:

Can you answer this question --

--using these words???

The Common Core is here. What is the Core Shift?

3. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction.

CC.1.3.8.ECompare and contrast thestructure of two or more textsand analyze how the differingstructure of each textcontributes to its meaning and style.

CC.1.3.8.ECompare and contrast thestructure of two or more textsand analyze how the differingstructure of each textcontributes to its meaning and style.

CC.1.2.8.JAcquire and use accuratelygrade‐appropriate generalacademic and domain‐specificwords and phrases; gathervocabulary knowledge whenconsidering a word or phraseimportant to comprehensionor expression.

The Common Core is here. What is the Core Shift?

1. Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language.

This is a text and there are different ways to “read” it.

This is a text and there are different ways to “read” it.

1. Intuitive criticism.

2. Contextual criticism.

3. Formal analysis.

What is the main idea (focal point) and how do the details emphasize or draw attention to it.

E. Recognize and identify types of criticalanalysis in the arts and humanities.• Contextual criticism• Formal analysis• Intuitive criticism

PA Standards Arts and Humanities

How do we assess this?

The Common Core is here. What is the Core Shift?

Reading, writing, speaking, and listening should span the school day from K-12 as integral parts of every subject.