Art at RMS

In taking a new approach to art education, it is important to examine the benefits and characteristics of the shift away from a "teacher-centric" approach, toward a more student centered approach. It is new for me and new for the students. It is abundantly apparant to me, that my students are learning in ways that have not been available to them before. They have full access to a real art studio. My students can invent and create and think and dream in a whole new way. My students make connections between their own art and the work of professional artists, past and present. They think about art outside of the classroom. They talk about their ideas, successes and failures, describe what they have attempted and why, and plan their next projects. They are the next step in the process of "What are will be".
~Nan

"ART IS IDEA, IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO DRAW, PAINT AND SCULPT. AN ARTIST SHOULD BE ABLE TO THINK" ~ Gordon Woods

(What follows was taken from The Knowledge Loom Web Site.)


Choice-based teaching and learning delivers in-depth curriculum in the context of student-centered work.

PERSONAL CONTEXT -- Choice-based art education regards students as artists and offers students real choices for responding to their own ideas and interests through art making.

PEDAGOGICAL CONTEXT -- Choice-based art education supports multiple modes of learning and teaching.

CLASSROOM CONTEXT -- Choice-based art education provides resources and opportunities to construct knowledge and meaning in the process of making art.

ASSESSMENT -- Choice-based art education utilizes multiple forms of assessment to support student and teacher growth.



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