What+happens+in+art+class?

What happens in art class?
Young artists come to the art room for 45 minutes a week. Each class time could include: At the end of class, we clean up to the __Clean-Up Anthem__ by art teacher [|Greg Percy].
 * 1) **//Art Learning Time,//** when we learn about artwork, artists and cultures. We do this through looking, talking, singing, playing games and using technology.
 * 2) **//Art Making Time,//** when artists get to apply what they have learned to a piece of their own work. Artists are always free to take incomplete work home to extend their art making time.

Young artists may bring home some work throughout the nine weeks. Most work is kept in the student's portfolio for grading at the end of the nine week period. After review by the students and the teacher, the portfolio with all creations by the student is brought home each nine weeks. Work does not need to be returned to school. Young artists also record their learning in an //Art Journal// which they will bring home at the end of the school year. Read more about portfolios at //What do grades in art mean?//

Kindergarten through third grade classes experience many types of learning in art. Class projects are designed using the PA Standards for the Arts and Humanities, our district's art curriculum, and the [|state model visual arts Standards Aligned System curriculum].

Fourth, fifth and sixth grade classes follow a [|Teaching for Artistic Behavior] model. Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is a nationally recognized choice-based art education approach to teaching art. Developed in Massachusetts classrooms over thirty-five years, and through courses and research at Massachusetts College of Art, the TAB concept enables students to experience the work of the artist through authentic learning and assessment opportunities and responsive teaching.

Choice-based art education regards students as artists and offers them real choices for responding to their own ideas and interests through making art. Choice-based art education supports multiple modes of learning and assessment for the diverse needs of students. [|Read about a K-5 art classroom using TAB.]

Choice-based teaching and learning delivers in-depth curriculum in the context of student-centered work. Given broad responsibilities and high standards, young artists are able to organize their reality into vigorous images. Classrooms are arranged as studios, and the effective organization of space, time, and materials enables students to create work which is individual and compelling. On the [|choice continuum], our 4th, 5th and 6th grade classes are near-full choice. Each nine weeks, a mix of teacher- and student-designed projects help students achieve the state arts standards.