Published on 14 March 2024
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Art teachers present a variety of lessons that emphasize student choice and the Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) approach. Students work in groups to create a project using unfinished artwork; participate in an afterschool TAB program based on the Studio Habits of Mind; use the concept of the lighthouse to create personal pieces that honor who or what inspires them; embrace brainstorming and media exploration through sketchbook art journals; and more.
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The Choice Issue, April 2024
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Editor's Letter: Choice
In choice-based art instruction, a project typically begins with an assigned theme or the student’s own ideas. It is up to the individual student to decide how to respond to the prompt through choice of media and content. The student is responsible for self-directed learning. Similarly, in a teaching for artistic behavior (tab) approach to instruction, the student is considered to be an artist and the classroom is considered to be the student’s studio.
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Table of Contents
The Choice Issue, April 2024
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Co-Editor's Letter: Choice
The short time that students spend in art class during the school year might be the only time they can fully experience their role as intentional artists. Personal interests and autobiographical events realized through art-making processes are potent opportunities for transdisciplinary learning. This issue of SchoolArts, focused on choice-based art education and Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), will provide readers with useful art education perspectives.
Clipcard: Primary Color Collage
How can students use art tools in different ways to create a collage? Students will create a collage by using primary colors, different lines and shapes, and printing with recycled cardboard.
ClipCard: Color Story Monoprints
How does color help to tell a story? Students will use color to complement an illustration. Color can be used symbolically, to induce an emotion, or as character code.
ClipCard: Recycled Animal Sculptures
How can students repurpose materials to make a collaborative sculpture? Students will work collaboratively to create animal sculptures using recycled materials.
ClipCard: Emotional Extraterrestrials
How can we use art to connect with ourselves and regulate our emotions? Students will learn that art can be a way for them to connect with themselves and self-regulate. Students will also demonstrate their skills with line and value by drawing an extraterrestrial creature that reflects how they are feeling at this moment.
The First Fifty
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). In 1974, Katherine Douglas introduced her two-sentence curriculum: (1) What do artists do? (2) The child is the artist. This was the birth of TAB. Although it wouldn’t be called TAB for many years, this is the definitive origin of TAB.
Much More Than Recess with Crayons
TAB is much more than recess with crayons—it’s focused learning based on the goals students are empowered to set for themselves.
A Student-Led Solution
Discover how a young student's problem-solving for their cardboard marble run sculpture inspired our TAB studio.
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Experience Art from Davis
Filled with opportunities to build critical thinking skills and choice, this brand-new middle school art curriculum for grades 7–8 is designed to help students express their ideas and feelings through meaningful artmaking and see themselves as part of the learning process.
Unwanted Artwork Olympics
Elementary students participate in an art challenge in which they utilize discarded works to create something new.
A Conversation with Karen Ann Hoffman
Karen Ann Hoffman is an artist and citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Since the 1990s, she has been creating peace, beauty, and meaning through her Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork, an art form that is unique to the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and characterized by lines of beads that arch above the textile surface.
TAB From the Heart
Young students inspire their art teacher to develop a mobile afterschool TAB program based on the Studio Habits of Mind.
Architectural Renderings
High-school students build confidence while drawing personalized surreal structures with an added visual narrative.
Contemporary Art in Context: Jen Stark
Multimedia artist Jen Stark shares her brilliantly colored works that draw upon science, math, nature, and spirituality.
The Lighthouse as a Symbol
Middle-school students use the lighthouse as a metaphor for expressing who or what serves as a guiding light in their lives.
The Art Lesson That Changed Me
When students are given agency to create their own authentic art, they are engaged, take ownership, and learn unexpected lessons as they solve problems. Students of all backgrounds and abilities can access an open-ended project such as this and gain something positive from the experience.
Choice Sketchbooks
An art class based solely on the creation of a sketchbook art journal allowed students to be evaluated on the beauty of brainstorming, playing with media, exploring ideas visually, and personal reflection.
Collaborative Learning through Design
In this collaborative choice-based art lesson, students choose one element or principle they are interested in researching and expressing through a nonobjective digital work using Google Drawings.
Papier-Smáché
Young artist transform scrap paper into compelling three-dimensional sculptures.
NAEA National Convention 2024
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The Studio Series from Davis
The popular Davis Studio Series fits art teachers’ diverse instructional needs, teaching styles, and classroom configurations while encouraging students to explore their own unique styles and interests. Titles in this studio art curriculum series include: Communicating through Graphic Design, Experience Clay, Focus on Photography, Experience Printmaking, Discovering Drawing, Beginning Sculpture, Exploring Painting.
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Tape Art Showcase
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The Mindful Studio from Davis
Throughout The Mindful Studio, you will discover centering practices to begin creative endeavors, mindfulness-based visual arts lessons with reflection questions, and lesson extensions to explore mindfulness in a variety of art modalities.
Making Artists by Davis
A comprehensive look at how and why a student-directed classroom is essential for the development of the student artist in the 21st century. Covering issues and situations choice teachers encounter as they design their program, this text provides tested methods for working through specific.
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Snapshots: Jen Stark, Multimedia Artist
View additional artworks from this issueʼs Contemporary Art in Context feature, Jen Stark shares her practice of combining color, depth, and geometry to create works that draw upon science, nature, math, and even spirituality.
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