Published on 1 March 2023
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Art teachers share lessons that focus on student choice and Teaching for Artistic Behavior. Students use an everyday material to express their ideas in 2D and 3D form, experiment with digital drawing apps to alter self-portrait images through collage, engage in discussions about race and identity during a color-mixing exploration, participate in hands-on learning stations to investigate symmetry, and more.
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The Choice Issue, March 2023
The Choice Issue, March 2023
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 art-making and see themselves as part of the learning process.
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Editor's Letter: Choice
Nancy Walkup, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, dives into the history of choice-based art education and how it's used in today's art rooms.
Mayco
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Table of Contents
The Choice Issue, March 2023
Co-Editor's Letter: Choice
Co-Editor, Clyde Gaw, explores the impact of choice-based art education. Learn about the importance of child-directed learning and the Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) philosophy.
Managing the Art Room: Critique, Choice, and Connection
Explore how incorporating critique, choice, and connection can transform your art classroom. Learn strategies for fostering an artistic community that embraces valuable feedback and personal growth.
ClipCard: Ship Cozy Bear
Early childhood students create a mixed-media bear drawing with crayons and watercolor paint. Students discuss what we wear during the winter to keep ourselves warm.
ClipCard: Blind-Contour Animals
Elementary students create a blind contour line drawing of an animal of their choice.
ClipCard: Art Cat Trading Cards
Middle school students illustrate and title a cat portrait in the style of a favorite artist.
ClipCard: Inverse Objects
High-school students draw antique silverware using the inverse perspective method.
Meeting Individual Needs: TAB for All
Explore how TAB fosters inclusivity and creativity in art education by meeting individual needs. Discover how this choice-based model enhances motivation, self-confidence, and reduces anxiety, creating a welcoming environment for all students.
Assessment: Tracking Student Work
Visual arts educator, Ian Sands, discusses methods for tracking student work and engagement in art education, focusing on individualized projects and artistic processes.
Point of View: Addressing Student Behavior through TAB
Explore how the TAB approach can transform student behavior by focusing on student-directed learning and artistic growth. Discover the benefits of adopting a TAB approach and structuring curriculum around the eight Studio Habits of Mind and the Artistic Thinking process.
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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.
Prepare Yourself
High-school students respond to a series of prompts to complete a personalized mixed-media composition.
Captivated by Cardboard
When young students work with a familiar material like cardboard, it alleviates mental barriers students might have when making art. Learn how this versatile material inspires creativity and transforms art projects.
Meeting in the Middle
A color-mixing activity at a choice-based painting studio inspires discussions about race, identity, and social constructs.
Making Connections through Personal Expression
Art educator Eric Gibbons discusses how personal expression is key to students buying into the process, internalizing information, and learning beyond a superficial level.
TAB for Tiny Humans
An art teacher makes the case for TAB as the most developmentally appropriate method of art instruction for younger students.
Contemporary Art in Context: Luzinterruptus
The anonymous artist group Luzinterruptus creates large-scale installations that shed light on political and environmental issues.
Altered Image Collage
A traditional self-portrait drawing project becomes a choice-based digital collage challenge for middle-school students.
A Splash of Color
Young students collaborate to create color field paintings. Seeing the how paints overlapped and interacted, prompted students to change their ideas as the work evolved.
The Art of Mindful Eating
Explore the connection between mindful eating and art. This lesson encourages students to engage their senses through food-themed art, fostering mindfulness and creativity.
A Tactile Approach to Symmetry
Elementary students explore the concept of symmetry through hands-on learning stations and light-up manipulatives.
Focus In: Create Peace Project
The Create Peace Project promotes the practices of peace by raising the voices and sharing the visions of positive change from our youth using the arts.
The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America is pleased to announce a new M.A. in Art Education. This program prepares innovative and effective teacher-leaders who will impact future students in a variety of 21st Century learning environments. Start the process of getting your M.A. in Art Education today!
The SchoolArts Collection: Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art, is filled with lessons that will encourage your students to learn about, respond to, and create contemporary art. Organized into chapters on Identity, Social and Emotional Issues, and Collaboration, you’ll find studio lessons based on concepts and essential questions. Engage students in projects that are meaningful and discover what their voices add to the contemporary conversation.
Art Education in Practice Series from Davis
The Art Education in Practice Series is the single most comprehensive source for superior content in teacher education and professional development. Each contributor to this series is a nationally known expert on theory and practice in art education.
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NAEA National Convention 2023
National Art Education Association Convention, San Antonio, April 13-15, 2024. Hundreds of options for professional learning, connectivity, and creativity! Join visual arts, design, and media arts educators from around the world at this epic event!
Professional Development from Davis
Davis provides learning that is relevant to contemporary approaches and issues. Presented on-demand, virtually, or in-person by master teachers who are experts in the most current classroom pedagogy and the practical, discipline-specific, targeted application of research-backed content. Learn from educators who are recognized leaders with a plethora of applicable classroom successes.
Tape Art Showcase
Student artwork examples using Piktotape™. Get a box of PiktoTape™ and find lesson plans and more resources at DavisArt.com/PiktoTape.
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Media Arts Intensive from Davis
Get over 14 hours of professional development from wherever you are! This exciting virtual learning opportunity is the Media Arts content you have been looking for! Be inspired by 34 engaging sessions relevant to today’s classrooms. Learn at your own pace with access to all the content for one year.
Get Published in SchoolArts!
SchoolArts articles are written by art educators just like you! Your ideas and advice are valuable to your peers around the world! Share your successful lessons, areas of concern, and approaches to teaching art.
Kutztown University
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The Masters Artist Soap
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Touchstone Center for Crafts
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Davis Monthly Planner: Student Art Submissions
The Davis Monthly Planner showcases art advocacy through its annual cover contest, highlighting student artwork. Discover the 2023-2024 winners and honorable mentions.
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