visual arts lesson planning zoom in…planning for action one lesson at a time
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Visual Arts Lesson Planning
Zoom in…Planning for action One lesson at a time
Art Lesson Plan Format
Makes your teaching and student learning visible.
PARTS
1. Information
2. Learning Goals & Standards
3. Assessment
4. Instruction
5. Reflection
Information
What?– Pat Pinciotti– Cohort 3 - Grade 1– Lesson 2 - Color
Exploration– February 1, 2007
Where?– At the top left hand corner of
lesson
– Single spaced
Why?– Identification
Learning Goals & Standards: Where can I find ideas for Art? National Standards#1: Understanding and applying media,
techniques, and processes #2: Using knowledge of structures and
functions (elements & principles of visual organization)
#3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
#4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
#5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
#6: Making connections between visual
arts and other disciplines
PA State StandardsCategories
Production, Performance and ExhibitionHistorical and Cultural ContextsCritical ResponseAesthetic Response
Develops & IntegratesApplication of Problem solving skillsExtensive practice in the comprehension of basic symbol systems and abstract conceptsApplication of technical skills in practical production and performanceComprehension and application of the creative processDevelopment and practice of creative thinking skillsDevelopment of verbal and nonverbal communication skills
Learning Goals & Standards: Writing Learning Goals
What do I want students to LEARN?
What artistic choices must they make?
Learners Profile
Who are the children in your class?
Identified Learners Learners
Struggling Learners
Advanced Learners
Assessment: Valuing Creative WorkMaking learning visible Method
– Product or Process to Assess– What does excellent work look like?
Tool– What criteria are you valuing in the work?
Accommodations and/or Enhancements
Assessment: Linking Goals and Criteria
Learning Goals Tool identifies the Criteria for Success
How will you discriminate between…– Good Enough– Better than good
enough– Not good enough
Instruction: Making Teaching Visible
SCRIPT INSTRUCTION - What are you saying/doing?
Materials - Preparing for success Motivation - Sensory Awareness & Artistic Inspiration Explanation of Learning/Project (short) Demonstration - Model artistic thinking and creating Guided Practice - Develop craftsmanship and
creativity together Independent Practice - Challenge and clarify
individual artistic choices Application - Summarize learning and usefulness Modifications – Accommodations or enhancements
to ensure success for all learners
Instruction: Materials
Art Supplies Artifacts Media/Images
ZOOMING IN CLOSER….
Instruction: Motivation-Inspiration
AWAKEN Sensory Awareness Artistic Inspiration LOOK! AT ART!!
Instruction: Explanation
Explanation of Learning Description of Art
Exploration
“Today …. (k.i.s.s.)
Instruction: Demonstration
Model artistic thinking
What are you saying? Model creative work
What are you doing?
Instruction: Guided Practice
Develops craftsmanship – Imagine a brilliant example? – Visualize your goals for learning? – Stretch student’s knowledge and skills
Nurtures creativity – What artistic choices are you encouraging? – What are you saying to scaffold?
Instruction: Independent Practice Clarifies and explains
individual artistic choices– Critical and Creative Thinking
Questions
Challenges and stretches individual artistic choices – What ideas are you adding?
Instruction: Application
Summarizes learning What did we learn? Explains the usefulness of learning How can
we use this learning? Extent of Learning How have you expanded
critical and creative thinking in the students?
Instruction: Modifications
Ensure success for all learners Where and how did you make accommodations or enhancements?– CONTENT: What you want the
students to learn– PROCESS: The way students
make sense of the content– PRODUCT: The outcome at
the end of instruction
Reflection: Growing out loud What makes this an effective lesson?
What would you change to make it better?
What impact did you have on student learning? Is this important? Why?
What have you learned as a teacher?– About art? Children? Learning? Teaching?