Blending Art Throughout the Curriculum for 21st Century Success

Melinda Kolkmelinda@tech4learning.com

Art educators as 21st century leaders

"To be literate in this day and age, you haveto be creative and be an artist on some

level. We are living in a very dynamic, a veryliterate, and a very aesthetic age, and you

ignore this at your own peril in terms of yourpotential for financial success."

It is time for art to step up andsay, “we are not a content area,

we are about more than self-expression, we are about jobs!”

Jason Ohler, Interview on www.thecreativeeducator.com

Art educators as 21st century leaders

"At least once a week 14% of teachers letstudents make something with technology.

63% NEVER do."

Kids want to be making!and not just in art!

A Vision of K-12 Students Todayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

Art educators as 21st century leaders

"I employ XX in art class because thestudents don't get it in their other

classrooms."

Art and design in everyclassroom, not just art.

Art educators as 21st century leaders

Creating nonlinguistic representations ofknowledge requires students to organizeand elaborate on the information. Robert

Marzano and team state, “the more we useboth systems of representation – linguisticand non-linguistic – the better we are able

to think about and recall knowledge."

Who better to teach visual skillsthan you?

Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D. J., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works:Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria, VA: ASCD

8 Studio Habits of Mind

Engage & Persist: Learning to embrace problems andpersevering at tasks.Express: Learning to convey ideas and meaning.Reflect: Learning to judge one’s own work and processand those of others.Envision: Learning to picture mentally and imagine nextsteps.Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials,conventions.Observe: Learning to attend closely.Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’scapacities and embrace mistakes.Understand Arts Community: Learning to interact asan artist with other artists.

closely mirror and support...

Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.4. Model with mathematics.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice/

Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts

Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts

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Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts

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Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts

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Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts

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Art Across the Curriculum: Math

Common Core State Standards - Math - Geometry

Grade 43. Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure asa line across the figure such that the figure can be folded alongthe line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures anddraw lines of symmetry.

SymmetryEssential Questions

How do artists use symmetry?Is symmetry beautiful?What does symmetry sound like?What does symmetry feel like?Why use symmetry to make art?

Art Across the Curriculum: Math

Common Core State Standards - Math - GeometryGrade 12. Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids,triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes(cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circularcylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from thecomposite shapeGrade 83. Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections ontwo-dimensional figures using coordinates.

TessellationsTasks worth doing

Create a tile design to be used ata local park that reflects theculture and activities that havetaken place at this location in thepast and ways it will be used now.

Art Across the Curriculum: Science

Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies

Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies

"As they consider examples of visual artworks within historical contexts, studentsgain an deeper appreciation of their ownvalues, of the values of other people, and

the connection of the visual arts touniversal human needs, values, and beliefs."

Art history, art in history,artists, and artistic styles.

Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies

Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies