If you’re familiar with the art room, you may have noticed some changes over the past year.
Our art room is transitioning to a more choice-based curriculum. Another term for this is TAB, Teaching for Artistic Behavior. TAB highlights the process of creating, over the final product. This is especially important at the elementary level.
What does a TAB student do?
TAB students are artists who experience the process of art making by taking an idea, gathering materials, setting up a workspace, creating art, and cleaning up the studio area.
What does a TAB teacher do?
TAB teachers provide mini-lessons on techniques, guide students as they explore media, provide extensions and “next steps” for student artists, plan for reflection and assessment and encourage students to display.
Simply put, the student is the artist and the classroom is the studio. Learn more at teachingforartisticbehavior.org.
The classroom is arranged into media centers (Drawing, Painting, Collage, Sculpture, as well as smaller pop-up centers). Mini lessons taught by the teacher provide techniques and inspiration but allow for student independence.
Our art room is transitioning to a more choice-based curriculum. Another term for this is TAB, Teaching for Artistic Behavior. TAB highlights the process of creating, over the final product. This is especially important at the elementary level.
What does a TAB student do?
TAB students are artists who experience the process of art making by taking an idea, gathering materials, setting up a workspace, creating art, and cleaning up the studio area.
What does a TAB teacher do?
TAB teachers provide mini-lessons on techniques, guide students as they explore media, provide extensions and “next steps” for student artists, plan for reflection and assessment and encourage students to display.
Simply put, the student is the artist and the classroom is the studio. Learn more at teachingforartisticbehavior.org.
The classroom is arranged into media centers (Drawing, Painting, Collage, Sculpture, as well as smaller pop-up centers). Mini lessons taught by the teacher provide techniques and inspiration but allow for student independence.
Feel free to ask us questions or find out more by checking out our classroom website https://oskyelementaryart.weebly.com, our facebook page www.facebook.com/oskyelart, or www.teachingforartisticbehavior.org.
Resources:
EvergreenArt.Birdsong.org
pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/Research.htm
Douglas, Katherine M. & Jaquith, Diane B., Engaging Learners Through Artmaking, Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press, 2009
Hetland, L., Winner, E., Veenema, S., & Sheridan, K., Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2007
Lowenfeld, Viktor, Your Child and His Art. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965
Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Retrieved October 5, 2009 from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences
EvergreenArt.Birdsong.org
pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/Research.htm
Douglas, Katherine M. & Jaquith, Diane B., Engaging Learners Through Artmaking, Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press, 2009
Hetland, L., Winner, E., Veenema, S., & Sheridan, K., Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2007
Lowenfeld, Viktor, Your Child and His Art. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965
Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Retrieved October 5, 2009 from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences