Fine Art Curriculum Map Fine Art Curriculum Outline National Standards

• Visual Arts
  The Clayton Fine Arts Department believes that Visual Arts is an essential aspect of every child'south didactics. Visual Arts at every class level instructs students to call back creatively and critically and exposes them to diverse cultures through all periods of history.  It accomplishes this in office by allowing students to have "hands-on" experiences in the creation of many forms of Visual Art. It is our goal to assistance students understand that art and design accept a vital function in society and to develop an private sense of aesthetics. Start in kindergarten and continuing through high school, students accept the opportunity to feel all forms and genres of Visual Art.

  Music
  The Clayton Fine Arts Department believes that music is an essential attribute of every child's education. Music is a uniquely human quality, inherent to all individuals regardless of lodge, culture, or generation. Students must have opportunities to study music in the way that serves them all-time. Experiencing a variety of vocal and instrumental music propels lifelong learning, develops character, engages human emotion, and promotes critical and creative thinking within the private, the customs, and the globe.  Beginning in Kindergarten and continuing through high school, students have the opportunity to experience music through voice, band and/or orchestra.

  Theatre
  The Clayton Fine Arts Department believes that Theatre is an essential aspect of every child'south education. Theatre is an art of synthesis.  It gives students, both individually and collaboratively, the opportunity to develop empathy and to explore varied cultural experiences and universal themes of humankind.  Using the dramatic process (creating, performing and analyzing), students learn to see the created world of theatre through the optics of the player, playwright, designer, and director. They develop skills to sympathize dramatic structure, which is primal to the literacy of all great globe literature. Theatre provides for a educatee'southward cocky-discovery, cocky-definition, and cocky-esteem. (Text is based on the Arizona Theatre Standards and Practices.)

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  Listed below are the Enduring Understandings of the Fine Arts curriculum.  These are statements that summarize important ideas and core processes that are central to a subject field and have lasting value beyond the classroom.

  Enduring Understandings

  (Based on www.cpalms.org)

  Creativity
  

  Creating, interpreting, and responding in the arts stimulate the imagination and encourage innovation and creative hazard-taking. The structural rules and conventions of an fine art form serve every bit both a foundation and departure bespeak for inventiveness. The arts are inherently experiential and actively engage learners in the processes of creating, interpreting, and responding to art.

  Critical Thinking and Reflection
  

  Cognition and reflection are required to capeesh, interpret, and create with artistic intent. Assessing our own and others' artistic piece of work, through critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making, is central to creative growth. People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism (National Visual Arts Core Standards). The procedure of critiquing the arts leads to development of critical-thinking skills transferable to other contexts.

  The Arts and Culture

  The arts give us the ways to sympathise the circuitous cultural relationships between all peoples. The arts reflect and document cultural trends and historical events, and help explain how new directions in the arts have emerged. Connections amid the arts and other disciplines strengthen learning and the ability to transfer knowledge and skills to and from other fields. Every art form uses its own unique language, exact and non-exact, to document and communicate with the earth.

  Essential Skills, Techniques and Processes

  Development of skills, techniques, and processes in the arts strengthens our ability to remember, focus on, process, and sequence data. Through purposeful do, artists learn to manage, master, and refine uncomplicated, then complex, skills and techniques. These skills oftentimes culminate in performances and/or exhibition of work.

  

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