"Art, Ambiguity and Critical Thinking"
Leshnoff discusses the role of critical thinking in her article "Art, Ambiguity, and Critical Thinking". An art room fosters critical thinking skills and challenges students to use the skills on a daily basis. An art curriculum should include lessons and activities that encourage students to use the skills and relate their work to personal experiences. Looking at and interpreting art is another important part of the art curriculum. Interpretations may be widely different between two individuals viewing the same piece of art. "Meaning and interpretation may be based upon internal evidence and expressive content int he artwork itself" (pg. 56). The students will use narrative based on personal experiences along with objects from the image to provide evidence for their interpretations as discussed in many of the previous reading assignments from this semester.
Beattie Chapters 1 & 4
"Assessment focuses on both products and process" (pg. 6). As an art educator I find if hard to assess the process that the students go through. Students have very different ways of completing an art project. Assessment is an important part of education especially the directions we see education moving. The continuum seems to be swinging. Beattie discusses a variety of strategies for scoring and judging in the art classroom. An art teacher needs a range of tools to use when assessing student artwork. There is a "Checklist of Art Criticism Processes" in this chapter, however even with this list i believe it will still be difficult to assess the art process. There are many good tools within this chapter which might influence me to purchase this text.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that grading art is hard to do and assessing students through the process of creating is a challenge. Artists work and process so differently. I am excited to use planning sheets for students to fill out before they start their work and reflect on the same page as they are creating and finished with their work. I hope students can see how they work and where they get their ideas along with how their original ideas might deviate from start to finish.