Graded Course of Study
Dublin City Schools
6/4/12
Dublin City Schools Visual Arts Philosophy
The Ohio Revised Visual Arts Content Standards (2012) are the
foundation for the delivery of the Dublin City Schools Visual Arts Curriculum. The
standards challenge students to apply the skills learned in the visual arts to all
aspects of their lives. The Dublin City Schools visual arts teachers believe every
child is unique and capable of successfully expressing personal voice through
the visual arts. Furthermore, we believe the arts promote globally aware,
collaborative and responsible citizens. While the visual arts have their own
distinct set of knowledge, skills, and processes, the arts share common
characteristics that make arts education a powerful preparation for success in
college, career, and life.
This Dublin City Schools Visual Arts Curriculum illustrates how the
infusion of 21st century skills promotes work habits that cultivate curiosity,
imagination, creativity and evaluation skills necessary for developing college and
career-ready learners. Students who master these skills are better able to
manage ambiguity, envision new realms of possibility, express their own
thoughts and feelings and understand diverse perspectives. Students will
demonstrate an understanding of traditions, our current world and possibilities for
our future by engaging in authentic art making.
Program Goal
The Dublin City Schools visual arts program prepares students to identify
problems, think critically and create innovative solutions to open ended problems.
Additionally, the visual arts program is designed to inspire a sense of wonder
about the world we live in, to encourage the students to imagine the
unimaginable and to promote freedom of self-expression.
The goal of the Dublin City Schools visual arts program is to educate
students through a rigorous, challenging, K-12 sequential art program that is
taught by highly qualified art specialists.
The visual arts help students by teaching:
· Collaboration- Students understand the process of collaboration to
accomplish a common goal while respecting diverse ideas.
· Divergent Thinking- Students use various types of reasoning and
reflecting to critically solve problems in both conventional and
innovative ways.
· Experimentation as a form of risk taking- Students generate multiple
solutions to a given problem that are varied, creative
and innovative.
· Design process- students identify problems, research, brainstorm, analyze,
create, evaluate, and refine
· Communication-students convey their own ideas and understand the ideas
of others in a variety of contexts
· Perseverance- students build skill and mastery through hard work and
practice
· Creativity- students explore and discover personal connections to develop
new meanings, create original artwork and transform their worldview
• Initiative and self-direction- students are accountable for managing
their goals and time to improve as artists
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Students will:
· Engage in art making
· Examine the world from multiple points of view
· Expand their curiosity and persistence by experiencing both success
and failure during the art making process.
· Develop respect for creativity in others, art materials and the process of
creating art.
· Acquire essential skills specific to the art form being studied
· Become familiar with various art forms
· Communicate ideas, emotions and beliefs through personally relevant art
· Work collaboratively and independently
· Use creative and reflective thinking during all phases of art making
· Use analytical and critical thinking skills to reflect, read, write, and speak about
art and other forms of visual culture
· Know the value of the arts in shaping and reflecting cultural and historical
heritage through the study of art history
· Make connections among the arts and other disciplines
· Use technology to introduce create, perform, assess and conduct research
· Develop solutions to open-ended questions
Teachers will:
· Provide opportunities for authentic application and collaboration
· Promote critical and creative thinking
· Empower individual expression and develop student's voice through art making
· Emphasize the practical, real world applications of the art making process
· Engage students in analysis and evaluating media and visual culture
· Encourage exploration of historical, cultural and interdisciplinary connections
· Utilize critiques and other performance based assessments through current and
emerging technologies
· value student work through public and digital display.
· Introduce open-ended problems to promote divergent thinking
· Create a learning environment that encourages risk-taking though
experimentation.