Visual

Art

Other SubjectsProject Based Learning Integration

One of the components of 21st Century Learning Skill currently focused, applied and practiced in the Elementary Visual Art Class, Lincoln School.

Inventive Thinking: • CURIOSITY• CREATIVITY •RISK TAKING

Application of the Terms in Visual Art Class:

•Curiosity to stimulate and spark, interest, attention and desire to know.

•Creativity to bring something into existence that is genuinely new and original

•Risk Taking by willingness to be unconventional and bold, such that one's personal growth as a young artist is enhanced.

Why? • Letting their innate nature to bloom to be self

directed learners • To EXPLORE the complex world around them

without putting pressure on their capabilities • Retaining lifelong learning about the world

around them.• Aiming to develop confident, skilled,

creative, risk takers to discover and invent to change their lives and of the world in the future.

Where do I begin?Teaching Art and being a Creative Artist • Language level • Learning Stage • Focus and interest • Instructions, plans and flexibility• Learning and developing technical skills• Sufficient guidance and positive feedback• Creating original work

Why through Visual Art? It empowers children to communicate ideas that words and numbers cannot always help them adequately to express.(Grade 2: Self- Portrait: Lines and shapes/ color contrast and interests)

Why is integration necessary?To create ‘out of the box thinkers’ to increase cognitive capacities of children to make connections to other subjects and relate to real life experiences.

Grade 3: Integration Language Art/ Social Studiescover for the ‘Wild Island’ travel brochure .Art skills: Texture/ recycled paper collage/ overlapping/ contrast/ negative and positive space/ cut and paste/ Ref. Henri Matisse’s work - PowerPoint presentation

We can create Inventive Thinkers just by integrating a simple subject matter:

Art History and

Culture ‘Day of the

Dead’

Mexican Mural

Integration: High

School Spanish Class

Benefits from curiosity, creativity and risk taking: • We retain and learn by making interconnections. • There is no guess work about whether the

connections have been made by the students, the connections will be clear.

• It strengthens skills that the students encounter in one content area by practicing in another, while learning different skills and techniques enhance the subject matter.

• The students will know how to transfer their acquired knowledge to other contexts

• Individual abilities and interests are discovered

Students’ Phases:Plan work showing lines/ shapes and colorsTechniques Believe in their abilitiesIn the Process:Work to reach goalsFlexibility is welcomed Interest in their workTeach themselvesHelp othersSeek help when neededUpon Completion:Evaluate their workUnderstand that hard work is the successHave positive self-images of themselves as learnersUse what they have learned to adapt tonew situations

From the scraps ‘A Community’

Result:

Curious + Creative + Risk Takers= Inventive

Thinkers

What do the children say?Do you like art ?Yes.Why do like art?Because it is fun.Why do you think it is fun?You get to create what you want to.How do you create what you want to? (Thinking)From my mind.

Where does tech come in?

MASKS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, FAMOUS ARTISTS, PAINTINGS

AND MANY MORE:Technology makes the

tasks easier.

Hope to collaborate

technology in Visual

Art in the future!

Digital grayscale printouts to study

value!

Students Who Are Personally Creative: Exhibit Innovation and Risk-Taking• Produce original, unique, and cogent ideas, phrases, and products • Exhibit expertise in at least one domain• Take risks and excel despite mistakes Are Intrinsically Motivated• Exhibit curiosity, inquisitiveness, wonder, and excitement • Are flexible and adaptable• Become immersed in challenging learning for intrinsic reasons • Tolerate ambiguity well and respond with spontaneity and

ingenuity

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• Students Who Are Risk-Takers:• Are willing to tackle challenging tasks, even when

success is uncertain• Choose tasks involving reasonable or intermediate

risk rather than excessive risk• Share and advocate ideas they believe in, even

when those ideas are unconventional• Are willing to hold their work or thinking up to

critical appraisal and amend thinking when successfully challenged

• Are willing to be incorrect and willingly take on tasks that might result in errors

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Evidence of Learning Taking Place

Just a beginning!

Reading: • enGauge 21st Century Skills Cheryl Lemke, CEO, Metiri Group

Ed Coughlin, Senior Vice President, MetiriGroup

Dr. Vandana Thadani, Associate, Metiri Group

Crystal Martin, Research Associate, Metiri Group

Metiri Group 1801 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 426

Los Angles, CA 90067 http://www.metiri.com

Video “Do schools kill creativity?”http://

www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66

• Creativity Links by C. Osborne • This page links to great resources on creative thinking. • Creativity Pool • This is a database of creative and original ideas.

Submit your own or check to see if someone else has thought of the same thing.

• Creative Problem Solving from Burris Laboratory School, Muncie, IN

• This page highlights six steps in creative problem solving.

• Creativity Web from C. Cave • This page contains ideas on linking creative thinking

to critical thinking and multiple intelligences.

• Techniques for Creative Thinking • Edward de Bono's

Methods & Concepts of Lateral Thinking • This page provides an overview of deBono's

ideas about creativity. Here you can also learn about the Six Thinking Hats by S. Labelle .

• Introduction to Creative Thinking by R. Harris from VirtualSalt

• This page compares critical and creative thinking and discusses the myths of creative thinking.

Read on:•Encourage Student Thinking with Questions•Writing Objectives for Lessons in Drama Class•Using the Cognitive Domain to Include Rigor•Teachers Can Improve Student Participation•Low-Prep Differentiated Activities•Guide for New Teachers