Visual Arts Education
Visual Arts Education inspires students to perceive and shape the visual, spatial, and aesthetic characteristics of the world around them. Using a variety of ways to explore, learn, and communicate, students develop their capacity for imaginative and reflective thinking. Visual arts is a continuously evolving field that includes the traditional “fine arts” of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture; the design fields including ceramics, and graphic design, and the technologies such as film, video, digital imaging, digital photography and other new media.
Georgetown Middle High School
21st Century Expectations for Student Learning
Academic
The successful student will be...
1. Skilled communicators with a deep understanding of concepts who are able to use effective literacy and reasoning skills to convey complex ideas, construct viable arguments, and create effective solutions.
2. Critical and creative thinkers who strategically apply reading, analysis, synthesis, and reason while working cooperatively and independently.
3. Able to solve problems and communicate arguments by integrating and evaluating information presented in diverse media formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Civic
4. Students will be responsible, involved, and contributing members of their school and community.
Social
5. Students will be reflective thinkers who appreciate divergent cultures, and diverse experiences as contributing members of their school and community
The successful student will be...
1. Skilled communicators with a deep understanding of concepts who are able to use effective literacy and reasoning skills to convey complex ideas, construct viable arguments, and create effective solutions.
2. Critical and creative thinkers who strategically apply reading, analysis, synthesis, and reason while working cooperatively and independently.
3. Able to solve problems and communicate arguments by integrating and evaluating information presented in diverse media formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Civic
4. Students will be responsible, involved, and contributing members of their school and community.
Social
5. Students will be reflective thinkers who appreciate divergent cultures, and diverse experiences as contributing members of their school and community
Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Frameworks
The Curriculum Framework provides a structure intended to guide the selection, development, and evaluation of arts curriculum and programming that builds students’ artistic literacy. It primarily does this through the Standards of Artistic Practice, specifically the development of artistic ideas to:
- create original work aligned to the artist’s intent,
- present or perform artistic works to others,
- respond to the structure and context of artistic works, and
- make connections about the impact of the arts on oneself, history, and culture.