Creativity in the Classroom

Instructional Approach

• provide a diverse and broad range of visual arts experiences, and ways of thinking about, learning, interpreting, and representing them
• integrate visual arts with other subjects to develop concepts and skills with meaning, coherence, depth, and competency

Instructional Approach

• focus on why visual arts learning is important, what understandings and meanings its tools and language can communicate
• explore what the visual arts can reveal about culture and identity

Teaching Strategies

• provide students with opportunities to inquire, engage in learning conversations, question, dialogue, analyze, interpret, reflect, evaluate, construct, and share meaning through multiple perspectives

Teaching Strategies

• value student voice as essential for establishing individual and collaborative directions for visual arts inquiry and learning, developing learning goals, making decisions, and building criteria for learning and assessment

Assessment

• ensure that ongoing assessment as and for learning is central to all visual arts learning to enable learners and educators to observe, give and receive feedback, revise, refine, plan, and effectively promote and achieve growth in the visual arts

Assessment

• provide students with multiple and various ways to demonstrate understanding and achievement of visual arts learning outcomes

Reference

• https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/arts/visual/framework_k-8.html
• After reading through the Arts curriculum of several provinces, I appreciated the layout and rationale behind the Arts curriculum presented by the Manitoba Government and I decided to use it as my source of information for this assignment.