Content
Standard # 2:
Using knowledge of structures and functions 5-8th grade
Achievement Standard
- Students generalize about the effects of visual
structures and functions and reflect upon these effects
in their own work
- Students employ organizational structures and analyze
what makes them effective or not effective in the
communication of ideas
- Students select and use the qualities of structures
and functions of art to improve communication of their
ideas
Content Standard # 3
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols,
and ideas
Achievement Standard
- Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal
concepts with content to communicate intended meaning
in their artworks.
- Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that
demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics
that communicate intended meaning in artworks
Content Standard # 5
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and
merits of their work and the work of others
Achievement Standard
Students compare multiple purposes for creating works
of art
Content Standard # 6b
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
Achievement Standard
Students describe ways in which the principles and subject
matter of other disciplines taught in the school are
interrelated with the visual arts.
Content Standard #1
Understanding and applying media, techniques,
and processes
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students apply media, techniques, and processes
with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity
that their intentions are carried out in their artworks
- Students conceive and create works of visual art
that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication
of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and
processes they use
Advanced:
- Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level
of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium
- Students initiate, define, and solve challenging
visual arts problems independently using intellectual
skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
Content Standard # 2
Using knowledge of structures and functions
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend
judgments about the characteristics and structures
to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other
purposes of art
- Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks
in terms of organizational structures and functions
- Students create artworks that use organizational
principles and functions to solve specific visual
arts problems
Advanced:
- Students demonstrate the ability to compare two
or more perspectives about the use of organizational
principles and functions in artwork and to defend
personal evaluations of these perspectives
- Students create multiple solutions to specific visual
arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing
effective relationships between structural choices
and artistic functions
Content Standard #3
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols,
and ideas
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students reflect on how artworks differ visually,
spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe
how these are related to history and culture
- Students apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their
artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems
in daily life
Advanced:
- Students describe the origins of specific images
and ideas and explain why they are of value in their
artwork and in the work of others
- Students evaluate and defend the validity of sources
for content and the manner in which subject matter,
symbols, and images are used in the students' works
and in significant works by others
Content Standard #4
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history
and cultures
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students differentiate among a variety of historical
and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics
and purposes of works of art
- Students describe the function and explore the meaning
of specific art objects within varied cultures, times,
and places
- Students analyze relationships of works of art to
one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture,
justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using
such conclusions to inform their own art making
Advanced:
- Students analyze and interpret artworks for relationships
among form, context, purposes, and critical models,
showing understanding of the work of critics, historians,
aestheticians, and artists
- Students analyze common characteristics of visual
arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic
groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations
of meaning
Content Standard 5
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics
and merits of their work and the work of others
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students identify intentions of those creating artworks,
explore the implications of various purposes, and
justify their analyses of purposes in particular works
- Students describe meanings of artworks by analyzing
how specific works are created and how they relate
to historical and cultural contexts
- Students reflect analytically on various interpretations
as a means for understanding and evaluating works
of visual art
Advanced:
- Students correlate responses to works of visual
art with various techniques for communicating meanings,
ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions
Content Standard 6
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students compare the materials, technologies, media,
and processes of the visual arts with those of other
arts disciplines as they are used in creation and
types of analysis
- Students compare characteristics of visual arts
within a particular historical period or style with
ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences
Advanced:
- Students synthesize the creative and analytical
principles and techniques of the visual arts and selected
other arts disciplines, the humanities, or the sciences
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