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.
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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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