Visual Arts Education:

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Visual Arts Education

• A Method for Teaching
• 21st. Century Skills
• Nancy Sojka Decorah, IA
• Webmaster and Board Member of IAAE
• Webmaster and Board Member of AEI
• Retired Visual Art Teacher--Pre-School through 12
  
• North Winneshiek Community
  School

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Visual Arts Education A Method for Teaching 21st
Century Skills

• Which 21st century skills are addressed in visual
  arts education?

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Visual Arts Education A Method for Teaching 21st
Century Skills

• Which 21st century skills are addressed in visual
  arts education?
• How does visual arts education address these
  skills?

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Visual Arts Education A Method for Teaching 21st
Century Skills

• Which 21st century skills are addressed in visual
  arts education?
• How does visual arts education address these
  skills?
• Which visual arts classroom strategies
  incorporate these skills?

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Which 21st century skills are addressed in visual
arts education?

• Focus Employability Skills

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Which 21st century employability skills are
addressed in visual arts education?

• Critical Thinking and Problem-solving
• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Leadership and Responsibility
• http//www.21stcenturyskills.org

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Which Visual Art Education Strategies address and
incorporate these skills?

• Employability Skills
• Visual Art Strategies Teaching Artistic Behavior

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Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Skill Think independently
• Strategy Choose materials, layout, arrangement,
  and....

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Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Transfer insights to new contexts
• Create an artwork about an event or object in
  your life

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Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Develop ones perspective creating or exploring
  beliefs, arguments, or theories
• Choose a theme, choose a point of view, choose a
  subject

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Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Clarify and analyze meanings of words or phrases
• Participate in critiques, interpret anothers
  ideas in new materials

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Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Question deeply raising and pursuing root or
  significant questions
• Why is this artwork valuable, or not?

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Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Make interdisciplinary connections
• Applying understanding from Science class to a
  painting or from a painting to English class

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Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Make inferences, predictions, or interpretations
• Its sticky! Its too wet!
• I made purple! I mixed a little blue into the
  red paint!

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Creativity and Innovation

• Make connections and see relationships
• Draw from observation, arrange scrap papers in
  patterns

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Creativity and Innovation

• Review progress, invite and use feedback,
  criticize constructively and make perceptive
  observations
• In the classroom or in the gallery

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Creativity and Innovation

• Imagine, see possibilities, ask what if?
• Answer open-ended questions about materials,
  techniques

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Collaboration and Communication

• Work with others to produce or create something
• Create puppets and a puppet show. Create a mural.
  Create an installation.

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Collaboration
In the classroomWhen a student is engaged in a
collaborative learning project, frequently the
students' level of tolerance and acceptance of
other people's viewpoints is increased. Paul,
R., Binker., A., Jensen, K., Kreklau, H.
(1990). p. 56 Critical thinking handbook A guide
for remodeling lesson plans in language arts,
social studies and science. Rohnert Park, CA
Foundation for Critical Thinking.
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Flexibility and Adaptability

• Keep open minds and modify their ideas to achieve
  creative results
• It doesnt look like I thought it would.
• Would it look better if I.?

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Initiative and Self-direction

• Take charge use a fresh approach
• Invent something new. Make something unlike any
  other. Use a technique you have not used before.

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Social and Cross-Cultural Skills

• Explore thoughts underlying feelings and feelings
  underlying thought
• Create art based on emotion, respond to others
  work

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Leadership and Responsibility

• Develop perseverance
• Keep working until it looks like you want it

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Leadership and Responsibility

• Develop intellectual courage
• Display work and discuss it with others

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Which 21st century Employability skills are
addressed in visual arts education?

• Critical Thinking and Problem-solving
• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Leadership and Responsibility
• And More

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Visual Arts Education

• Art is not a thing
• it is a way.

• Elbert Hubbard, American writer/philosopher

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