Art: Art Across The Curriculum

40 Points per Year

7/12

2-000-019

General Objective

The purpose of this component is to increase participants' knowledge of interdisciplinary instruction and give a more comprehensive approach to teaching through the arts. Upon successful completion of the component, participants will be able to comprehensively integrate the arts into other curriculum areas.

Specific Objectives

Upon completion of this component, participants will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the history of mankind revealed through the arts.
  2. Analyze works of art that document people and events from a variety of places and times to synthesize ideasforcreating.
  3. Make connections between visual images and academic concepts found in Math, Science and Literature.
  4. Demonstrate methods of analyzing visual images.
  5. Apply new knowledge related to art in specific academic area(s).
  6. Determine resources available through art museums, galleries, cultural organizations, etc.
  7. Demonstrate knowledge of networking disciplines using art as a focus.
  8. Demonstrate how students that are engaged in art criticism can lead to developing critical-thinking

skillstransferable to other contexts.

  1. Critique works of art to understand the content and make connections with other content area.
  2. Discuss how skills learned through the analysis and art-making process are used to solve problems in

non-art areas.

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the New Generation Sunshine Standards in Art and of other academic disciplines.

Description of Activities

Activities designed to accomplish the specific objectives above may include, but will not be limited to, encountering original art work, exploring the history of art, cooperative learning projects, comprehensive art instruction, and writing lessons.

Evaluation of Participants

Evaluation of the specific objectives will be determined by the activity leader or designee through analysis of student performance data affected by training activities, portfolios maintained by the training participant, documented observation by administrators, rubrics developed for special area curriculum, teacher-provided test results/grade books, or curriculum alignment data.

Evaluation of Activity

An online evaluation for this activity will be conducted through the Santa Rosa Professional Growth System.