Fine Art Standards, Grading Policies, Iowa Core and Curriculum Page
Grading Policies in the Art Department
Weekly Studio Grades: (20 points/week)
Each week students receive a grade based upon the National & Iowa Visual Art Common Core Standards.
Grade is based upon:
1. Work Ethic: (class on-time, no unexcused absences, initiative in class to work on basic tasks, working hard, tries hard, doesn't need constant re-direction)
2. Accountability: (efficient time management, uses art tools and laptops correctly, cleans up after self, turns in work, shows self-control)
3. Productivity: (thinks through basic tasks and gets them done, tries to create a quality result, is self-directed, applies old/new skills)
4. Responsibility: (shows personal responsibility, follows basic tasks/objectives, tries to take art seriously, doesn't disrupt the experience of others)
5. Inquiry and Creativity: (thinks things through before making decisions, behaviors, or actions, shows original thinking, outside the box)
Each week students receive a grade based upon the National & Iowa Visual Art Common Core Standards.
Grade is based upon:
1. Work Ethic: (class on-time, no unexcused absences, initiative in class to work on basic tasks, working hard, tries hard, doesn't need constant re-direction)
2. Accountability: (efficient time management, uses art tools and laptops correctly, cleans up after self, turns in work, shows self-control)
3. Productivity: (thinks through basic tasks and gets them done, tries to create a quality result, is self-directed, applies old/new skills)
4. Responsibility: (shows personal responsibility, follows basic tasks/objectives, tries to take art seriously, doesn't disrupt the experience of others)
5. Inquiry and Creativity: (thinks things through before making decisions, behaviors, or actions, shows original thinking, outside the box)
Visual Art e-Rubric Examples Used in the Art Department: (forallrubrics.com)
Electronic Rubric Used For:
Studio Art, Advanced Art: 2/D Tract, AP Art: 2D Art, Drawing
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Electronic Rubric Used For:
Virtual Reality
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Electronic Rubric Used For:
Ceramics, Advanced Art: Pottery Tract
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Southwestern Iowa Comm College
GRA Layout Design GRA Digital Layout GRA Computer Graphic Design
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Iowa Core Fine Arts Standards
The State of Iowa has finalized a Core Companion for the Fine Arts. In-depth information on the core constructs, standards, and benchmarks can be found at the Art Educators of Iowa Core Companion Website at http://visualartsiowacore.weebly.com
The Tenants of the Art Core:
1. Artistic Literacy
Two tenets exist within this domain—creating and responding.
Combined, these cultivate wisdom, innovative thinking and intrinsic values; processes not easily quantified, but vital to lifelong learning in an increasingly technological, commercial and global society.
2. Visual Arts Production
A comprehensive art curriculum will actively engage students in their own learning to develop concepts and skills through sensory awareness, aesthetic discrimination and authentic production tasks. “Individuals who participate in an effective visual arts program develop visual thinking abilities and analytic and expressive abilities that result in a high level of functioning in academic areas such as mathematics, sciences, social sciences, and language arts. (Visual Art instruction) serves as an excellent model for approaches to creative problem-solving that mark the educated person.”
-Creating Curriculum: A Framework for Visual Art, Iowa Department of Education, Iowa Alliance for Arts Education and Iowa Arts Council (1995)
3. Iowa Fine Art Core Universal Constructs
Critical Thinking
This is the ability to access and analyze key information to develop solutions to complex problems that may have no clear answer. It incorporates reflective and visionary processes. Critical thinking utilizes abstractions and non-rules based strategies to guide decisions, behaviors and actions.
Complex Communication
This is based on the successful sharing of information through multiple means, including visual, digital, verbal, and nonverbal interactions. The message is purposeful, clear and concise leading to an accurate exchange of information and ideas.
Creativity
This incorporates curiosity and innovation to generate new or original thoughts, interpretations, products, works, or techniques. Creativity is nurtured, advanced, and modeled through numerous approaches, including inquiry-based learning, abstract thinking, and student-focused learning.
Collaboration
This is working among and across personal and global networks to achieve common goals. It requires cultural competence and personal and civic responsibility in all environments. Collaboration also requires open and flexible approaches to leadership.
Flexibility and Adaptability
This includes responding and adjusting to situational needs, and changing to meet the challenges of new roles, paradigms and environments. Flexibility and adaptability include the thoughtful balance between an individual’s core beliefs and appropriate reaction to change. These dispositions are nurtured through life long learning and continuous improvement.
Productivity & Accountability
PRODUCTIVITY is prioritizing, planning, and applying knowledge and skills to make decisions that create quality results in an ever-changing environment. Individuals and teams demonstrate initiative, self-direction, and personal responsibility to add value to the world around them.
ACCOUNTABILITY is demonstrating efficient time management, appropriate resource allocation, personal integrity, and self-monitoring to meet the demands of productivity. Individuals and teams recognize the interconnectedness of their actions at all levels.
4. Content Standards for Grade 9-12
Content Standard 1: Students will understand, select and apply media, techniques and processes.
(Critical Thinking, Creativity, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Create objects, performances, conceptual works, and images with a variety of media to explore relevant personal, technical, social, environmental and cultural issues.
B Benchmark
Develop and demonstrate ability with tools and technologies associated with art making and research.
C Benchmark
Transform conceptual ideas and processes into visual art products.
Content Standard 2: Students will understand and apply elements and principles of design and other art structures.
(Critical Thinking, Complex Communication, Creativity, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Research and apply the elements and principles associated with the discipline of visual art to investigate, studio production, art history, aesthetics, and issues that occur in society, culture, and the natural world.
B Benchmark
Compare perspectives and functions of art to justify personal evaluation through reasoned arguments and logical connections.
C Benchmark
Communicate ideas to others through the visual arts.
Content Standard 3: Students will consider, select, apply and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.
(Critical Thinking, Complex Communication, Creativity, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Create original artwork using subjects, symbols, and ideas from society, cultures, and the natural world.
B Benchmark
Generate and revise multiple solutions in the visual arts.
Content Standard 4: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
(Complex Communication, Creativity, Collaboration)
A Benchmark
Understand and apply knowledge of history and cultures to visual art.
B Benchmark
Identify and combine divergent sources from visual culture, art history, popular arts, and media to create original and meaningfulworks of art.
C Benchmark
Explore diversity through the study, creation, reflection, outreach and collaboration in the visual arts.
Content Standard 5: Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their own and other’s work.
(Critical Thinking, Complex Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Use written and oral communication to critique personal artwork and the work of others.
B Benchmark
Reflect upon personal artistic growth over time in relation to specific criteria.
C Benchmark
Adapt and revise artwork in response to critical feedback from peers and teachers.
Content Standard 6: Students will make connections between the visual arts, other disciplines and daily life.
(Critical Thinking, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Synthesize materials, processes and technologies in the visual arts with other disciplines.
B Benchmark
Practice problem-solving with materials and processes to make predictions and anticipate change.
C Benchmark
Share ideas, images and objects with others through a variety of ways.
Adapted from “National Standards for Arts Education” and Creating Curriculum: A Framework for Visual Art.
1. Artistic Literacy
Two tenets exist within this domain—creating and responding.
Combined, these cultivate wisdom, innovative thinking and intrinsic values; processes not easily quantified, but vital to lifelong learning in an increasingly technological, commercial and global society.
2. Visual Arts Production
A comprehensive art curriculum will actively engage students in their own learning to develop concepts and skills through sensory awareness, aesthetic discrimination and authentic production tasks. “Individuals who participate in an effective visual arts program develop visual thinking abilities and analytic and expressive abilities that result in a high level of functioning in academic areas such as mathematics, sciences, social sciences, and language arts. (Visual Art instruction) serves as an excellent model for approaches to creative problem-solving that mark the educated person.”
-Creating Curriculum: A Framework for Visual Art, Iowa Department of Education, Iowa Alliance for Arts Education and Iowa Arts Council (1995)
3. Iowa Fine Art Core Universal Constructs
Critical Thinking
This is the ability to access and analyze key information to develop solutions to complex problems that may have no clear answer. It incorporates reflective and visionary processes. Critical thinking utilizes abstractions and non-rules based strategies to guide decisions, behaviors and actions.
Complex Communication
This is based on the successful sharing of information through multiple means, including visual, digital, verbal, and nonverbal interactions. The message is purposeful, clear and concise leading to an accurate exchange of information and ideas.
Creativity
This incorporates curiosity and innovation to generate new or original thoughts, interpretations, products, works, or techniques. Creativity is nurtured, advanced, and modeled through numerous approaches, including inquiry-based learning, abstract thinking, and student-focused learning.
Collaboration
This is working among and across personal and global networks to achieve common goals. It requires cultural competence and personal and civic responsibility in all environments. Collaboration also requires open and flexible approaches to leadership.
Flexibility and Adaptability
This includes responding and adjusting to situational needs, and changing to meet the challenges of new roles, paradigms and environments. Flexibility and adaptability include the thoughtful balance between an individual’s core beliefs and appropriate reaction to change. These dispositions are nurtured through life long learning and continuous improvement.
Productivity & Accountability
PRODUCTIVITY is prioritizing, planning, and applying knowledge and skills to make decisions that create quality results in an ever-changing environment. Individuals and teams demonstrate initiative, self-direction, and personal responsibility to add value to the world around them.
ACCOUNTABILITY is demonstrating efficient time management, appropriate resource allocation, personal integrity, and self-monitoring to meet the demands of productivity. Individuals and teams recognize the interconnectedness of their actions at all levels.
4. Content Standards for Grade 9-12
Content Standard 1: Students will understand, select and apply media, techniques and processes.
(Critical Thinking, Creativity, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Create objects, performances, conceptual works, and images with a variety of media to explore relevant personal, technical, social, environmental and cultural issues.
B Benchmark
Develop and demonstrate ability with tools and technologies associated with art making and research.
C Benchmark
Transform conceptual ideas and processes into visual art products.
Content Standard 2: Students will understand and apply elements and principles of design and other art structures.
(Critical Thinking, Complex Communication, Creativity, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Research and apply the elements and principles associated with the discipline of visual art to investigate, studio production, art history, aesthetics, and issues that occur in society, culture, and the natural world.
B Benchmark
Compare perspectives and functions of art to justify personal evaluation through reasoned arguments and logical connections.
C Benchmark
Communicate ideas to others through the visual arts.
Content Standard 3: Students will consider, select, apply and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.
(Critical Thinking, Complex Communication, Creativity, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Create original artwork using subjects, symbols, and ideas from society, cultures, and the natural world.
B Benchmark
Generate and revise multiple solutions in the visual arts.
Content Standard 4: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
(Complex Communication, Creativity, Collaboration)
A Benchmark
Understand and apply knowledge of history and cultures to visual art.
B Benchmark
Identify and combine divergent sources from visual culture, art history, popular arts, and media to create original and meaningfulworks of art.
C Benchmark
Explore diversity through the study, creation, reflection, outreach and collaboration in the visual arts.
Content Standard 5: Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their own and other’s work.
(Critical Thinking, Complex Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Use written and oral communication to critique personal artwork and the work of others.
B Benchmark
Reflect upon personal artistic growth over time in relation to specific criteria.
C Benchmark
Adapt and revise artwork in response to critical feedback from peers and teachers.
Content Standard 6: Students will make connections between the visual arts, other disciplines and daily life.
(Critical Thinking, Flexibility / Adaptability, Productivity / Accountability)
A Benchmark
Synthesize materials, processes and technologies in the visual arts with other disciplines.
B Benchmark
Practice problem-solving with materials and processes to make predictions and anticipate change.
C Benchmark
Share ideas, images and objects with others through a variety of ways.
Adapted from “National Standards for Arts Education” and Creating Curriculum: A Framework for Visual Art.
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National Fine Arts Standards McREL
1. Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts.
2. Knows how to use structures (e.g., sensory qualities, organizational principles, expressive features) and functions of art.
3. Knows a range of subject matter, symbols, and potential ideas in the visual arts.
4. Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
5. Understands the characteristics and merits of one's own artwork and the artwork of others.
http://www2.mcrel.org/compendium/
2. Knows how to use structures (e.g., sensory qualities, organizational principles, expressive features) and functions of art.
3. Knows a range of subject matter, symbols, and potential ideas in the visual arts.
4. Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
5. Understands the characteristics and merits of one's own artwork and the artwork of others.
http://www2.mcrel.org/compendium/