Adolescent Art Empowerment
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Choice Based Art Education
Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is a nationally recognized choice-based art education approach to teaching art. Developed in Massachusetts classrooms over thirty five years, and through courses and research at Massachusetts College of Art, the Teaching for Artistic Behavior concept enables students to experience the work of the artist through authentic learning opportunities and responsive TAB is choice based art education. Choice based art education is referred to also as TAB. Choice based art education is a pedagogy that offers students choices in the art classroom.
Art as a Form of Empowerment
for the
Middle School Adolescent
Kimberlee Kennedy's
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Backward Design Curriculum
The Backward Design Curricular model outlined in Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 1998) shifts a teachers thinking about how they write their own curriculum. This is done by thinking about what students should learn before thinking about what the teacher will do. Teachers are thinking about the end result first and then formatting their lesson around those ideas. The framework for this curriculum is carried out in three stages. First the teachers centers the curriculum around big ideas, then essential questions, and finally authentic performances.
ABOUT My Study
In order to create an empowering art environment, I implemented a Backward Design Curricular model, one that was fused with a Modified Choice-Based Model, (also known as Teaching for Artistic Behaviors) in order to design a curriculum unit in which students researched the big idea of human power and the symbolism of power demonstrated in works of art.