FINE ARTS

ART

Program Description: The elementary art program interprets the state mandated essential elements in innovative and imaginative ways by providing concept and media-based units. Through art, students are encouraged to expand their own ideas and to share them with others. Through this process, students grow in confidence, pride, and self respect. In addition to its traditional creative contribution, the art program helps students develop higher order cognitive skills.

Program Goal: The purpose of the art program is to help students utilize and discover their individual potential as they engage in creative problem solving. It also helps the student to realize that art can be a source of pleasure as well as a necessary form of expression. The student’s personal growth through art experiences is more important than the finished work.

Time and Staffing: Intermediate students receive two 45 minute periods of art weekly. Primary students receive two 45 minute periods weekly, and art is also integrated into other areas of study. In half of the elementary schools, art is taught by an art specialist. In other schools it is taught by the classroom teacher.

Curriculum Support:
Learning to Look and Create: The Spectra Program by Kay Alexander
Art is the Key, Curriculum Guide
Local Scope and Sequence (1993)

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