Art Anatomy101:Restructuring Your Program

for Success

Mary Lou Hightower, Ed. D.

USC Upstate

Anatomy-Study of Systems

Systems

• Educational Research

• District/County• Individual School• Community

Educational Research System

• Look to research that favors art education.

• New Bloom’s• Gardner’s Multiple

Intelligences• Visual Literacy

Original Terms New Terms

• Evaluation

• Synthesis

• Analysis

• Application

• Comprehension

• Knowledge

•Creating

•Evaluating

•Analyzing

•Applying

•Understanding

•Remembering(Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)

Simple Terms

• Create-Generate/Create

• Evaluate- Justify/Validate

• Analyze- Differentiate/Organize

• Apply- Execute/ Implement

• Understand- Interpret/Summarize

• Remember-Recall/Recognize

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

Visual Literacy

Start to use “Administrator Language”

District/County System

Do you know?

• When budget talks begin?

• Do you understand the bottom line?

• Do you understand the chain of command?

How is your program

perceived?

Did you know that there are hidden measures?

• Number of contests• AP students• Comparisons to

other programs

Ideas to think about

• Make an annual report of activities

• List all the show you participated in

• Any awards• Your professional

work• Use bullets and try

to make it short

Think like a Business Person

• Break down cost to show the real expense.

• Show what one lesson might cost

• Reflect inflation

Secret Weapon

• Invite a board member having the students write the invitation to your art reception.

Individual School System

• Do you know when the best time to meet the principal?

Find out his/her interests!

• See where your program and their interests match!

I want or I need

• Be care of this situation!

• Make frequent contact that are not always “I want or I need”

Do you had a problem?

Have a solution in mind too!

Always have a “Plan B• Be care what you

ask for …you might not like what you get!

Celebrate your principal!

• Make a principal’s gallery of excellence

• He/She should sign the certificates

• Letters signed by him/her of congratulations!

Community System

Create PR for your Program

• Make yourself the art department• Design a logo• Create stationary

Create an art booster club

• Parents are a powerful force!

Team Up

• Community arts organizations

• State Arts groups• NAEA

Study your Systems

• Remember the dollar story

Thank You