Visual Arts Lesson Planning

Zoom in…Planning for action One lesson at a time

Art Lesson Plan Format

Makes your teaching and student learning visible.

PARTS

1. Information

2. Learning Goals & Standards

3. Assessment

4. Instruction

5. Reflection

Information

What?– Pat Pinciotti– Cohort 3 - Grade 1– Lesson 2 - Color

Exploration– February 1, 2007

Where?– At the top left hand corner of

lesson

– Single spaced

Why?– Identification

Learning Goals & Standards: Where can I find ideas for Art? National Standards#1: Understanding and applying media,

techniques, and processes #2: Using knowledge of structures and

functions (elements & principles of visual organization)

#3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas

#4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures

#5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others

#6: Making connections between visual

arts and other disciplines

PA State StandardsCategories

Production, Performance and ExhibitionHistorical and Cultural ContextsCritical ResponseAesthetic Response

Develops & IntegratesApplication of Problem solving skillsExtensive practice in the comprehension of basic symbol systems and abstract conceptsApplication of technical skills in practical production and performanceComprehension and application of the creative processDevelopment and practice of creative thinking skillsDevelopment of verbal and nonverbal communication skills

Learning Goals & Standards: Writing Learning Goals

What do I want students to LEARN?

What artistic choices must they make?

Learners Profile

Who are the children in your class?

Identified Learners Learners

Struggling Learners

Advanced Learners

Assessment: Valuing Creative WorkMaking learning visible Method

– Product or Process to Assess– What does excellent work look like?

Tool– What criteria are you valuing in the work?

Accommodations and/or Enhancements

Assessment: Linking Goals and Criteria

Learning Goals Tool identifies the Criteria for Success

How will you discriminate between…– Good Enough– Better than good

enough– Not good enough

Instruction: Making Teaching Visible

SCRIPT INSTRUCTION - What are you saying/doing?

Materials - Preparing for success Motivation - Sensory Awareness & Artistic Inspiration Explanation of Learning/Project (short) Demonstration - Model artistic thinking and creating Guided Practice - Develop craftsmanship and

creativity together Independent Practice - Challenge and clarify

individual artistic choices Application - Summarize learning and usefulness Modifications – Accommodations or enhancements

to ensure success for all learners

Instruction: Materials

Art Supplies Artifacts Media/Images

ZOOMING IN CLOSER….

Instruction: Motivation-Inspiration

AWAKEN Sensory Awareness Artistic Inspiration LOOK! AT ART!!

Instruction: Explanation

Explanation of Learning Description of Art

Exploration

“Today …. (k.i.s.s.)

Instruction: Demonstration

Model artistic thinking

What are you saying? Model creative work

What are you doing?

Instruction: Guided Practice

Develops craftsmanship – Imagine a brilliant example? – Visualize your goals for learning? – Stretch student’s knowledge and skills

Nurtures creativity – What artistic choices are you encouraging? – What are you saying to scaffold?

Instruction: Independent Practice Clarifies and explains

individual artistic choices– Critical and Creative Thinking

Questions

Challenges and stretches individual artistic choices – What ideas are you adding?

Instruction: Application

Summarizes learning What did we learn? Explains the usefulness of learning How can

we use this learning? Extent of Learning How have you expanded

critical and creative thinking in the students?

Instruction: Modifications

Ensure success for all learners Where and how did you make accommodations or enhancements?– CONTENT: What you want the

students to learn– PROCESS: The way students

make sense of the content– PRODUCT: The outcome at

the end of instruction

Reflection: Growing out loud What makes this an effective lesson?

What would you change to make it better?

What impact did you have on student learning? Is this important? Why?

What have you learned as a teacher?– About art? Children? Learning? Teaching?