"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
All student in OHS Art Classes will work to earn a percentage grade (0-100%) for their performance in class. This grade will be broken down as follows: Work Skills -------------------------------------------------25% In Class Activities (Notes, sketches, and design processing) ------25% Art Product (Final Projects) -----------------------------------25% Creative Mind Drawings (Semester-long drawing portfolio) -----25%
Total ------------------------------------------100%
Work Skills
Students will be graded on their in-class behavior. Having strong Work Skills in the art room means not just good behavior, but productive behavior. These habits help to to develop strong, skillful artists and learners who are resourceful, reliable, capable, life-long learners. The Work Skills as listed below are aligned to the Onalaska School District values, Washington State Standards for Visual Art, Career Technology standards, and the 21st Century Skills. They are adapted to help high school students increase the quality of their work, their contribution to the creative learning community, and the overall success of their learning.
1. Concepts: The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills in visual arts. 1.1 Understands and applies visual arts concepts and vocabulary. 1.2 Develops visual arts skills and techniques. 1.3 Understands and applies visual arts genres and styles of various artists, cultures, and times. 1.4 Understands and applies audience conventions in a variety of settings, performances, and presentations of visual arts.
2. Creation: The student uses the artistic processes of creating, presenting, and responding to demonstrate thinking skills in visual arts. 2.1 Creativity: Applies a creative process to visual arts. (Identifies, explores, gathers, interprets, uses, implements, reflects, refines, and presents) 2.2 Presentation: Applies a performance and/or presentation process to visual arts. (Identifies, selects, analyzes, interprets, practices, revises, adjusts, refines, presents, exhibits, produces, reflects, self-evaluates) 2.3 Response: Applies a responding process to a presentation/exhibit of visual arts. (Engages, describes, analyzes, interprets, and evaluates)
3. Communication: The student communicates through visual art. 3.1 Uses visual arts to express feelings and present ideas. 3.2 Uses visual arts to communicate for a specific purpose. 3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices in visual arts.
4. Connections: The student makes connections within and across the arts to other disciplines, life, cultures, and work. 4.1 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts). 4.2 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections between the arts and other content areas. 4.3 Understands how the arts impact and reflect personal choices throughout life. 4.4 Understands how the arts influence and reflect cultures/civilization, place, and time. 4.5 Understands how arts knowledge and skills are used in the world of work, including careers in the arts.
Want to learn about the Work Skills and Studio Habits of Mind? Explore this resource: Art is Education. The Studio Habits of Mind, as outlined below, are another useful method of approaching the artistic process as a life-long learner.