Primary Curriculum

Projects & Assignments

Class Introduction

Grading

What is Teaching for Artistic Behavior?

TABS: Teaching for Artistic Behavior

My curriculum is guided by the TABS (Teaching for Artistic Behavior) pedagogy. TABS is a educational philosophy that puts students at the center of artmaking. Students in our class will develop skills in different art materials and have choice to explore, draw, and paint things that they find interesting or important. To put it simply your student is the artist and the classroom is the art studio. Throughout the course students will explore the use of new materials but will rarely if ever be ask to all make the same thing. Students will research, experiment, and develop their own artwork and practice talking about their own work and the work of other artists.

Grading is simple and straight forward in my class and separted into three categories attendance, participation, and completion.

Attendance

I CAN be present during class.

Participation

I CAN come up with ideas.

I CAN gather tools and materials.

I CAN be respectful of other artists artwork and space.

I CAN use artist materials safely.

I CAN put meaning into my artwork.

I CAN try thigns I have never done before.

I CAN use my time in art productively.

I CAN stick with my art by problem-solving with a challenge comes up.

I CAN experiment with new art skills and techniques.

I CAN improve my existing skills and techniques.

I CAN collaborate with other artists for artmaking.

I CAN cleanup and store my artwork.

Completion

I CAN use my mistakes to modify my work.

I CAN talk about my art.

I CAN reflect upon new things I discovered.

I CAN let my ideas change as I work.

I CAN meet deadlines.