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ODE K-12 Visual Art Standards
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Grades K-2 Progress Points
Students will at the appropriate developmental level:
- Recognize that people from various times and cultures create works of art to be looked at, valued and enjoyed.
- Explore a range of art concepts and artworks and construct meaning about the works.
- Connect making art with individual choice and understanding personal cultural identity.
- Produce artworks that express and represent their experiences, imagination and ideas using a range of media including new technologies.
- Form and express opinions about artworks and apply critical and creative thinking skills to assess and refine their artworks.
Grades 3-5 Progress Points
Students will, at an appropriate developmental level:
- Examine a range of artistic works to gain insight into the historical and cultural traditions of local and global communities.
- Identify and apply universal themes and processes to communicate meanings, moods and visual effects in personal and collaborative artworks.
- Demonstrate technical skill, craftsmanship and reasoning abilities in solving visual art problems using appropriate tools, media and technologies.
- Express personal responses to artistic works giving reasons for their interpretations and preferences.
- Provide and use feedback to improve and refine their artworks.
Grades 6-8 Progress Points
Students will, at the appropriate developmental level:
- Recognize that examining the artistic works of others leads to understanding about cultural traditions, history, politics and their world.
- Describe, interpret and evaluate artworks empathizing with and challenging the opinions of others.
- Select, manipulate and refine arts concepts and processes to produce artworks that visually communicate their experiences, ideas and viewpoints.
- Develop and use criteria for making judgments about artworks and visual imagery and use descriptive language when talking and writing about works of art.
- Connect the content of visual artworks to interdisciplinary concepts, issues and themes.
Grades 9-12 Progress Points
Students will, at an appropriate developmental level:
- Understand and articulate the intrinsic worth and public value of arts and cultural participation.
- Draw on a variety of sources to generate, select and evaluate ideas to create personally meaningful products.
- Address and communicate complex visual and conceptual ideas using a range of technical skill and art media including new technologies.
- Access and evaluate information from a variety of sources for visual reference with attention to ethical and legal issues.
- Apply reasoning skills to communicate key ideas expressed in their artworks and the works of others and use appropriate criteria and language to critique the works.
- Analyze and use digital tools to understand how and why images are created and interpreted and how media influences culture, beliefs and behaviors.
- Demonstrate flexibility and reflective habits when creating visual art forms in a variety of artistic contexts and environments.
- Demonstrate respect for, and effectively work with, socially and culturally diverse teams or content to increase innovation and quality.
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Enduring Understandings
- Personal Choice and Vision: Students construct and solve problems of personal relevance and interest when expressing themselves through visual art.
- Critical and Creative Thinking: Students combine and apply artistic and reasoning skills to imagine, create, realize and refine artworks in conventional and innovative ways.
- Authentic Application and Collaboration: Students work individually and in groups to focus ideas and create artworks that address genuine local and global community needs.
- Literacy: As consumers, critics and creators, students evaluate and understand artworks and other texts produced in the media forms of the day.