Elementary Visual School Arts

Discuss appropriate vocabulary

Textbook assessments

Performance based (Teacher documents students who did or did not understand
how to draw a face)

Reflect on essential questions (Teacher documents students who were and who
were not able to answer the essential questions)

Scoring Guides and Answer Keys

Notations from individual monitoring

Engaging Learning Experiences

Learning Activities Using Text or

Program

Authentic Performance Tasks

Read Explorations in Art, pp. 2-11, Unit 1

Teacher demonstrations

Critique

Pre-assessment of vocabulary (lines,

shapes, pattern)

Sketches of faces

Student created portrait

Research-Based Effective Teaching

Strategies

21 st Century Learning Skills

Check all that apply to the unit:

X Identifying Similarities and

Differences

Summarizing and Note Taking

X Reinforcing Effort, Providing

Recognition

Homework and Practice

Nonlinguistic Representations

Check all that apply to the unit:

X Teamwork and Collaboration

Initiative and Leadership

X Curiosity and Imagination

X Innovation and Creativity

X Critical Thinking and Problem

Solving

Flexibility and Adaptability