Elementary Visual School Arts

Research-Based Effective Teaching

Strategies

21 st Century Learning Skills

Check all that apply to the unit:

Identifying Similarities and Differences

Summarizing and Note Taking

Reinforcing Effort, Providing

Recognition

Homework and Practice

Nonlinguistic Representations

Cooperative Learning

Setting Objectives, Providing

Feedback

Generating and Testing Hypotheses

Cues, Questions, and Advance

Organizers

Interdisciplinary Non-Fiction Writing

Check all that apply to the unit:

Teamwork and Collaboration

Initiative and Leadership

Curiosity and Imagination

Innovation and Creativity

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Flexibility and Adaptability

Effective Oral and Written

Communication

Accessing and Analyzing

Information

Other

Differential

Strategies

(Additional

Supports +

Enrichment)

Intervention

Strategies

(Tiers 1, 2, 3)

Specially

Designed

Instruction for

Special Education

Students

Strategies for

English

Language

Learners

Tracing lines and
shapes found with
fingers

Games made to
teach lines,
shapes, colors

Pairing students
during post
assessment

Repeating
information on
line, shape,
colors, and

Re-teach

Repetition

Change pace

Guided practice

Cueing and

signaling

Student buddy

Collaborative

learning

Adaptive tools as

necessary

Adjust size and

time for production

their art

Address learning

modalities

Inclusion of

specialists

(occupational

therapist, physical

therapist, ESL

teachers)

Physical

demonstration to

communicate

instructions.

Vocabulary in

picture form

Additional guided

practice

Provide visual

examples for goal

setting.