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The Menwith Hill School Art Standards Page
Art for all...K-12
"Making connections---making Art"
Grade Level Programs:
Here at Menwith Hill our art program delivers a challenging yet enjoyable curriculum in a rich cultural and historical environment. This curriculum is based upon national educational standards that guide our exploration of the cultural heritages of America, our host nation and the world. Using these standards to focus our studies we are educating our students to take their place in and appreciate art and culture wherever they find it.
Create Works of Art:
Refers to the creating of art works, art vocabulary, skills development, and learning about the elements and principles of design.
Demonstrate Aesthetic Perception:
Focus upon acute awareness, well-developed observation, appreciation, taste, sense of beauty, intuitiveness, insight, and comprehension.
Develop a Knowledge of Art Heritage:
Delineates the expected outcomes of learning about cultures, individual artists, art masterpieces, and art careers.
Utilize Critical Judgment of the Visual Arts:
Refers to recognition of differences, evaluation, analysis, comparison, appraisal, discrimination, and wisdom in artistic choices.
These goals are aligned with the DoDEA K-12 Visual Arts Standards and the National Standards for Visual Arts Education. The K-12 Visual Arts Standards provide a framework for students to:
Learn the visual arts by using a wide range of subject matter, symbols, meaningful images, and visual expressions.
Reflect their ideas, feelings and emotions.
Evaluate the merits of their efforts.
New ways of thinking, working, communicating and reasoning through the investigation of
enduring ideas, concepts, issues, dilemmas and knowledge,
new techniques, approaches, and work habits.
The DoDEA Visual Arts Program for Kindergarten through twelfth grade has four primary goals.
The Visual Arts Standards also address these objectives by promoting the acquisition of:
Please use the index to the left to select the area of our program you wish to learn about. If these pages don't answer your questions, please contact us at the numbers listed below.