Blueprints For Teaching and Learning in the Arts
The Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts: PreK-12provides a standards-based, rigorous approach to teaching the arts.
The Blueprints were designed by scholars in the field to best suit the needs and situations of New York City public schools. These guides address New York City and New York State Learning Standards for the Arts as well as the important factor of the New York City community and its depth of cultural offerings. Click below to view the PDFs of the Blueprints for Dance, the Moving Image, Music, Theater and Visual Arts.
The Blueprints were designed by scholars in the field to best suit the needs and situations of New York City public schools. These guides address New York City and New York State Learning Standards for the Arts as well as the important factor of the New York City community and its depth of cultural offerings. Click below to view the PDFs of the Blueprints for Dance, the Moving Image, Music, Theater and Visual Arts.
Standard 1 - Visual Arts
Key idea: Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes, and metaphors. Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art. Students will use a variety of art materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual art works.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
Standard 2 - Visual Arts
Key idea: Students will know and use a variety of visual arts materials, techniques, and processes. Students will know about resources and opportunities for participation in visual arts in the community (exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries) and use appropriate materials (art reproductions, slides, print materials, electronic media). Students will be aware of vocational options available in the visual arts.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
Standard 3 - Visual Arts
Key idea: Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
Standard 4 - Visual Arts
Key idea: Students will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence the visual characteristics of the art work. Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of human society.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
Key idea: Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes, and metaphors. Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art. Students will use a variety of art materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual art works.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
- experiment and create art works, in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of individual and collective experiences
- develop their own ideas and images through the exploration and creation of art works based on themes, symbols, and events
- understand and use the elements and principles of art (line, color, texture, shape) in order to communicate their ideas
- reveal through their own art work understanding of how art mediums and techniques influence their creative decisions
- identify and use, in individual and group experiences, some of the roles and means for designing, producing, and exhibiting art works
Standard 2 - Visual Arts
Key idea: Students will know and use a variety of visual arts materials, techniques, and processes. Students will know about resources and opportunities for participation in visual arts in the community (exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries) and use appropriate materials (art reproductions, slides, print materials, electronic media). Students will be aware of vocational options available in the visual arts.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
- understand the characteristics of various mediums (two-dimensional, three-dimensional, electronic images) in order to select those that are appropriate for their purposes and intent
- develop skills with electronic media as a means of expressing visual ideas
- know about some cultural institutions (museums and galleries) and community opportunities (art festivals) for looking at original art and talking to visiting artists, to increase their understanding of art
- give examples of adults who make their living in the arts professions
Standard 3 - Visual Arts
Key idea: Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
- explain their reflections about the meanings, purposes, and sources of works of art; describe their responses to the works and the reasons for those responses
- explain the visual and other sensory qualities (surfaces, colors, textures, shape, sizes, volumes) found in a wide variety of art works
- explain the themes that are found in works of visual art and how the art works are related to other forms of art (dance, music, theatre, etc.)
- explain how ideas, themes, or concepts in the visual arts are expressed in other disciplines (e.g., mathematics, science, literature, social studies, etc.)
Standard 4 - Visual Arts
Key idea: Students will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence the visual characteristics of the art work. Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of human society.
Performance Indicators Elementary
Students will:
- look at and discuss a variety of art works and artifacts from world cultures to discover some important ideas, issues, and events of those cultures
- look at a variety of art works and artifacts from diverse cultures of the United States and identify some distinguishing characteristics
- create art works that show the influence of a particular culture