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BIG IDEAS OR Enduring Understandings are statements summarizing important ideas and core processes that are central to a discipline and have lasting value beyond the classroom. They synthesize what students should understand—not just know or do—as a result of studying a particular content area.
Moreover, they articulate what students should “revisit” over the course of their lifetimes in relationship to the content area. Below are the 4 Big Ideas each student should explore throughout the Visual Arts curriculum.
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.