Class # 13 - Standards and Practice/Thinking About Curriculum Through TFU Framework

Using the California Content Standards for Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA), you will be introduced to Teaching for Understanding Framework (TFU) and use these to create an arts based activity to use in a k-12 classroom.

• Look at the Content Standards and across the VAPA strands to see how they play out within the Standards: Visual and Performing Arts, Dance, Visual and Performing Arts, Music, Visual and Performing Arts, Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts

• Think about one of the VAPA strands that you would like to create an activity around: Artistic Perception, Creative Expression, Historical and Cultural Context, Aesthetic Valuing and Connections, Relationships, and Applications.

• Now look at the book Art in Education, A Curriculum Planning Guide, created by Jen Stewart and The Center for Art and Public Life. Look at page 7 for an overview of Teaching For Understanding Framework that was used to develop the curriculum examples in this book.

• Pick a grade level curriculum in the Art in Education book, using one of the VAP strands and the basic TFU framework, with a partner develop an arts based activity that you will present to the class the last half of the evening.

We will also watch the video "Art Works for Schools: A Curriculum for Teaching Thinking In and Through the Arts", created by Harvard Project Zero, Underground Railroad Theater, and the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park.

Homework

Work on your final Art Education Philosophy project for next weeks final presentation!!