That’s because art history is connected to the Understanding Art World Habit. It’s possible you are using the Studio Habits in your classroom right now without knowing it. Allow students to view a variety of art to learn about art history. This will give your students context behind what they are learning. But it also encompasses learning how to act as an artist in relationship to different communities. Make sure to formally introduce the habit to your students as you focus in on it with various activities. The habit, Understand Art World, is characterized by learning about art history and current practices. Let’s take a look at the Studio Habit: Understand Art World and see how you can share this habit with your students in the art room. In the article, “ Why Do We Need the Studio Habit Framework, anyway?,” Lois Hetland said, “Studio Habits bind together artistic practices-that is, the ways serious artists work-and arts education, so that what we teach and what students learn more closely resemble genuine artistic efforts.” The habits include Observe, Envision, Develop Craft, Reflect, Express, Understand Art World, Engage and Persist and, finally, Stretch and Explore. Studio Habits of Mind from Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education, Hetland, Winner, et al, Teachers College Press, 2007.Have you used the Studio Habits of Mind in your art room? If not, they are wonderful habits to share with your students, so they have a better understanding of how an artist behaves. The creators of the Studio Habits of Mind, Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Kimberly Sheridan, and Shirley Veenema, emphasized the importance of regarding students as artists capable of creating authentic work. Arts is in parenthesis here as it can easily be switched with other disciplines, like science or history. Understand (Arts) Community: Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (i.e., in classrooms, in local arts organizations, and across the art field) and within the broader society. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.Ĩ. Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.ħ. Observe: Learning to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary “looking” requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen.Ħ. Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.ĥ. Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.Ĥ. Engage & Persist: Learning to embrace problems of relevance within the art world and/or of personal importance, to develop focus conducive to working and persevering at tasks.ģ. Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.Ģ. They are not hierarchical, and they can be used in guided instruction or constructivist teaching modalities.ġ. Studio Habits of Mind (SHoM) empower students to articulate their learning in any subject matter, and provide an entry point for learning based on individual choice and need. Library/Media Specialist & Academic Enrichment
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