Arts PROPEL
Creating student artwork and observing professional artwork as ways to develop artistic ability and track it over time.
The Arts PROPEL project approached arts-based learning from three perspectives:
Production
Students are inspired to learn the basic skills and principles of the art form by putting their ideas into music, words, or visual form- Perception
Students study works of art to understand the kinds of choices artists make and to see connections between their own and others' work
- Reflection
Students assess their work according to personal goals and standards of excellence in the field.
Programs combining instruction and assessment were developed for middle- and high-school students in three art forms: music, visual arts, and imaginative writing. Arts PROPEL researchers also developed two major tools that use an ongoing process of assessment to reinforce instruction: 1) The domain project encourages students to tackle open-ended problems. Students write poems, compose their own songs, paint portraits, and tackle other "real-life" projects as the starting point for exploring the works of practicing artists. 2) The portfolio (or processfolio) traces the development of examples of student work through each stage of the creative process.
Explore the book series that emerged from this project.
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Thank You to Our Funder
Arts PROPEL was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Rockefeller Foundation.