Smart Art

 An Academic IDEA expressed in ART, empowers students to use the highest level of thinking: Creativity.

Teenager’s Smart Art Painting from Social Studies lesson on “Focusing on our similarities, not our differences.”

The Example of Smart Art is featured in this TIME MAGAZINE COVER as the Art picture contains the actual graph of the increase in Global warming over a two year period.

 
 

I believe ART should be a daily option for students like writing or reading… based on research not just because it brings so much joy.

SMART ART

by Dr. SJ Worley

Smart Art  combines 3 methodologies to produce the highest level of critical thinking through Art !  Those three concepts are:

  • Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences +

  • Individual Learning Styles +

  • Blooms Taxonomy.

Field Trips to museums reinforce messages found in Smart Art . This Sculpture of a Native American is found at Smithsonian’s: Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA. 

What is the message you receive by watching this? Who first lived in the land we live on now? 

Zak Brown’s Smart Art (my university student) summarized the whole chapter on Learning Styles. Teachers naturally teach in their strongest Learning Style, Do teachers reach ALL students if they ONLY teach with one Learning Style?