WGU Visual and Performing Arts – Latest 2023 Rated A
Communication ✔✔Literacy includes language and arts-based communication used to understand, respond to, and express thoughts and feelings. In particular, the arts are unparalleled symbolic languages that exist because all thoughts cannot be captured with words. Arts communication is integral to the cognitive, social, and personal effects of the arts
Content of the arts ✔✔The arts are not just a process. A vast worldwide arts treasury stands ready to change hearts and minds.
Creative problem solving (CPS) ✔✔the process used to construct meaning and is at the core of the arts. CPS is used to seek connections and synthesize diverse solutions
Critical thinking ✔✔is a part of CPS. It is a focus of the arts where quality is highly valued. In particular, critique is used to analyze details and patterns, compile evidence, and apply criteria to make judgments
Comprehension ✔✔is understanding. Across disciplines comprehension is the result of actively finding and creating big ideas using problem-solving processes including data gathering, 1 / 3
imaging, taking divergent perspectives, and synthesizing original connections. The arts also provide diverse texts from which comprehension can be derived
Composition ✔✔the process of expressing meaning. The arts contribute special principles, techniques, and materials to the composition process. The arts offer a range of composition forms as options to express thoughts and feelings
Culture ✔✔The arts uniquely record ways people have lived throughout history. They also provide rich contexts for growth, including positive classroom climates
Cooperation/collaboration ✔✔The arts involve students in group problem solving (e.g., ensembles, choirs, troupes, skits)
Community ✔✔The arts create a sense of belonging based on respect for the distinctive contributions of each person
Compassion ✔✔The arts build empathy by providing experiences that create new perspectives
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Commitment/interest ✔✔The arts develop intrinsic motivation because they are inherently engaging. Persistence, based on curiosity and choice, gives satisfaction, and people feel the rewards of commitment.
Concentration ✔✔The arts capture attention and develop concentration because they are emotionally compelling
Confidence ✔✔The arts develop the courage to take risks and develop pride in one's unique contributions to solving problems.
Competence/control. ✔✔The arts develop skills to work with tools and materials and develop control over mind, voice, and body. They build special strategies to plan, think, work, and produce. Artists feel free to break rules after they have mastered them
Art Integration Ladder ✔✔teaching with, about, in, and through the arts to conceptualize levels or degrees of meaningful integration
AI Level 1- with ✔✔experiment with a few arts strategies in an arts area of most comfort and interest
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