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Accepted Knowledge

Problem Solving - Designing - Decision Making

Problem Solving

1. Sensing the Problem How can you make art students be more sensitive to the design and expression problems in their early ideas?

2. Researching the Problem How can students visually research a problem and visually collect information?

3. Formulating the Problem Instead of "just" making a project how can students be taught to form artistically appropriate problems, not just respond to the project expectations of the teacher?

4. Finding Alternatives What can the teacher do to keep students from too quickly accepting their early idea or ideas instead of visually speculating on other possibilities?

5. Choosing the Solution What artistic skills of decision making do students need? 6. Building Acceptance How can students use art criticism skills to explain the significance of the visual form they have created?

Designing

1. Imagining a Goal How can the teacher build student's visualization abilities?

2. Formulating a Goal How can students be taught through thumbnail sketches to zero in on a visual goal?

3. Inventing a Product What visual thinking process are necessary for students to truly invent new approaches to form?

4. Assessing the Product How can teacher help students develop deeper criteria for evaluating their work in-process?

5. Revising the Product How can a strategy be devised so that students will value the process of reworking art works based on in-process assessment?

Decision Making

1. Identifying the Issue What does it mean to teach students to identify artistically engaging issues?

2. Generating the Alternatives How can students learn genuine fluency in the production of visual alternatives before settling on a final composition?

3. Assessing the Consequences How can students visually explore the effects of their visual decisions on the final form?

4. Making a Choice Should all artistic decisions be based only on personal taste?

5. Evaluating the Choices Do historical precedents have a role in helping students make quality decisions?

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