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| Success Enrichment/Art, Project (PSE/Art). A program which provides gifted students with an opportunity to go well beyond their gifted and nongifted peers in terms of skill level for three artistic modes: drawing, printing, and claywork. |
Audience Approved by PEP for gifted students in grades 4-6; has been field tested in grades 2-8. This enrichment program in visual art is designed to enrich the education of intellectually and creatively gifted students, as well as students in the regular classroom, special education, Chapter I, multicultural, and "at-risk" students. A curriculum manual that encompasses all phases of the program operation will be provided to each participant.
Description Students are grouped for cooperative learning experiences organized into roughly three-hour blocks per week over a seven month period. The curriculum for each program is developmentally sequential, based on learning theory, and integrates the content (academic) and thinking skills by using a specific process approach, which has proven to be very effective. The program emphasizes problem solving, decision making, higher level thinking, and creativity, as well as self-management and social skills.
The art curriculum includes enrichment activities that focus on drawing, painting, and design, claywork and sculpture, and thinking (creative and critical) appropriate for children of all ability levels. The curriculum activities are sequential, use a variety of media, and emphasize: (1) proportion, (2) contour, (3) detail, (4) shape, (5) form, (6) pattern, (7) texture, and (8) use of color. After completing skill awareness and skill acquisition activities, students embark on individual projects.
Project Success Enrichment/Art (PSE/Art) asks students to brainstorm art principles, elements, and techniques, making connections as to their use in drawing, painting, and claywork. The students have an opportunity to work with a variety of media, topics, concepts, and projects, relating art to academics. Students are encouraged to develop creativity, artistic expression, and perceptual skills in an effort to acquire an understanding of how all knowledge is interconnected. The integration of the two programs has become a powerful way to teach, particularly with those students who employ certain learning styles that need experiential, hands-on learning to acquire knowledge and concepts.
PSE/Art has been identified by the National Diffusion Network as meeting National Goal for Education 3 because it assists students in learning to use their minds and further their achievements in the area of visual art, so they may be prepared for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment in our modern economy.
Evidence of Effectiveness Using performance and portfolio assessments of both the process and end products of artwork in any of three media, students involved in the program not only substantially increased their skill by the end of the treatment period, but achieved higher levels of skill than students in another art program. PSE/Art is a statistically proven program in drawing, painting, and claywork. It requires students to use higher level thinking rather than engaging in a fill-in-the-blanks type of learning.
Requirements Classroom and/or resource teachers trained in the use of PSE/Art materials and procedures and use of the program's curriculum, materials, and training manuals.
Costs Start-up costs for the two-day Level I (preservice) training and for the one- or two-day Level II (follow-up) training are based on a $300-$500 per day consulting fee and on purchase of curriculum materials which range from $70-$150 per teacher. Ongoing operational costs vary depending upon the nature of the model as it is implemented. Classroom art supplies are purchased by the school district as needed.
Services Training, consultation, curriculum, materials, and a training manual are available.
Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title III and IV-C.
PEP No. 93-5 (3/1/93)
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