However, SHoM are a finite list of eight categories of learning and AB are the ever-expanding description of what artists do that is central to the Apex Model.

When a student successfully identifies having practiced one of.

Massachusetts teacher Jen Ferrari created the Studio Habit of Mind Wall of Fame to give students an opportunity to identify when they were practicing a SHoM and display work made in the studio. Express: Create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or meaning. Weaving work from Celia Knight’s classroom Acton, MA. Envision: Mentally picture the next possible steps in my work. Engage and Persist: Embrace important artistic problems and develop focus within my work. SHoM and AB are similar in that they are both related to holistic art assessment and teaching thinking. Develop Craft: Use and care for tools and materials as well as the practices of an art form. Some other AB-based units from Apex: Artists Steal, Artists Ask Essential Questions, Artists Understand Space, Artists Communicate and Artists Solve Problems. Students of all ages can learn to think like artists Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education changed the conversation about quality. Instead of using those behaviors to only assess work I’m using them to drive planning and instruction. The Studio Habits of Mind (developed by Harvards Project Zero) provide an effective and meaningful foundation to a choice-based elementary art classroom. Artistic Behaviors like “Artists Reference Culture” and “Artists Respond To Current Events” are some I’m planning to address with my Art Two class in the next semester. She is co-author of five books (Studio Thinking, Studio Thinking 2, Educating for Understanding, and The Project Zero Classroom, volumes 1 and 2) and over 100 articles. They’ve expanded from the original list of eight behaviors used mostly for assessment into the cornerstone of how I teach and plan. Originally AB were a reflection tool for students but they’ve evolved into much more.

Studio habits of mind book