Experience
Engage, Explore, Express
Effective customized arts learning can look different for various artistic disciplines, age groups, communities, and purposes. Students may encounter cultural arts by visiting a museum, attending a performance or presentation, learning from a guest artist, or experiencing curated multimedia. Given the variety of cultural and artistic resources available to arts learners, high-quality customized arts learning experiences follow the CAL Framework (Engage, Explore, Express) to empower students to approach cultural arts traditions with understanding and use their experiences to deepen their own artistic viewpoints.
In this section, toolkit users will find information and resources to help students:
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Inquiringly engage with artwork from diverse traditions
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Actively explore cultural arts through experiences with cultural insiders
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Reflectively express their learning as they create, perform, and respond as artists
Engage
Students approach a cultural arts tradition with inquiry as they notice details in a work, share what they think, and wonder what more they can learn. Click the tabs below to read about each Framework Step.
Explore
Students explore the tradition through an artistic cultural experience with an artistic cultural insider through a school visit, field trip, or multimedia experience.
Express
Students show what they have learned as they debrief about the experience, respond through artistic processes, and reflect on how the experience impacted them. Click the tabs below to read about each Framework Step.
Experience Resources
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