"Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is a nationally recognized choice-based art education approach to teaching art. Developed in Massachusetts classrooms for over thirty-five years, and through courses and research at Massachusetts College of Art, the Teaching for Artistic Behavior concept enables students to experience the work of the artist through authentic learning opportunities and responsive teaching.
ARTISTIC BEHAVIOR
instruct in multiple ways
assessment process
students’ artistic behaviors, needs and accomplishments
broad enough to affirm student differences
with self-reflection writing
sharing, curating exhibitions and conferencing with the teacher
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TAB and Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction is defined by Wikipedia as:
"Differentiated instruction (sometimes referred to as differentiated learning) involves providing students with different avenues to acquiring content; to processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and to developing teaching materials so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively, regardless of differences in ability."
Differentiated instruction goes hand-in-hand with the TAB art center-based curriculum design and the lesson plans designed to differentiate learning. All lessons that I design and instruct involve a ten-minute mini-lesson that introduces the main idea and problem of the lesson. This can be done with the use of my laptop for Internet use that is visually displayed through a document camera or an Epson projector. I can read books aloud to the entire class with the book itself displayed below the document camera to incorporate reading literature to the students. Searching for artists and artwork is also another way that the children can explore online art galleries and museums while also reading literature via the Internet.