Art
Our Lady of Peace Catholic School believes that art is a life-long process of interacting with the environment, expressing beliefs and integrating various cultures while reverencing God, persons and nature through creative expression.
Fostering art develops creativity, builds self-confidence, promotes creativity, provides for aesthetic experiences and transmits cultural heritage.
Art reaches students who may not be reached in other ways but also in ways that they are not being reached in other subjects.
The teaching of art serves as an instrument for learning about life, for it represents the past, interprets the present and imagines the future.
BEST PRACTICE IN TEACHING ART
The teacher who teaches art strives to increase the use of best practices in teaching art through:
- Choice and responsibility in art making
- Stress on the process of creation, the steps and stages of careful craftsmanship, and critical thinking
- Exploration of the whole array of art forms, from Western and non-Western sources, different time periods, cultures, and ethnic groups
- Supporting every student’s quest to find and develop personal media, style, and taste
- Using art as a tool of doing, learning, and thinking
- Integration of art across the curriculum
Music
Our Lady of Peace Catholic School music curriculum strives to foster academic, social, spiritual and emotional growth through the development of musical knowledge and skills, cooperative performance experiences and an appreciation and understanding of music in our history and culture.
The music curriculum is aligned with the 2008 Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in the Arts:
1. Artistic Foundations
2. Artistic Process: Create or Make
3. Artistic Process: Perform or Present
4. Artistic Process: Respond or Critique
The music program includes: general music education, band, Mass Choir, and fall and spring concerts.
BEST PRACTICE IN THE TEACHING OF MUSIC
The teachers who teach music strive to increase the use of best practices in teaching music through:
- Active practice of music
- Student choice and responsibility in music
- Creating music
- Believing music is an element of talent development for all students
- Exploring a variety of music from Western and non-Western sources, different time periods, cultures and ethnic groups
- Supporting students quest to find and develop personal music styles and tastes
- Integrating music across the curriculum
- Using music as a tool of doing, learning and thinking