WGU C105 Elementary Visual and
Performing Arts Methods Latest 2022
"CPS" ✔✔creative problem solving
What is Creative problem solving (CPS) ✔✔the process used to construct meaning and is at the
core of the arts. CPS is used to seek connections and synthesize diverse solutions
Critical thinking ✔✔is a part of CPS. It is a focus of the arts where quality is highly valued. In
particular, critique is used to analyze details and patterns, compile evidence, and apply criteria to
make judgments
skills achieved through arts ✔✔• Higher order thinking such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation,
including critical judgment
• Imagination and creativity focused deliberately on content and quality end products
• Prudent risk taking and experimentation
• Teamwork that relies on collaborative problem solving
• Technological competencies
• Flexible thinking and an appreciation for diversity
• Self-discipline, persistence, and taking initiative
integrate reading to visual arts ✔✔*Artwork is "read" in a way similar to reading word-based print
text.
*The reader/viewer must first perceive the work as a whole and then relate subordinate parts to
discover relationships and connections, along with important emphases.
*Making sense of any painting, sculpture, or artwork requires coordinated use of higher order
thinking skills (CPS), in the same way CPS is used to understand traditional texts
, integrate reading to drama/theater arts ✔✔Comprehension of dramatic texts closely parallels
thinking to understand any written work and performance is largely about interpretation of words
using CPS. Actors usually do a first read to derive big ideas in a script, which entails visualizing
the setting. They also zero in other literary elements to create meaning, especially the conflict or
problem, which sets the plot in motion (rising and falling action, crisis, and climax). Actors read
to analyze their characters' motives and relationships to other characters and the plot
integrate reading to dance ✔✔Viewing a dance involves nearly the same comprehension strategies
to those used in reading traditional texts, that is, coordinated CPS thinking. Dance compositions
are created about the same themes and big ideas that are at the core of the literary arts, again using
CPS
integrate reading to music ✔✔Reading a piece of music is virtually identical to reading print text
and includes decoding symbols for the purpose of making sense. Reading music notation requires
reading ahead, determining phrases and the overall structure, locating accents, interpreting
symbols and verbal indicators, and discriminating between the main and subordinate ideas.
Listening to music requires thinking, albeit aesthetic-oriented thinking to comprehend or
understand
integrate writing to visual arts ✔✔The composition process used to create a piece of art is virtually
the same as that for creating written compositions (e.g., preparing, data gathering, visualizing,
experimenting, revising).
integrate writing to drama/theater arts ✔✔The process used to write scripts and plays involves the
same thinking skills as creating any other form of writing. The difference is the writing form (e.g.,
script). The process includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing, which parallels
CPS
Performing Arts Methods Latest 2022
"CPS" ✔✔creative problem solving
What is Creative problem solving (CPS) ✔✔the process used to construct meaning and is at the
core of the arts. CPS is used to seek connections and synthesize diverse solutions
Critical thinking ✔✔is a part of CPS. It is a focus of the arts where quality is highly valued. In
particular, critique is used to analyze details and patterns, compile evidence, and apply criteria to
make judgments
skills achieved through arts ✔✔• Higher order thinking such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation,
including critical judgment
• Imagination and creativity focused deliberately on content and quality end products
• Prudent risk taking and experimentation
• Teamwork that relies on collaborative problem solving
• Technological competencies
• Flexible thinking and an appreciation for diversity
• Self-discipline, persistence, and taking initiative
integrate reading to visual arts ✔✔*Artwork is "read" in a way similar to reading word-based print
text.
*The reader/viewer must first perceive the work as a whole and then relate subordinate parts to
discover relationships and connections, along with important emphases.
*Making sense of any painting, sculpture, or artwork requires coordinated use of higher order
thinking skills (CPS), in the same way CPS is used to understand traditional texts
, integrate reading to drama/theater arts ✔✔Comprehension of dramatic texts closely parallels
thinking to understand any written work and performance is largely about interpretation of words
using CPS. Actors usually do a first read to derive big ideas in a script, which entails visualizing
the setting. They also zero in other literary elements to create meaning, especially the conflict or
problem, which sets the plot in motion (rising and falling action, crisis, and climax). Actors read
to analyze their characters' motives and relationships to other characters and the plot
integrate reading to dance ✔✔Viewing a dance involves nearly the same comprehension strategies
to those used in reading traditional texts, that is, coordinated CPS thinking. Dance compositions
are created about the same themes and big ideas that are at the core of the literary arts, again using
CPS
integrate reading to music ✔✔Reading a piece of music is virtually identical to reading print text
and includes decoding symbols for the purpose of making sense. Reading music notation requires
reading ahead, determining phrases and the overall structure, locating accents, interpreting
symbols and verbal indicators, and discriminating between the main and subordinate ideas.
Listening to music requires thinking, albeit aesthetic-oriented thinking to comprehend or
understand
integrate writing to visual arts ✔✔The composition process used to create a piece of art is virtually
the same as that for creating written compositions (e.g., preparing, data gathering, visualizing,
experimenting, revising).
integrate writing to drama/theater arts ✔✔The process used to write scripts and plays involves the
same thinking skills as creating any other form of writing. The difference is the writing form (e.g.,
script). The process includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing, which parallels
CPS
