SMART ART begins with two steps:

  1. Each student discovers their strengths using two Inventories: Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles. This takes approximately 30 minutes once a school year. It is a short-cut to student success.  

  2. Then Blooms Taxonomy guides their thinking while they create a new art form using an idea, story or concept from any daily curriculum assignment. 

Two  Inventories

Multiple Intelligences: every human naturally excels in one or more intelligence(s). In 15 minutes take this survey and discover yours!  https://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/cgi-bin/results.cgi

Learning Styles: there four ways people learn information, usually dominate in two. In 15  reinforce strengths:

http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml 

HINT: there are actually two types of  Visual learners: Visual Picture and Visual Word ( Read/Write) below  

 Blooms Taxonomy: guides students through the Creative thought processes, step by step. 

    After Forty years of research by Benjamin Bloom and his students,at the University of Chicago, discovered in the mid-1990’s that to CREATE is the highest level of academic thinking.  Smart Art uses Blooms research  to promote artistic creativity  and academic excellence with any curriculum  or class level.   Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles pinpoint student strengths so they can use the most effective art form to express their academic thoughts. Smart Art hopes to be a type of ‘marriage’ between Artistic Expression and the Highest Academic thinking!   With a dream of permanently reviving students JOY in learning! 

      Other benefits: Blooms Taxonomy can teach students to recognize thinking skills.  Blooms steps act as a checklist for students. Students begin to recognize which thinking step they may have missed.