A Learning Community

Frye Art Museum
Roxhill Elementary School
Visual Thinking Strategies

A three-year program designed to build an innovative and sustainable school--museum partnership and bring art into the lives of students, teachers and families is celebrated in a new documentary short, A Learning Community.

The program—an in-depth partnership between the Frye Art Museum, Roxhill Elementary School and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), --includes innovative professional development in which teachers practice VTS in the classroom and in the museum, and students engage in art viewing and discussion as a tool for collaborative learning and critical thinking.

After three years of training, Roxhill teachers now lead their own school visits at the Frye and feel empowered to use the museum as a resource for learning. Students engage in art discussions, make observations and inferences, provide evidence for their ideas and respectfully agree and disagree with each other.

As a fourth-grade Roxhill teacher reflected during a recent training session at the Frye, "VTS is one of the opportunities for struggling students to feel success. Those who don't usually participate will [now] get involved."

This partnership was made possible with support of the Frye Foundation and the Wyman Youth Trust.

We would like to thank all of the participating students, teachers and staff at Roxhill Elementary School.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• VTS
• Frye Art Museum
• Visual Thinking Strategies
• Roxhill Elementary

[JenJenlovesu2]

MR. ROBERT!!!! HAHA HE'S AWESOME! Roxhill <3

I love it when we do VTS ! Haha Clyde <3 Sammy <3 Ms.Dellino <3 <3 <3

All the teachers <3 :DDD

[tofubandito]

Awesome!