Development of competency-driven materials and instructional modules for grade 1-12 arts domain

Abstract

Textbooks are integral to teaching practices and are important mediums for teachers to transform curriculum guidelines into an experiential curriculum. This paper explores the principles of approaches to developing art competency- driven materials through the following three instructional modules: 1.“Me? Me! We ...,” which promotes the application of digital technology among elementary schools; 2.“Discover the Beauty of Taiwan,” which focuses on the esthetic education of junior high school learners; 3.“Design Thinking of Making Lamps,” which integrates arts with math, physics, and health and nursing subjects for senior high school learners. We adopted the design-based research (DBR) method comprising five steps: preparation, design, implementation, evaluation and modification, and publishing. This study proposes suggestions for art teachers and textbook editors’ to help them transform curriculum guidelines of the art domain and develop art competency-driven principles, aesthetic design principles of textbooks, and trial teaching.