CFAC
Institutional Program Sector
Goal of this sector
Improving art and crafts education from an elementary level with appropriate institutional framework by creating realistic and formal infrastructure.
Who can join this sector?
Visual/Performing Art Schools, Cultural centers,Trusts,Society,Social welfare foundations, Any organization pan India for Art & Crafts development
Following are the activities done under this sector.
- Art & Crafts training,
- Teacher Training
- Workshop
- Seminar with Students and Parents
- Assessment
- Child art & craft Exhibitions
- Art Competitions (National and Regional Level)
- School / Center Collaboration with C.F.A.C and Monitoring.
- Institutional Collaboration
1. Art & Craft Training
CFAC
Analysis of activities –
With the progress of the era,there have been various changes in the field of education.Education is no longer dependent on conventional norms but on a scientific evidence. With the change in education policies, there have been significant changes in teaching methods. Creative arts/child art/ visual arts is one of the most important topics in education,especially at the elementary level. Studies by many well-known researchers, including Frans cizek, the father of child art,has made it possible to know a lot about a child’s characteristics through the practice of child art or creative work. The new education policy has given a special place to the practice of creative arts as a medium for the development of children’s learning knowledge and experience as they grow older. Therefore, the academic panel of CFAC which comprises of various renowned academicians, artists and skilled trainers are working regularly for better and effective infrastructure and developing an appropriate framework of the visual art & crafts education system at an elementary level in our country. CFAC’s academic panel has created a very significant curriculum/ syllabus and helpful textbooks for children that focus on drawing, painting, craft, creative expression, handwriting,calligraphy,study work, motivational lessons,lay-out of school standard study subjects etc., which are very helpful in improving their creative skills at the base level. Academic panel officials are observing and resolving the role of the instructor in every aspect of the curriculum including student activities, performance, advantages and disadvantages, all in a simplistic manner.
SYLLABUS FOR CHILD ART & CRAFT COURSES
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C.F.A.C has initiated the entire curriculum and planned activities in an organized way in order to teach the students from the primary level. Following arethe steps of cognitive and psychological development.
The aim of the art and craft training activity is:
To look at, enjoy and make a personal response to a range of familiar and unfamiliar objects and images in the environment, focusing on their visual attributes.
To explore and begin to develop sensitivity towards qualities of line, shape, colour and tone, texture, pattern and rhythm, spatial organisation and the three-dimensional quality of form.
To express ideas, feelings and experiences in visual forms and with imagination, enjoyment and a sense of fulfilment.
To experiment in spontaneous, imaginative and increasingly structured ways with a range of art materials, including pencils, paints, crayons, chalks, markers, inks, clay, papermache, fabric and fibre, and construction materials.
To explore the expressive and design possibilities of the materials within a range of two and three-dimensional media, including drawing, paint and colour, print, clay, construction, fabric and fibre.
To apply skills and techniques, demonstrating increasing sensitivity to the visual elements in their artwork.
Opportunities:
Following are the opportunitiesavailable in the institutional sector:
- Training of CFAC approved institutions in genuine beautiful,academic standard recognized syllabus.
- The students of art institutions have the opportunity to collaborate in the training sessions.
- Opportunites for employment as an art Instructor.
Beneficiaries:
Art institutios/ Centers associated with C.F.A.C., students of those institution, teacheraas well as society.
2. Teacher Training programs
CFAC
Analysis of activities –
Mostly general education and art education are considered to be the same. But the aim of both is different. Art education enoucrages students to express their feelings.Teachers have a lot of responsibilities and their role is very important in understanding and responding to the creative work of the child. For this, a skilled art teacher is needed and only a qualified artist can regulate a creative class. For this, a teacher should have the following eligibilities:-
- The teacher must be a practicing artist and as such the person should have knowledge of the necessitiy of practicing art in childhood.
- The teacher should have complete knowledge about all the stages of cognitive development of a child.
- Have a clear idea of the nature of child art and have a keen interest in understanding the work of the child psychologically.
- The importance of the surrounded environment should be analyzed in creative work.
- Be aware of how to handle a child`s creative work.
- Depending on the needs of the child the teacher should be able to identify anddetermine the medium, materials, etc. that would be best suited for the student.
- Must have the ability to initiatethe interested in creative work to a child.
- Above all, it is most important to have accurate knowledge of how to judge a child`s work.
Aim:
Through the Teacher Training Program, C.F.A.C’s Academic Panel trains veterans and teachers on Teacher Activities and Guidelines in every subject of the curriculum( i.e. art, craft, design). Therefore, C.F.A.C has arranged for the training of teachers to conduct the curriculum classes in an approriateand suitable way by fulfilling the main objective of art education.
In order to preparethese skilled art teachers, a teacher training program has been designed for the training of teachers in the A.T.D (Art Teacher Diploma) curriculum. Opportunitiesfor those who will to join the sector :
- The teacher training program supports teacher development by enhancing their professional expertise and making them well-versed, especially in the field of art, craft and design.
- Opportunity for artists to train to prepare themselves asthoughtful skilled art teachers.
Beneficiaries:
Art teachers,Art Instructors , Art Institutions and Art students.
3. Workshop
CFAC
Analysis of activities–
Art workshops are being organized with the students of the institutions, the subject of the curriculum and also some special topics affiliated with C.F.A.C. skilled trainers are offering trainings on behalf of C.F.A.C.
Aim:
This workshop is organized by skilled and experienced instructors for the special training of students in art education.
Opportunities:
Opportunity to take special training.It opens up job opportunities for skilled trainers.
Beneficiaries:
Qualified instructors, students, institutions and artists in various subjects of art will be able to be part of this workshop.
4.Seminar with Students’ Parents
CFAC
Analysis of activities –
CFAC is organizing seminars with parents on the following topics:
- To understand the importance and necessity of practicing visualart.
- To highlight the various aspects of higher education in the creative field in shaping the bright future of the students.
- Increasing the intellectual development of students through creative work.
- The effects and uses of different colours in our lives.etc
Aim:
C.F.A.C will be organizing seminars with students and parents on various topics such as promotion, dissemination and practice of art and culture for overall personal development and social development.
Opportunities:
- To explore different aspects of art education.
- Expansion in the knowledge of art and culture/teaching and learning.
- Beneficiaries: Students, parents and facilitators
5. Assessment
CFFAC
Analysis of activities –
It is important to evaluate every child`s activity.Usually at the end of the year,a standard test is conducted to determine the quality of the child`s efficiency.Determining the quality of the child`s creative work is not accurate enough in this process. Since mental development is a gradual process. So to determine the quality of the progress of the child`s creative work, C.F.A.C. judges the child`s tasks in various sectors from the beginning of the year as per the child`s age criteria.
Assessment is an integral part of teaching and learning in visual arts education. It contributes to a teaching-learning-assessing continuum that provides the teacher with valuable information on the child’s development in art and on the effectiveness of the teaching programme.
Assessment in visual arts takes place as the child engages in the creative process of making art, when a piece of artwork is completed and while making a personal response to artworks. This approach to assessment enables the teacher to ensure that the whole spectrum of visual arts education is reflected in the child’s learning and his/her teaching.
Assessment helps ensure that the programme is appropriate for the needs of the individual child. It helps to identify learning potential and problems and enables the teacher to choose appropriate teaching strategies. It also provides the teacher with a sound basis for recording and reporting the child’s development in art. Although much of what can be achieved in visual arts education is observable, assessment should not be confined to skills and techniques. It should also identify the understandings, the attitudes and levels ofcommitment and the responses the child develops in the process of making art and of developing critical and aesthetic awareness.
Roles of assessment: why assess?
Assessment can serve different purposes. Continuous assessment that takes place during the course of visual arts activities gives the teacher information on the child’s level of involvement, on his/her stage and rateof development and immediate learning needs. This formative type of assessment helps the teacher to plan the next step in the child’s learning and may suggest modifications to aspects of the visual arts programme.Problems may be diagnosed in visual expression, but this should be seen as one indicator of the child’s whole development and should be combined with other indicators for a complete assessment. Assessment is summative when used to give a periodic overview of the child’s development in the visual arts. This form of assessment can be useful to the child, to parents, to teachers and other professionals. C.F.A.C.completes the student assessment process through practical, written, submission and oral method.
For the convenience of proper management of the student’s assessment process, the online registration, student dashboard, institutional dashboard, external dashboar facilities have been added in C.F.A.C. website for uploading all data.
Representatives of the CFAC’s academic panel are constantly working to make the training and assessment process more accurate to improve the curriculum for the students.
Aim:
On completion of the course, students should be able to give a personal response to an idea, experience or another stimulus. Working from imagination, memory and direct observation and using drawing for observation, recording and analysis, as a means of thinking and for communication and expression. Also to use the three-dimensional processes of additive, subtractive and constructional form-making in expressive and functional modes. Understanding the art and design elements using a variety of materials, media, tools and equipment. Knowing how to use an appropriate working vocabulary and understand relevant scientific, mathematical and technological aspects of art, craft and design. Finally to appraise and evaluate his/her own work in progress and on completion develop an awareness of the historical, social and economic role and value of art, craft and design and aspects of contemporary culture and mass media.
Opportunities:
- To encourage creative work, students are being rewarded with various awards, certificates and scholarships based on their assessment results.
- Organizations involved in creative work training are also being given various awards, certificates and several benefits on the basis of work. Special facilities are provided for students with disabilities.
- There will be opportunities to get various collaborations from CFAC’s academic panel including different assessment methods and materials for the accurate evaluation of students creative work.
Beneficiaries:
All the learners, external examiners, institutional guests can benefit from these assessment activities.
6.Child Art & Craft Exhibitions
CFAC
Analysis of activities–
It is very important to organize an exhibition for displaying the art work of students. Because a showcase of their work, encourages the development of the creative mind of the students. Therefore, C.F.A.C is dedicated to organizing child art exhibitions at the regional and national level in collaboration with educational institutions.
Aim:
This exhibition is organized to encourage and motivate the students in creative art education.
Opportunities:
Students will have the opportunity to display their artwork and earn admiration.
Beneficiaries:
All the art learners will be benefitted by this child art & craft exhibitions.
7.Art Competition (National and Regional Level)
CFAC
Analysis of activities –
In order to encourage and motivate the students in the field of art, various competitions are being organized at the regional level in a joint venture of C.F.A.C and educational institutions. Along with this, the Child Art Competition is being held every year at the national level.In this competition, awards, certificates will be given to the students in different departments i.e. regional level, zone level and national level.
Aim:
In order to encourage students in art education, various art competitions are organized atpart of the initiative of C.F.A.C.
Opportunities:
There will be opportunities to get various benefits and honors including award certificates at different levels (i.e district, state, zone and national level).
Beneficiaries:
Students and judges will benefit from these art competition
8. School / Centre Collaboration with C.F.A.C and Monitoring
CFAC
Analysis of activities –
For associating with the CFAC’s institutional programs including overall activities, the art institutions,centre or organizations must take Affiliation of C.F.A.C.
The following criteria are required for collaboration with C.F.A.C.:
- The school/centre/organization must have the necessary environment and infrastructure for Art education.
- The school/centre/organization must be registered with any of the assistant departments or government agencies(Municipality/panchayat/ICA dept/Registrar of societies/Block) in its
- The school/centre/organization must have qualified teachers according to the students(minimum number of teachers).
- The various achievements and prior records of a school/centre/organization will be helpful to that school’s/centre’s/organizations for collaboration with C.F.A.C.
Following are the procedure to collaborate with C.F.A.C.
- First, the school/centre/organization has to be registered in the institutional sector of CFAC. After joining to C.F.A.C. through registration, the institutions have to apply for the collaboration and must fulfil all criteria.
- The C.F.A.C’s delegation will then visit the school/centre/organization and observe everything.
- Based on the report of the delegation, the institutional sector of C.F.A.C. will decide whether the school/centre/organization is eligible for collaboration.
- Note that in this process, C.F.A.C. will assist the school/centre/organization to acquire the collaboration criteria from the time it joins the institutional sector through registr ation of the institution/centre.
Aim:
The aim of this activity is through the development of training infrastructure, improving art and craft education and make student’s creativity including their overall development for a beautiful life.
Opportunities:
- Art students of the institution will have the opportunity to train in C.F.A.C’s academic standard curriculum and recognized syllabus.
- Students will have the opportunity to collaborate with C.F.A.C’s academic panel on textbooks, guidebooks,theoretical books required for their art education.
- Students will be able to join CFAC’s online learning sector and take training opportunities in various topics of the curriculum.
- Art teachers will get benefited through the Teachers Training Program and gain knowledge and proficiency.
- Students will have the opportunity to receive awards, certificate and scholarships at the regional and national level based on their performance.
- By joining CFAC’s information sector,students will have the opportunity to get more information about various higher education studies in art education in India and other famous institute colleges and universities outside India. (Art/craft/animation/textile/architecture/fashion/design/graphic design -Details will be given on Institutions, colleges, universities, Admission Procedures, Course Structure, Duration, Fees, Eligibility etc.)
- Through the development of the training infrastructure, C.F.A.C’s collaborative art institutions /centres will create opportunities for the promotion of institutional work.
Beneficiaries:
Art students, Art teachers, Art institutions and parents.
9. Institutional Collaborations
CFAC
Analysis of activities –
C.F.A.C. is establishing various relationships with other organizations, colleges, universities involved in the work of art education and art & culture which offers various benefits for the development of students, trainers, institutions and society.
Aim:
The aim of this sector is to provide more opportunities to the students, trainers and the need for development of our society. C.F.A.C has built a connection with the other foundations, colleges and universities that relate to art education and art culture.
Opportunities:
- There will be increased opportunities for students in the field of art education.
- There will be increased opportunities to develop the infrastructure of art educational institutions.
- There will be increased opportunities to propagate and spread art & culture for building a meaningful society.
- Beneficiaries: Students,reachers and institutions of C.F.A.C.