Discovering the Bonzo Art Standards!

The Bonzo Art Standards reflect the essence of the reward for discovering through learning. The standards embrace beauty through mystery, creativity through risk, and discovery through play. The result of these pedagogical building blocks establish the overarching principal that you remember what you feel. When the five senses are applied to learning through discovery then both sides of the brain are working together to retain information due to controlling the speed of the brain allowing retention to take place.

Bonzo Standard One:

Beauty through Mystery- All left brain subjects such as math and science provide doorways unto themselves revealing their never ending discovery. It is within this realm of mystery that we find beauty itself.

Bonzo Standard Two:

Creativity through Risk- Rewards largely come from risk. Wether we are first learning how to walk or we are playing the stock market. Everyone is wired together in a unique creative manner. Everyone therefore has a the creative gene or creative fingerprint. Mistakes become our greatest teachers if we are not afraid to take risks.

Bonzo Standard Three:

Discovery through Play- When information is first presented to the right side of the brain, the intuitive and emotional realm, then the joy of discovery takes place as it is not sabotaged by the left side of the brain first.

Bonzo Standard Four:

Life = Choices Art= Creative Choices

Art is not just about drawing/painting etc. Art is all about attitudes and perspectives. We study other artists to discover their perspectives on life. We make choices every hour of our life. We have the option to make safe choices, risky choices and creative choices. The creative choices are always the best choice because they get us to move forward and take healthy risks that embellish out lives.

These standards are a combination of the rigor standards presented by Robert Morazano and Daniel Bonnell. Robert Morazano’s standards can be found at https://www.learningsciences.com/media/catalog/product//e/s/esdc_lookinside.pdf