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Essential Question:
Essential Question:
How might our own studio expertise lead to ideas for teaching?
What makes artmaking meaningful?
Today's Agenda:
Today's Agenda:
Warm-up
Unpacking the readings
What factors lend meaning to an artmaking experience?
A brief dive into the history of Art Ed
Analyzing our own work thematically
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
I can identify strategic thinking in my everyday life, artistic practice and teaching practice.
I can collaborate through conversation to arrive at a deeper understanding of the readings and their underlying implications for teaching and artmaking.
I can identify patterns, themes and authentic characteristics in my artmaking practice and those of my peers.
Warmup
Warmup
Strategies for success in this course, in future courses & the Virtual World
Strategies for success in this course, in future courses & the Virtual World
Help a person out!
Add your favorite strategy from the list that you generated to this Jamboard so that we all may benefit from one another's' wisdom.
Unpacking last week's readings
Unpacking last week's readings
Check out the Padlet and let's discuss!
Please share your resonant idea OR your point of friction OR your question (you choose!)
What connections did you make between the two readings?
Breakout rooms:
Breakout rooms:
Discuss:
What is the most memorable art project from your PK-12 experience?
What was the most meaningful?
Are they the same thing?
Why or why not?
What makes an artwork meaningful to the maker?
Please come back prepared to share the main points of your group's conversation!
Let's take a break before we go further
Let's take a break before we go further
Picking back up:
Picking back up:
How do we facilitate a meaningful experience for our learners?
How do we facilitate a meaningful experience for our learners?
Where does this emphasis on creating meaning come from?
Where does this emphasis on creating meaning come from?
Thin Slices, Big Ideas-- a brain dump activity
Thin Slices, Big Ideas-- a brain dump activity
Looking at your peers' Call and Response artworks, jot down descriptive words/phrases that come to mind on this Jamboard.
Looking at your peers' Call and Response artworks, jot down descriptive words/phrases that come to mind on this Jamboard.
Let's acknowledge that we are making snap judgments here-- you may not feel that you know enough about their work yet, but please consider both their Call and their Response artworks as a "thin-slice" of their current practice.
Each was made under different circumstances, but what common threads connect them?
Checking for understanding: How does this relate to our overall objective in this course? Why might we do this before hearing one another's Artistic Practice Presentations next week?
Reflection:
Reflection:
Locate yourself on the Jamboard slides.
Locate yourself on the Jamboard slides.
-What words do you see? Do they resonate with you or not?
-What words do you see? Do they resonate with you or not?
-What visual evidence might they be noticing in your Call and your Response pieces that would compel them to respond in the ways that they did?
-What visual evidence might they be noticing in your Call and your Response pieces that would compel them to respond in the ways that they did?
-Does your "artistic DNA" shine through in both pieces? In what ways?
-Does your "artistic DNA" shine through in both pieces? In what ways?
-What Big Idea(s) do YOU think run through your work?
-What Big Idea(s) do YOU think run through your work?
For next week:
For next week:
-Read & Take Notes
-Read & Take Notes
Walker: Table of Contents, Introduction & Chapter 1. - PDF
Take note: What is a big idea? What is the relationship between a big idea and a theme and a subject matter? How do essential questions relate to Big Ideas? How do essential questions relate to assessment?
-Add to Strategies Archive:
-Add to Strategies Archive:
Strategy Assignment #3 - List/generate 4 strategies from other classes that you are currently taking.
Be specific while describing the strategy. What did the teacher do? What did the learners do? What do you think the purpose was, and was it effective or ineffective? Why?
Summary of what must be created in your shared Google Folder:
★ Artistic Practice Presentation - 4 minutes of visual/verbal content about your work. Please be prepared to speak about the "what," the "how" and the "why" of your artistic practice while showing us visual representations of your work/process/influences.
4 strategies from other classes that you are taking - specifically described
Optional additional readings about Big Ideas
Introduction to Big Ideas - blog post
What is a Big Idea? - blog post
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