Instructional Delivery
Teacher Demonstration
An "I do", where the students just watch. Whether it is learning to paint, draw, sculpt, use a camera manually, or build a 3D rocket with lighting and animation... I perform a demonstration for the students to witness the concept, technique and strategy.
Guided Practice
An "I do, you do". This technique follows an introductory demonstration but continues during the breadth of the lesson. I often repeat the demonstration several times in small chunks and then allow time for the students to apply the same concepts to their own work.
Self-paced Video tutorials
Learning a new software can be very difficult which is why I blend the learning with a learner's paced video tutorial that compliments the teacher led demonstration. Students can pause and rewind to work at their own pace and even take the learning outside the classroom.
Making Thinking visible
Philosophical Chairs is a routine I use to get students talking more about design. The students debate the concepts of art objectively by using the elements & principles of design.
Learner-paced video tutorial examples
Digital photo
Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom are very complex softwares to learn. After my demonstration and/or guided practice, I provide a link to a video tutorial I made as a safety net to help the students complete the assignment at their own pace and keep the momentum of the learning moving forward.
Yearbook Augmented Reality
This video was created to not only teach the students the method but will continue to be a resource for them to access during the whole semester.
3D modeling & animation
This interface is one of the most complex. This lesson was "guided practice" and the video tutorial is to allow opportunities to stay caught up or my favorite when students choose to work ahead.
Art 1
This lesson is both teacher demonstrated and taught as guided practice during the duration of the unit. The video was created to provide a learner paced environment.
Demonstrations and guided pratice.
- Before we paint, we learn about color theory and brush application through exploration
Creative color wheel. How to mix colors and use the color wheel as a tool.
Brush application and color theory.
Gradients using tints and shades. Desaturating by adding a color's opposite.
2. Now we put the explorations to work....
Painting teacher demonstration example
After several color theory and brush application practices we finally get to paint a picture. To teach this lesson, I demonstrate each of the steps below at the start of the day. Taking into consideration of the time it takes to demonstrate, and get supplies in order, each student will spend two days on each step.
Step 1: Undertone, shadows, and highlights. Using the Glaze application process
Step 2: Start adding color using a glaze application working back to front.
Step 4: introduce back, middle, and foreground colors. Thin glaze to start and layer with thick. Color theory, warm vs. cool, and color tones and saturations.
Limited color palette to simplify the lesson by using only 5 paints. This is where our scaffolded learning in color theory gets used.
Making Thinking visible
Trailer for philosophical chairs
Preview our debate topic to get an idea.
