Creative Process

What we learned about the creative process...

In leading and creating this workshop, we combined prior knowledge from our majors in education and landscape architecture with new skills we learned through CPSA260 about classroom management, lesson planning, facilitating group discussion, and implementing assessment strategies to create a workshop that effectively taught and addressed the learning objectives outlined for the Ephemeral Art Workshop. Each week we created a lesson plan on a new topic and for each new medium, it was imperative that we did proper research to create engaging activities to encourage student involvement. These lesson plans were created with as much detail as possible to ensure participants could complete the activities and reflect as a class in the given amount of time. A significant portion of this workshop was student participation and group discussion. Using our experience as a students and the resource provided in CPSA260 titled “The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies” (CultofPedagogy.com), we were able to plan engaging discussion questions and activities to prompt our participants to be active throughout class. Two  strategies we found to be most effective were gallery walks and think-pair share. These strategies allowed participants to reflect on the ephemeral art mediums we worked with and process the impact each medium had on them. Overall, through carefully detailed lesson planning and discussion, our participants were able stayed engaged throughout the thirteen weeks of the semester, gain a deeper understanding of ephemeral art, and inspire us with their work and insight.