TQS Ⅰ
Teachers demonstrate mastery of and pedagogical expertise in the content they teach.
Element A
Teachers provide instruction that is aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards and their district's organized plan of instruction.
Student Working Example
A month-long unit, this Ceramic ⅠⅠ lesson is based in the third Colorado Visual Art Standard Invent and Discover to Create; focusing on building from the student's previous skill level with more specific and intentional conceptual approach. Centering on duality, the students dew connections and defined the term both from the world around them and personal experience, ultimately choosing a specific theme to detail within two forms with some examples being: poison/medicine, aggressor/victim, life/death. After ideation in their sketchbooks, the students practiced becoming proficient in ceramic repetition by recreating the same size cylinders on the wheel to be stacked to an ideal height and shape. With further demos in surface decoration, research into contemporary artists and a class mid-point critique, the students got to work communicating their artistic voice through a variety of techniques such as additive/removal processes and different underglaze methods. Ultimately each artist approached the project from a different angle which resulted in each student to problem solve through obstacles and come to understand at a deeper level the ways in which society communicates through duality, and how they can use the concept as a resource beyond the classroom.
Teaching Materials
Student Artifacts
In Progress Work & Planning
Finished Artworks