A collection of art education essays and art lessons
Could our teaching methods be weakening our students' minds? |
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Table of Contents - links to essays & lessons
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One way to begin an art lesson is to observe and practice. Here children are having direct experience and observation of a baby pig. Here I am asking them questions about the details of the pig's foot? They each made their own version of a clay pig using this experience and these observations. This image was copied with my digital camera from a slide taken during an art lesson about 30 years ago.
DESCRIPTIONS OF A FEW OF THE WEB PAGES on this website.
How to Plan Art Lessons by Marvin Bartel, gives instructions on what comes first, last, and in the middle. It has suggestions on motivation, keeping on task, and what not to do. Learn how to start lessons without showing a creativity killer example, at the beginning of the lesson. This is an extensive lesson plan. Most teachers carry it over several class sessions like a unit of study.
Idea Generation methods are essential to the work of any artist. These can be taught, but they are too often ignored in favor of teaching techniques.
Teaching with Questions points out the difference between teaching to think and teaching to follow directions. It is the difference between education and training. It is the difference between slave training and leadership training.
How to Teach Drawing to Children This page was reprinted in the Canadian Homeschooling Horizons Magazine March, 2007. I was originally inspired to write it by an inquiry from an Australian mother whose son, age eight, was feeling discouraged and wanted help in learning to draw better. - to top of page
These are links to some assignment pages from my classes in
teaching art methods.
Art
Education Assignments | Readings | Planning the Parts of
Creative Art Lessons
| Pass it
On - practice teaching what we learned
(teaching is great way to learn) | One-on-one
Teaching Assignment | Successful Art
Class Critique Sessions | Art Rubric | Study Sheet for test 1 | Study
Sheet for test 2 | An example essay answer
CLASSROOM RESEARCH TOPICS IN ART EDUCATION
1. Compare methods to teach children how to learn to come up with their own ideas for art.
2. Compare ways to help children learn to design experiments in art.
3. Compare ways to teach observation drawing and observation clay modeling.
4. Compare methods of motivation for media work.
5. Comparing ways to increase the imaginative power of children.
6. Comparing ways develop children's inventive powers through art.
7. Comparing ways that art teachers develop and assess new art assignments.
8. Compare types of teacher responses to art student requests for help.
9. Compare ways of developing collaborative creativity in the classroom.
10. Compare ways of developing empathy in the studio art classroom.
11. Compare ways to inspire students to learn without a teacher.
CONTACT ME if interested in more elaboration.
Good EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS are in short supply
Are you an art teacher interested documenting creative teaching techniques so that others can see and consider what you are doing? Should college and university classes in art education see how you are teaching creativity? Other teachers who are less informed or more frustrated may benefit by seeing how you teach. You no longer need a camcorder. I get some video with my digital camera. Some mobile phones can catch something on video.
CONTACT ME if you have some video of some good teaching and learning.
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Teachers are invited to contact me if you want permission to make copies and/or for some other kind of classroom use. You may always make a link to this page or any of my pages. CONTACT ME
BECOMING LINKED
If you have related topics, you may want to have your page linked from this web site. Please do not send a request to exchange links unless you have already linked to at least one of my pages. You may link to any of my pages that seems to relate directly to the topic of your page. Once your link to my page works, send me a note showing me the URL to the page that has a link to my page. If your link works, I will review your site for appropriateness and consider making a link from this page to your page. I am most interested in art, in ideas, and in education. In general, I link to very few pages that are marketing a product, books, service, or merchandise of any kind.
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