The art room is a great place to create art, but it also is a place to learn how to use your creativity and imagination in more than just art class. As we have already learned from last week’s strategies, the child’s mind is a precious thing, and as teachers we must do all we can to fill them. The instructional strategy of cues, questions, and advanced organizers focuses on the enhancing the student’s ability to retrieve, use, and organize information about a topic. (Pilter, 2007) The art room you have to learn from what you see and what you feel. Your success is based on what you see and how you mimic it in your own work. Then you develop your own style from how feel as you work on the projects.
There is a lot of organizing and brainstorming software but to me nothing beats a sketchbook and a teacher that pushes the students to better themselves every day. The sketchbook is an invaluable tool when a student is developing their skills. It also retains the info that they have retained and they can return to when doing projects. If you will, a cheat sheet that they can refer back to years down the road. They still will be referring to these books when they are in high school.
The one thing that I really enjoyed a lot this week was the concept map theory. It can help so much when the class does it’s art history projects. The map allows the students to see the basis of all the facts and it gives the students that visual learning style that helps the mind retain more. An important fact within the art room.
"Think openly, Draw hard!"
Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). Using technology with classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
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With this theory we automatically think about the technology. There are so many great pieces of technology to use with students, but I like how you mention the sketchbook. There are a lot of pieces that are best with paper and pencil. Just because so much of our lives are moving to technology, there are still very important pieces that should still be used. I am not a very "artsy" person, but when I bring technology into the pictures I fell like an artist! It can help make some one like me enjoy art that much more.
ReplyDeleteCreating any type of art is in itself constructionism. The sketchbook is a low-tech constructionist tool that in my opinion should not be replaced. I recall in college the art students who carried a sketchbook everywhere. You never know when you will find a perfect opportunity to create art!
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