,We jumped right in and started our first unit on day one. I chose to wait on "housekeeping" items like rules, syllabus and how grades are weighted and get right to work. Students are "Exploring the Studio" through September 9th. They will engage in and complete a series of 8 activities that are designed to:
1-Teach students where things are in the studio- what they can use and what they like best 2- Get students to try out new ideas, media, tools and processes- they have the free to just give it a shot 3- Help students learn to juggle multiple assignments 4- Give students a "real world" example of meeting deadlines in my class. 5- Meet their peers- work together- exchange ideas The activities range from drawing to sculpture and art history to dyeing fabric. Each activity is designed to be completed in 1 class period, but students will have more than 8 class periods to get their work done. The last activities is building the website on which they will blog. The blog allows students to detail the process they use to plan, practice and finish projects. The digital display of their thoughts along with images of their work (at various stages in the process) permits be the best platform to gauge student growth. Please check out what we doing on Twitter @AFHSVisualArts.
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Megan Bader
9/14/2016 07:25:46 pm
I really liked how you did the first unit! It made me excited about the class from the first day because I was interested and didn't have to sit through an hour and a half of rules, syllabus items and things like that on the first day.
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