Today we introduced ourselves with an art reproduction. There were many suggestions listed about how we should formulate the curriculum for this course. We will try to make this class integrated, practical, useful, collaborative, and open-ended. I am expecting to learn from all of you as your learn from me and each other. We will all need to take responsibility for ourselves and each other as we learn and teach. Emily and I will create some art workshops for each class. Next time we will explore some common drawing media (materials) and processes (techniques).This time we explored soft sculpture as an introduction to how art might be helpful in teaching other subject content like language arts, science, health, etc. Also, we explored a justification for learning about contemporary discourses in not only art but other subjects too. Your assignment is to read Chapter 1 for next time. Also, think of a metaphor for teaching and have one ready for next class... (for example, what is a good teacher and learner like to you?). Finally, think about how you are going to archive all of your lessons and prototypes so you will be able to use them in the future (in your efforts to secure a position, in curriculum development, and in this course's evaluation). Here is the syllabus so far, but we will be adding content as we go along. Soon, each of you will present a lesson in class. As Nancy pointed out, you will have created at least one prototype for each class.
Websites used in class: http://www.instructables.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg
http://www.be-art-website.com/index.php?in=10013
http://kidrobot.com/content.cfm?section=dunny
http://www.friendswithyou.com/
We also created soft sculptures in small groups, designing, planning, and drafting a "recipe" for others to see our process... Here is one of my daughter's drawing plans for her squid...
My Story for the soft sculpture:
Tanya the Tomato Colored Elephant
Josline was an elephant who loved tomatoes when she found out that she was going to have a baby, she ate tomatoes all of the time, when her baby came, her skin was dyed red. Josline named her Tanya. Once Tanya was grown she would get teased by all of the other elephants, they called her the Big Tomato. Tanya decided that she didn’t want to be teased anymore, so she woke up early in the morning, and sneaked over to the caves next to where the herd had stopped for the night. Tanya woke up to hear here mother calling out her name, by mid afternoon the other elephants where calling her name also, Tanya was surprised that the other elephants were worried about her at all. One of the elephants named Jasmine, was walking around the caves, and saw a small line of red against the grey of the rocks, Jasmine called out “Tanya is that you?” Tanya stepped out from behind the rocks, with tears streaming down her checks.
“What’s wrong Tanya?”
“Everyone keeps teasing me because I am red.”
“I’m sorry we shouldn’t have done that.”
Tanya and Jasmine walked back to where the other elephants were and the other elephants when they found out why Tanya ran away they felt very bad, and apologized for being rude. The other elephants felt bad for calling Tanya names, and decided that no matter what is on the outside, it is on the inside of the elephant that matters.
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Some other things we discussed the first day... What is important to remember when teaching: - integration (multiple learners, abilities, understanding, etc) - make it practical - make it individual (ENABLING CONSTRAINTS) - collective/share - DON'T STOP LEARNING!! I love what Dan said as 2 of the most important rules to being a good teacher are: 1. Love your students (must love to have the spirit, must have the spirit to teach) 2. Love yourserlf (KEEP LEARNING!) (You must be a good learner to be a good teacher!) We talked about integrating art into the curriculum (using it as a tool in other subjects, use art as A WAY OF KNOWING). One of Dan's teaching philosophies is to take responsibility for your own learning. What would you like to learn in this class? What would you like to get out of it? What are you interested in? THINK ABOUT IT! Some ideas/interests I heard were: - photography - scrapbooking - cooking - reading & writing We are all born with the capability to be ANYTHING (we only think we can't do somethings because somewhere along the line someone told us we can't....DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU YOU CAN'T!) You were supposed to come up with your own teaching metaphor. The first thing that came to mind for my teaching metaphor is a rhizome because it grows in all different and sometimes unexpected directions and builds on each other and continues to grow as time goes on and really doesn't ever stop, as it builds on what's already there (sometimes altering itself in the process) and builds on other rhizomes.
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