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(re)vision of today's K12 classroom. - Coggle Diagram
(re)vision of today's K12 classroom.
Teaching Methods
Hands on learning
Art is very experimental. Kids should learn from their mistakes and failures. Don't hold their hands when they haven't even started. Let them slip up on the pottery wheel or get the time wrong when developing photos.
Putting students in charge of how they would like to learn. This can be by giving more open ended projects that lead to self discovery as well as building the students self awareness for how they learn best.
I love hands on work! I feel like it can help you understand the work more than you would if you were to only watch the instructor. I feel like it should be encouraged to get your hands dirty and actually get a feel for what the material really is.
Instructions
Teachers should keep instructions short and simple. STOP talking! Kids don't have a long attention span and odds are your class isn't the only one they've had to sit throuh. Art should be fun and experimental. Show them the basics at a max of 10-15 minutes then let them go.
Introduce instructions and needed knowledge for assignments first and then letting students experiment on their own as well as in collaboration with their students. Then reflecting on their experience and relating it back to the lesson.
Experimenting
Art is never, NEVER meant to be the same as another students. Don't force your student into a box where they HAVE to follow a instructions to a T or they fail. This will discourage young artists. Art is meant to be a kind of experiance you learn about yourself from. It's meant to explore your creative freedom not hinder it.
Assign instructions that leave students with the ability to add personal ideas, connections, and room for growth with learning.
Experimenting allows more exploration and room for trial and error. I think that you are less likely to be frustrated (you or your student) if you've figured things out for yourself.
Classroom Setting
Open Classroom Dynamic
Allow space for students to move around and interact with with their peers.
If possible GO OUTSIDE! Enabling students to learn in an environment outside of dismal classroom settings while still learning material will be more likely to have greater learning benefits.
An open classroom is much better than a closed in space. It increases the amount of influences and ideas they can come up with.
Organized Space
Keeping an organized space to help promote focus and avoid over stimulation in the learning environment.
Use color to provoke creativity in an organized fashion.
Keeping an organized place can help students practice being more routined and encourage the idea that in order to do something productive you have to be organized.
Agenda Boards
Posting weekly agenda boards to allow students to be thinking ahead at what is being worked on in class.
Engaging
Students who can't sit still should not be forced to do so. Sudents who need to move sould be allowed to to better engage in the classroom.
Technology in the Classroom
Using technology and letting students experiments on their own with technology is vital for the ever changing digital world we live in as artists today.
Showing virtual galleries in class to not only teach students about the art world but to also let them experience the virtual world
Using technology in the classroom allows students to progress towards modern ways of thinking and can expand on what they are able to learn.
