Education in the Arts / GH / Fall 2023

  ------------------- Review art installation found objects readymade Marcel Duchamp nature art conceptual art Ana Mendieta earth - body art collage ethnosphere Parts of a lesson Learning Theories Competency Based Curriculum / MDCPS -------------------- Quiz 1 Installation Art, Nature Art, Naive Art (Drawing) and Collage 1. How can an installation art piece  be used to teach an academic subject? 2. Why is nature's art a valid way of bringing attention to ecology? 3. Drawing enhances learning of language arts. Explain 4. A collage develops several skills while allowing children to be creative. Explain. 5. A class could begin with music and warm up. Students can be invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's muscle groups - isolation warm up.  In class, we added conscious breathing at the end of the warm up, we could also add self-affirmations,  meditation , mindfulness and relaxation techniques. Why is this important for learners? 

 I Unit: Art Theme: Drawing   Introduction Drawing happens when one makes a picture or diagram with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint. For instance, "a series of charcoal drawings on white paper" are considered drawing. Modes of drawings can be broken down into three different types: realistic, symbolic, and expressive . II Learning Objectives   Understand why children face difficulties when drawing Explain Edward's theory about left brain-right brain Gain an awareness of the complexity of the brain  Experience the importance of drawing for children III WARM UP Mindfulness   IV   Creative Storming Students simulate the creation of a shaped object and pass it to the next student. Each student changes the object using hand gestures.   Question 1 Write a reflection about the activity and explain how you thing it could help your students.    ----------------------   V   Main Lesson   1   When one googles "why is drawing so hard?" One gets the following

    I  Unit: Student Learning   Theme: Collage   Introduction    To plan pedagogy effectively, teachers need to have a theory of how people learn.  They need to examine all factors relevant to learning.  Today, we will see how this works when organizing material for a collage based on the concept of the ethnosphere explained by Wade Davis. We will also get familiar with the work of Jacob Intilé in order to produce a collage that illustrates the interconnections of culture and nature. II   Learning Objectives       III   Main Lesson   1 Educational Article   Teaching and Learning: Lost in a Buzzword Wasteland   Question Let us read together paragraphs 1 - 3.  Let us discuss the rest of the article in groups. Group 1 1. How did teaching get this way? What be done to move teaching forward? (4th paragraph) Why do teachers pursuit simple solutions? (paragraphs 5 & 6)   Group 2 2. What does the lack of a validated model do? (paragraph 7) How do we break out of the unproductive cycle