Education in Arts / Fall 2020

    Visual Thinking Strategies: Terra Foundtion Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a learner-centered instructional method used to examine and find meaning in visual art. Using a painting from the Terra Foundation collection, Samuel F. B. Morse’s iconic Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33), Yenawine facilitates a VTS discussion, followed by an examination of how the discussion was constructed. Classroom and museum educators and docents interested in learner-centered teaching methods will find this video to be a very useful resource. VTS Discussion Process Observe a painting What is doing on in this picture?  Facilitator paraphrases What makes you think so? Facilitator paraphrases What more can we find? Facilitator paraphrases What makes you say that? Facilitator paraphrases What more can you find? Facilitator paraphrases What did you see that makes say that? Facilitator paraphrases   ------------------------- QUEST

Making Music This lesson is the same as the music lesson on the previous Monday, due to the fact that VTS could only be taught on Wednesdays, Thus, The Monday class took the music lesson on Monday last week, and the Wednesday group took it on Monday this week.     Question  Write your reflection about the warm up routine developed by this teacher. Quesiton What is problematic about this teacher's style and lesson? Question Compare and contrast this lesson on beat and rhythm with the previous lesson. ----------------------------- ACTIVITY  Students will play an instrument and try to create a collective harmony with the rest of the class. ------------  Class Work Students will create a lesson plan using MDCPS' Competency Based Curriculum. Search for website Choose Subject Choose grade level and grade Look for Component Match objective with your lesson idea Choose competency Describe Content (Concept) Describe Learning Activity Create Assessment  

      Visual Thinking Strategies: Terra Foundtion Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a learner-centered instructional method used to examine and find meaning in visual art. Using a painting from the Terra Foundation collection, Samuel F. B. Morse’s iconic Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33), Yenawine facilitates a VTS discussion, followed by an examination of how the discussion was constructed. Classroom and museum educators and docents interested in learner-centered teaching methods will find this video to be a very useful resource. VTS Discussion Process Observe a painting What is doing on in this picture?  Facilitator paraphrases What makes you think so? Facilitator paraphrases What more can we find? Facilitator paraphrases What makes you say that? Facilitator paraphrases What more can you find? Facilitator paraphrases What did you see that makes say that? Facilitator paraphrases   ------------------------- QU

    Question  Write your reflection about the warm up routine developed by this teacher. Quesiton What is problematic about this teacher's style and lesson? Question Compare and contrast this lesson on beat and rhythm with the previous lesson. ----------------------------- ACTIVITY  Students will play an instrument and try to create a collective harmony with the rest of the class. ------------  Class Work Students will create a lesson plan using MDCPS' Competency Based Curriculum. Search for website Choose Subject Choose grade level and grade Look for Component Match objective with your lesson idea Choose competency Describe Content (Concept) Describe Learning Activity Create Assessment  

  QUESTION 1. After watching the video,  what is the main argument presented?  --------------- Please read the document below.   Scientific Proof About the Arts and their Influence on Learning                             Tyler, Christopher W.   Final Workshop Report: Art Creativity and                                               Learning.   National Science   foundation, 2008.                                                 https://www.nsf.gov/sbe/slc/ACL_Report_Final.pdf QUESTIONS  (Please, be succinct and use your own words) 2. On page 4 of the report, dance and music are said to be important to enhance learning. Explain in your own words why that is true. 3. In which way is visual art learning useful for cognitive  processes? Give examples. (Page 4-5) 4. On page 16, last paragraph, you will see listed the kind of thinking skills and working styles taught in art classes. Why are they important for education in general. 5. On page 18, the

QUESTION 1. After watching the video, what is your opinion of Jacob Intile's collage work?  2. Why is collage work important to him? ------------------------ COLLAGE Collage, from the French: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together"; is a technique of art creation used in the visual arts, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms that become a new whole.  ------------------------ QUESTION Go to the link and read, on page 9, "A Brief History of Collage."  3. What is problematic about the assumption that Picasso and Braque are the creators of this technique?    A Brief History of Collage -----------------   In lay terms, a collage is a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.  ACTIVITY 4. Create a collage with magazine cuttings. Materials: Glue, magazines and backing.  Give it a title Write a synopsis explaini

  Teaching and Learning: Lost in a Buzzword Wasteland   ------------------------------- A brief introduction to Learning Theories --------------------------- The 5 Educational Learning Theories Behaviorism : Behaviorism is using reinforcement and punishment techniques to encourage or discourage certain behaviors. The environment around us shapes us because we are blank slates and so the behaviors of others can influence our behaviors as well. We can be conditioned to follow certain behavior patterns by the people around us. An example can be rats who push the lever everytime they get food and then keep continuing that behavior of pushing the lever to get more food. Their behavior of pushing the lever has been conditioned by behaviorism.  Cognitivism : Cognitivism focuses more on the mind and the thinking process through reading texts and lecture instructions. People who learn this way are often thought as information processors. People are ration