When I taught Jr. Hi I always had my 8th graders do self-portraits looking in the mirror. I found that they
really liked the assignment and wanted it to look good so would take time and effort. I started by having them look at themselves and measure their proportions compared to one eye width--also line things up--like
lips and pupils etc. (they had already done blind contours of the person across from them and traced each other on acrylic). I think they did really well ...and about the maturity thing---I discovered that the boys always did better than the girls (to my chagrin) and that they were naturally more right-brained at that age since their left brains weren't done growing yet--aka not mature.
>>> scherenschnitte442000@yahoo.com 01/08/06 8:00 AM >>>
Hi, re the following, Maggie, I can't tell you how
many times I have thought the same thing as I read
about DBAE expectations and assorted lessons. (Though
I have to admit that I usually think this with regard
to lower elementary art ed.) Maybe we're to assume
that children's readiness re the arts is more
sophisticated than it used to be? I may be alone in
this, but my own philosophy of elementary art
education centers more on personal meaning than on
skill/concept expectations. oops, can of worms.
Happy New Year, all. J.
> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:21:30 -0600
I use Betty
> Edward's steps with eighth graders, but it seems the
> transfer of skills is
> very difficult in their self-portrait stage. I
> imagine Viktor Lowenfeld
> looking over my shoulder, saying to himself, hmm,
> it's still to early
> developmentally to be doing this!
>
>
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