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Re: [teacherartexchange] Teaching Meaning and Ownership?
From: Marvin Bartel (marvinpb_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Yes. Meaning and ownership are very important. These are few quick ideas to consider.
What are the important choices they have to make when working?
Do the choices offer too much freedom? Can they can fall back on whatever has worked last time instead of thinking of and practicing a new thing?
How much control do they have over the content for their work? How do they select the subject matter?
How much to they select from their own experiences, observations, ordinary real life experiences, and their immediate environments?
How many imaginary options and possible scenarios are generating before they are allowed to do a project based on imagination and invention?
How much advance notice do they have for what they will need to be thinking about and sketching in order to do the next assignment?
Do we do meaningful critiques after the projects are finished? Grades K to 3 may seem too young to do critique, but meaning grows from positive descriptive, explanatory, and interpretive discussions of the work after it is finished. Without critique, half or more of an art lesson is being missed.
Are the great exemplars being studied? I have seen great interest in the review of the lives of selected famous artists in grade two. Children are inspired seeing how and why these artists struggle to impart the importance that their art has for them.
How do they learn the importance of making the art about themselves and their interests? The Conversation Game technique may be another way to help them generate ideas that they own.
Marvin
>This is my fourth year teaching art and I am thinking
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