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[teacherartexchange] apathetic art students-21st century teaching
From: Frances Rice (francyfree2_at_TeacherArtExchange)
> This is in response to the art teacher whose students eyes look glazed over. I am currently a master's candidate at Lesley University. My program is all about integrating the arts. One of the major focuses of our program is being aware of multiple intelligences and how we as teachers can address the varying learning strengths and needs of students. Howard Gardener's theory is nicely explained in reference to actual teaching experiences in the book Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong published by ASCD. Another idea that made a tremendous amount of impact on me was discussed in Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's book Understanding by Design. The idea is that students need to have meaningful, real world purposes and audiences to motivate them to do their best learning/work. Perhaps if your students had an art project such as creating environmental installations on campus or presenting an art show for their families they would
> I also have recently studied quite a bit about visual literacy. There is a company selling a curriculum that suggests a once a month discussion of a work of art to promote academic growth across the curriculum. The website (http://www.vtshome.org/) has a video demonstrating the questioning technique and a list of the three most important questions to ask. You don't have to buy the curriculum to use the technique. There are plenty of online web resources such as MOMA that provide internet access to art collections.
> My son that is in middle school loves his art class. I was surprised that they have a ten minute daily entry task which is a written assignment. (Generally my son is not fond of writing.) Sometimes it relates to the concepts they've studied such as line, and sometimes it is a self assessment of what aspects of an activity were enjoyable, or how they used a concept such as shading to create impact in a drawing. Here is a cross curricular activity that supports communication about the arts, encourages higher level thinking skills and reflection, and makes for better writers.
> Another great website that might help you get some inspiration for how to excite students is George Lucas Educational Foundation.
> Having a few new tools in your educators tool kit will help you have a happy feeling when you walk through the door of your classroom. Your students will respond. Don't give up! These students are lucky to have art, and lucky to have you for a teacher, because you care enough to want to make a difference!
> Frances Rice
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