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Re: "Doctoring" Student Work

From: ARTNSOUL12
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 20:44:11 PST

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    I never touch my students' work! In the beginning of a lesson I always
    demonstrate techniques or proper use of the medium. If students asks me for
    "help"- the kind that means "Can you do this for me?" I ask them to ask
    another student who they feel is successful to help them. Sometimes I will
    ask another student to help. Many an ego can be built up using this method as
    I try to seek out the quiet, less popular, or inclusion child to do this.
    Sometimes I will re-demonstrate on another piece of paper. Another example-
    I will show my class a way to draw but I will always preface this with " I am
    going to show you a way to draw a face (some little tricks), however, you
    don't have to make the nose, eyes, etc. look like mine. You're the artist,
    so you decide how you want your art to look!" "Fixing" their decisions
    denotes "mistakes" and undermines confidence in creativity.
    I will never forget my art teacher pulling a brush out of my hand and
    "fixing" my painting when I was a child....I remember thinking that I had
    liked that flower where I had put it... maybe this is why I feel so strongly
    about this.... Susan on Long Island 

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