Session 2:

• The Breakdown

• 4-Part Lesson, Parts 2 & 3

• Evaluation

• Workshop Planning

Overview of this series

• 6 sessions (about teaching)

• 6 workshops (art)

• Deadline for completion is Dec 31,

schedule other than that is flexible

• Goal is for participants to gain

teaching tricks and confidence

Review of Session 1

• Teaching = creating relationships with individual students in order to

shape material to fit their learning needs.

• 4-Part Lesson = a useful approach, not a trap. (You need to know the

rules to break the rules successfully.)

• TIPS:

You’ve got to know the rules to break the rules successfully.

Teaching is a performance.

Keep the demo short.

If it results in a positive educational outcome and it’s safe, it’s good teaching.

• Homework:

What else can I provide to assist you?

What do you want to teach in workshops?

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THE BREAKDOWN

TIP: Whatever you’re thinking (your self-talk), say it out loud.

BACK OUT guidelines for drawing a dog’s head.

LEAD a draw-along of that dog’s head, using and explaining your guidelines.

4-Part Lesson

In simplest form: prepare, go over the lesson 3 times (demo, draw-along, practice on own).

Practice-on-own is important. It taps into individual creativity. It allows Lead Artist to deal with young artists’ needs one-on-one.

Parts 2 & 3 are activities.Activities can be tailored, or altered.

Goal is to DIFFERENTIATE.

Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. Whether teachers differentiate content, process, products, or the learning environment, the use of ongoing assessment, offering choices, and flexible grouping makes this a successful approach to instruction.

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Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind – Linda Verlee Williams

WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW

WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO

TEACH=THE

ACTIVITIES YOU DO

WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO

TEACH

=THE RULES ARTISTS CAN

BREAK IF THEY WANT

WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO

TEACH

Variations on Parts 2 & 3

Part 1 – Warm up & a little game

Part 2 – Guidelines for a cat (demo & draw along)

Part 3 –Textures (demo & draw along)

Part 4 – Mouse variation (extra demo & draw along for some students –differentiation)

Part 2 – Basics of panel composition for comics (demo with color coding for differentiation)

Parts 3 & 4 –Extended practice, independent projects & personalized help (differentiation)

Part 1 – Practice 3-D shapes & talk about fingers

Part 2 – Guidelines for a hand-wrist-to-elbow (demo & draw along)

Part 3 –Contour (demo & draw along)

Part 4 – Using contour to add armour/mech (extra demo during free practice)

Teaching CONTOUR

Part 1 – Review overlap, shading & shadow, introduce horizon (demo & draw along)

Part 2 – Use contour to expand on horizon concept (demo & draw along)

Teaching CONTOUR

Part 2 & 3 combined.

Content Process

Product Environment

• Use vocabulary that references all five senses.

• Review the lesson for some students during practice (part 4).

• Use a game in place of the draw-along for part 2.

• Provide different materials for students at different learning levels.

• Provide a variety of increasingly complex references.

• Offer (encourage) multiple choices for practice (part 4).

• Have students move around, work with partners or groups.

• Play background music to inspire and manage energy.

DIFFERENTIATION TECHNIQUES

ASSESSMENT/FEEDBACKGoals are: toughen, improve, expand thinking

• Build False Sense of Accomplishment

• Phony Flattery

• What’s Wrong

• Good/Bad

• Teacher’s Opinion

• Evaluate Product

Build self reflective skills

How does it demonstrate lesson goals?

How can we make it better?

Any progress?

Multiple sources of input

Redirect efforts

TIP: KEEP STUDENTS’

FIRST EFFORTS !!!

6 workshops

• 2-hours each, • all ages, • more than make-and-take

• Topics

• Dates/Times

• Approach (team teach or individual,

sequence or independent, repeats or one-

shot, etc.

June 24 – 12-2• Enriching

• Sequencing

• Promoting

• Confirm Workshop Basics

Homework:Calendar Participation Opportunities • June 22 Open House & Art Show

• June 25 Tony DeZuniga Art Exhibit deadline

• July 14 Draw Along at Barnes & Noble

• July 23 Art Battle at Barnes & Noble

Bring your own portfolio

Continue to plan what YOU want to do for workshops