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ART JOURNAL 1

  • Writer: Kelsey Meyer
    Kelsey Meyer
  • Feb 19, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Mar 13, 2023

Entry No. 1

2.19.23- 3.13.23

thinking:


List 10 important things that you will consider when you teach art

1) Culturally responsive pedagogy

  • Ability

  • Skill level within content

  • Learning styles

  • Culture

  • Family traditions

  • Family structure

  • Race/ethnicity

  • Immigration status

  • Age

  • Educational background

  • Socioeconomic status

  • Religion

2) What art do I expose my students to?

  • Old masters vs contemporary

  • White vs nonwhite artists

  • Female and queer artists, in addition to the norm of male artists

3) Approach any subjects in art

  • Politics

  • $

  • Racism

  • Sexism

  • Immigration

  • Environment

  • Culture

  • Food

  • Relationships and love

  • Science

  • Emotions

  • Fantasy/make-believe

  • Etc.

4) Connect with each student and their family

  • Getting to know you polls

  • Positive call home to family!

  • Understand home life/ social life and its affects on students and parents

5) Collaborative Studio space/classroom with students

  • Collaborative Spotify (school appropriate)

  • Some choice in assignments/Student-led art

  • Student built norms/rules

  • Peer Teaching

6) Culture of Growth Mindset!

  • Praise effort, not just quality

  • Meet students where they are at

7) Teaching creativity as a life skill not an art skill

  • Creative thinking is helpful everywhere!

  • Makes students marketable for future jobs

  • Helps in other content areas

8) Interdisciplinary art curriculum

  • Work with other departments!!

  • Relate art to life skills!

9) Don’t be the sage on the stage!

  • Especially in art- Facilitator of education and behavior not a dictator of knowledge

  • Student lead demos/activities if they want!

10) Learning life skills over content is okay

  • Social- Emotional Learning

  • Life Skills

  • School isn't just for learning academic content


MAKING:




I made a linocut/linocut print of a disco ball to represent the many things I want to incorporate from my teaching practices. A disco ball is made from hundreds if not thousands of pieces of mirrors, and when light is shined onto it, it reflects and spreads and dances around a space. Like a disco ball, my teaching practices will be built from taking so many things into consideration- my own experiences with K12 and university level education, those of my peers, friends, and family; the different results of studies explaining the advantages of different pedagogies, classroom set-ups, or content formatting; and also things like making room for the ideas my students have, and what their needs will be based on their personality, interests, and skill-level.

The disco ball represents my content. I, as a teacher, am the "light". And the way the light shimmers and dances around the room? That's what it looks like when students are learning, applying, and transferring skills from my classroom.

The disco ball is a really fun visual, and I think is a great metaphor considering the many working parts that go into making a good teacher!


REFLECTING:

  1. Why do you think these 10 things should be included in your teaching? Why would they be important to you and your students?

  2. Any previous K-12 learning or teaching experiences influence your list? Please state it.

  3. If there is any education theory influence your formation of the list, please share in your response as well.

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  1. I think the things I outlined in my list are EXTREMELY important to teaching. They make a classroom feel welcoming, which is conducive to learning and growing. Learning is the purpose of schooling and so I feel that these ideas are important to both students and teachers even if they are not explicitly aware.

  2. I believe it would be impossible to separate my K12 experiences as a student and/or collegiate experiences as both student and teacher, especially acknowledging the fact that I have wanted to be a teacher since I was 7 years old, in 2nd grade. These ideas take a myriad of observations from K12 schooling and combine it with concepts, theory, and new ideas from my education courses to really understand what I've made into my role as a teacher.

  3. Arts integration, TAB, Anti-Racist Teaching, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy all have been theories that have heavily affected how I view my teaching philosophy

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