Education in Arts - H / Spring 2023

  I Unit: Teaching Theme: Learning Theories   Introduction Learning theories describe how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in teaching and learning. Understanding, developing our world view, acquiring or changing information, acknowledging and retaining skills are all part of Western learning tradition and theories.    II Learning Objectives    Understand how learning theories have changed from anicent times to the present Explain the differences betweeen early philosophers and contemporary theorists who wrote about education Gain an awareness of thedifferent learning theories Experience the articulation of your own learning theory III Main Lesson   1    https://youtu.be/w46bWxS9IjY Question 1 What do you think is the message in this video?  ------------------  2 Western Ideas about Education   a) ...

I Unit: Art Theme: Drawing   Introduction Drawing happens when one makes a picture or diagram with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint. For instance, "a series of charcoal drawings on white paper" are considered drawing. Modes of drawings can be broken down into three different types: realistic, symbolic, and expressive . II Learning Objectives   Understand why children face difficulties when drawing Explain Edward's theory about left brain-right brain Gain an awareness of the complexity of the brain  Experience the importance of drawing for children III WARM UP Mindfulness   IV   Creative Storming Students simulate the creation of a shaped object and pass it to the next student. Each student changes the object using hand gestures.   Question 1 Write a reflection about the activity and explain how you thing it could help your students.    ----------------------   V   Main Lesson   1   When one googles "why is drawin...

   I  Unit: Assessment  Theme: Mid-Term Quiz   Introduction Every semester I assess your understanding of the content covered so far. Just right before the progress report's dead line, you test your own abilities to retain some of the themes we have learned and experienced together.   Today's quiz evaluates how efficient I have been in communicating ideas about Education in the Arts based on your responses to the questions below.   II Objectives Understand the nature of self-assessment Make sense of the various concepts explored in class Gather an awareness of assessment that is conducive to further learning Experience what is like to put into practice the content learned in class   III Main Lesson    ------------ Review Installation Art Found objects Readymades Marcel Duchamp Nature's Art Conceptual Art Ana Mendieta Collage Ethnosphere  --------------------------    IV   A Note to Remember   Notice that t...

  I  Unit: Arts Education   Theme: Collage   Introduction    To plan pedagogy effectively, teachers need to have a theory of how people learn.  They need to examine all factors relevant to learning.  Today, we will see how this works when organizing material for a collage based on the concept of the ethnosphere explained by Wade Davis. We will also get familiar with the work of Jacob Intilé in order to produce a collage that illustrates the interconnections of culture and nature. II   Learning Objectives   III   Main Lesson   1 Educational Article   Teaching and Learning: Lost in a Buzzword Wasteland   Questions 1. How did teaching get this way? What be done to move teaching forward? (4th paragraph) 2. How do we break out of the unproductive cycle & move teaching forward? (8th paragraph) 3. What would such a theory of student learning look like? 2 COLLAGE A collage is an artistic composition made of various mate...