Review / Mid-Term Assessment

 

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 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.

 

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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

 

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Main Lesson 
 
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Review

Installation Art

Found objects
Readymades
Marcel Duchamp
Nature's Art
Conceptual Art
Ana Mendieta
Collage
Ethnosphere
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A Note to Remember
 
Notice that this assessment is based on an honor system. My objective is that you explain these concepts in your own words.
 
 
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Discussion Questions 
 
 


1. How can an installation art piece  be used to teach an academic subject? Give examples according to your own field of studies.

2. Why is nature's art or environmental art a valid way of bringing attention to ecology?

3. A collage develops several skills while allowing children to be creative. Explain.

4. Class could  begin with music and a warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's muscle groups - isolation warm up. 

In previous classes, we added conscious breathing at the end of the warm up,  self-affirmations,  meditation, mindfulness and relaxation techniques.


How and why would you implement the warm up done in class so far in your future lessons?   


5. Why is conceptual art important in the teaching of academic subjects?

 6. Readymades and found objects facilitate the art production of children (k-12). Explain.

7. In which way is the concept of earth-body a useful idea to promote love and respect for nature among elementary and secondary students?

8. What is the importance of Ana Mendieta's work in the context of education in the arts? 

 9. What did Marcel Duchamp imply when he considered certain kinds of art "retinal"?

10.  Both Brian Petro and Jacob Intilé use similar techniques when creating their pieces. In which way is their work significant for students with little or no budget for art production?

11. According to A. Huberman, what is the relationship between divergent and convergent thinking in relation to dopamine and the creative process?

12. Based on the discussion we had in class about beauty, what is your own concept of beauty? Dialogue with the philosophical definitions given in class.

 13.  Why is it important to have a teaching philosophy before accepting a teaching position?

14. Why is wabi-sabi a useful philosophical frame to stimulate students to make art?


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Activity

 

 PRAXIS

 Gather with your group and device a mini-lesson designed to teach one artistic activity of any genre (poetry, drawing, painting, music, dance, theater, etc) referencing Black History Month. 

 

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Journaling


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Glossary


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Sources


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Students' Work

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