Small Unit

Small Unit                                                 ART 432                                  Roggenkamp

Create a small unit based about a central focus and appropriate for high school art curriculum and for high school students’ needs.  Use an artist or artwork from the Oberlin field trip.

Your unit should:

                  1.  Expose students to new aspects of visual art and or culture

                  2.  Teach new skills

                  3.  Allow for your students’ creative expression.

Planning your unit:

Identify your students

Choose a central focus/topic.  Research that topic: Due Oct 9

Justify your central focus/topic based on your understanding of these students

Consider academic language for this unit.

Instructing and engaging students: (prepare to discuss this in class)

How will you create a challenging learning environment?

How will you motivate or ‘hook’ your students?

What types of questions will you ask of students to get them involved in learning?

In what ways will you encourage/develop the students’ personal expressive artwork through this unit?

How will you develop understandings of the content you present?

How will you deepen and extend understandings of that content?

How will you use of representations/visual aids/demonstrations to further students’ understandings?

Writing Objectives:

Choose and list what specific lessons will be part of this unit.

Match them to the state art standards.

Write objectives and list standards for four lessons.  Due Oct 16

They should be measurable and attainable.

Assessment

Write one rubric, one quiz, one checklist. 

Write one informal assessment.

Write one student self critique sheet.   Assessments due Oct 23

Be prepared to discuss your assessments.

                                    Formative and Summative assessment. 

                                    Informal and formal assessment.

How will you have students analyze their work and use feedback?

How will you analyze use of language?

How will you use assessment to inform your instruction during the lesson to provide student feedback?  and after the lesson for future lessons?

How will you reflect on your teaching for the future?

Discussion Unit

Discussion Unit Information and Worksheet

Choose a topic by considering an artist, an artwork, a specific culture or a concept.  Choose something about which you could create an instructional unit comprised of 3-5 lessons.  Choose an idea that will relate to a high school art curriculum and to high school students’ interests and needs.

Your lessons should:

                        1.  Expose students to new aspects of visual art and or culture

                        2. Allow for your students’ creative expression

                        3. Teach new skills

Worksheet

Due Sept 30.  Answer the following questions on another sheet of paper.  Be complete in your answers.  Type/word process.

Choose a topic and research appropriate information about your topic. 

Topic:_________________________________________________________

Clarify your idea through class discussion then respond to the following questions.

Why this topic? 

How does it relate to high school students? 

How does it relate to expanding students’ art learning? 

Respond in writing to the following topics:

What new aspects of visual art or culture are your students engaging in?

In what way will the students be creative and express themselves and their unique ideas?

What new skills and ideas will be taught?  

What media and technique ideas? 

What art language ideas?

Identify individual lessons and give a general sense of what will be taught in each lesson.  (3-5 lessons)

Choose one lesson to expand into a lesson plan using the AU lesson plan format.  (Lesson due Oct 2)

short assignments for September

Select an artwork to analyze using Feldman's analysis method.  Share your analysis.  Due Sept 16.

Changing and improving an already existing lesson plan.  Due Sept 11.

Lesson plan assignment due Sept 9.  Choose an artist for this lesson.

…a better place

How To Make the World a Better Place.  Due Sept 2                  Roggenkamp 432

Big Idea: Use your art to say something personal about the world around you.

The student will:

            Use the theme to design and create a unique piece of artwork.

            Expand their skills with collage, watercolor and marker.

                        Collage cannot be more than 40% of the total work.

            Will use the design concepts of repetition, focal point and contrast.

            Will have a color theme.

            Incorporate text into their artwork, creatively and as part of the composition.

Will write about how the design concepts of color, repetition, focal point and contrast support their conceptual idea.

Sub lessons:

            Brainstorming for idea.

                        Preliminary drawing.

            How to use watercolor and marker with collaged elements.

            How to artists use color systems, repetition, focal point and contrast?

                        Look at several artworks and analyze.

            How is text incorporated into designs.

           

Time needed for:

exploring each lesson. 

researching and for preliminary design. 

Working on artwork

Reflecting on and revising artwork

Writing

Critique

Assigned reading: www.arteducators.org/news/CB_Child_Development_2.2.12pdf

NAEA website: child developm

ART 432 Syllabus

EDCI 432         Teaching Art Grades 7-12

Fall 2014     Ashland University

Priscilla Roggenkamp

Office:  346A, 419-289-5194         Cell: 330 428-0126

Email:proggenk@ashland.edu

Office Hours: 11:00-12:00 and 3:00-4:00 T/Th and by appointment.

CATALOG DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to provide the student with classroom instructional skills, methods and strategies in teaching grades 7-12.

COURSE CONTENT

Students will teach, create teaching materials, examine and create curriculum, and discuss all aspects of teaching visual art in grades 7-12.  The primary focus will be on identifying and establishing best practices in visual art programs.

Required textbook:  None.

Original Work: All work for this class must be original work completed by the student.  This refers to artwork as well as written work.  Any lesson plan ideas from another teacher, website, book or other source should be cited.  Failure to do so will be considered plagiarism. Review the Academic Integrity policy or speak to me if you are in doubt about this policy.   Violation of this policy could result in a failing grade for a project or test. 

STUDENT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

10% Worksheets.

2o%  Lesson plans, the discussion unit and the small unit.

25% Design Unit artwork.

20% Peer Teaching Practice.

25% Final Unit. The written unit is due at finals time and discussed throughout the last two weeks of class.  There are several discussion topic due dates as well.

Professional presentation is expected for all assignments, studio or written.  Identification (your name), date, proper spelling and grammar, clear word processing, clarity of language and well-prepared studio work all factor into your final grade for each assignment.  Lack of these qualities of professionalism will result in lower grades.

Field Trip:  There will a field trip to the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin.  Students are required to attend and participate.  Your final grade will be lowered if you do not attend this event.  If attendance is impossible the student must consult with the instructor to make up this experience. 

Participation is expected and encouraged.  Though it is not a percentage of your grade, it is a quality that could raise or lower your grade as much as a letter grade.  (The difference between an A and a B.)

Due Dates:  It is expected that assignments be turned in by the beginning of class on assigned due date unless otherwise stated by the professor.  Grades for late work will be lowered as much as a letter grade per day.  Students should confer with the professor if extenuating circumstances exist.  (An email stating that you will be absent does not constitute a conference on this topic.)