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?
