Teaching blog

I wanted to thank everyone for making last Octobers meeting so energizing. I also wanted to share a bit of what I am doing this year with all of you in the form of a teaching blog. Your insights, comments and questions are very welcome.
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Exciting workshop opportunity!

Do you wish that your administrators, colleagues and parents of students could glimpse the unique learning happening in the visual art classes? Or, have you ever seen an amazing display of art work at a school and wondered how the students created it? Or, how the teacher taught the lesson so that you could teach it too?
"Documentation" inspired by the Reggio Emilia schools in Italy and "Making Learning Visible" (MLV) from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education are two processes through which teachers can display the process of artistic creation as well as the products. Through this method of displaying student work; the art teacher shares the specific learning happening in his or her classroom; it is a great way to include the wider community in the learning happening in the visual art classroom.
Art instructors interested in learning about these approaches and applying them to their own teaching practices may participate in a program starting this fall. The program includes a Saturday workshop in September as well as two brief follow up meetings in the late fall and early winter. Participants will also be asked to fill out a brief email survey before and after the program.
K-12 Art teachers interested in participating or who have further questions, please contact:
Lisa Ostapinski
lostapinsk@yahoo.com or l_ostapinski@cais.org

Notes from April 25th art teachers get together

We spent a beautiful morning in the new MS art room of the Katherine Delmar Burke school A big thank you to Adra for starting the group and our hosts Lori & Yara.

Introductions
small group break out discussions: my group discussed projects: here are some of the highlights.

We talked about felting (perhaps even a demo day of projects), cut and fold projects, each teacher had a project they mentioned, teaching strategies like project zeros critique rubric. Town school shared their art calendar ( HRS, plans to steal this idea :) )

We wrapped up by planning this blog and future meetings.

Testing, Testing 1-2-3

Here is small sample of student work from The Head Royce School. Silk-Screen's ala POP Art. Class: 2D art: Michelle Avery