January 2012
29 posts
4 tags
5 tags
Secondary Unit
This was taught to a group of 7th & 8th grade boys in a history class. The school we taught at separates boys and girls, and groups them 5th/6th grade and 7th/8th. Class sizes are around 12 students! They were learning about the Civil War in their class, so myself along with 2 other girls did a printmaking unit. We based it off of the idea of stamps— both the Stamp Act as well as postage...
4 tags
4 tags
2 tags
4 tags
4 tags
3 tags
Gallery opening was great Friday night! About 200 people came, it was amazing!
4 tags
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
5 tags
3 tags
6 tags
Revised Student Teaching Plan
It has stayed more or less the same, with some rearranging… and then I’ve fleshed out each unit a ton more— planning vocabulary, breaking them down into the lessons, assessments, etc. I will post tons of details as I’m teaching them over the next few weeks! But here is the update!
Kindergarten- Pinch pots, talking about Native American pottery
1st- Eric Carle prepared...
2 tags
FYI
Now that I’m gathering my art to put on my website (currently it only has drawings and paintings— and I need to add more of those!), I have it in one location on my desktop. I still need more photos of older works, but I have them mostly together.
This means I am starting a HUGE QUEUE of posts of my artwork! One a day for the next 3 weeks, at least. Get excited. :)
4 tags
My (still in progress) website! →
4 tags
Elementary Unit
This is a unit I taught along with 2 other girls in September/October. These students do NOT have an art class normally, so while they were in 3rd grade, they are not as advanced visually as students would be if they had art on a regular basis.
With this unit we had to have a literacy connection, we did a mixed fall setting. The literacy connection being that we were creating a setting with...
1 tag
3 tags
sgtpepperss asked: hi nicole, im dayna, and im currently in my first year of college and going for an art education degree :) i've really been wanting to talk to someone about all this but haven't found anyone in my degree. If you could help me and answer some questions i would really appreciate it!
3 tags
5 tags
Just wanted to say
That I am BEYOND excited to student teach. January 30th needs to hurry up!!!!!! The children will love me. It will be so incredibly fun.
I get more antsy the longer I temp in offices in dc…… I need to be in the classroom!
I have a website!!
Of course I will still update this, since blogging is easier to add to. It is nice to have a website where I can post all of my work where it is easy to see at once!
The exhibition I am in will be having catalogues of all of the artists— bios, contact information, websites. So I’m trying to get this site done before the 20th! That way people can come in, view my site, and maybe...
5 tags
Student Teaching Ideas
Suggestions/thoughts from any current teachers/artists are welcome! A lot of these are vague, some more so than others. In elementary, I’ll start teaching just one grade, then each week pick up another, and I’m not sure which ones I’ll have the longest, or what the mentor teacher has been doing with them. So some of these might change! Here are my ideas so far.
Any/all...
5 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
Studies Explore How to Nurture Students'... →
“We live in an era where everything that can be automated will be,” he said at the Learning and the Brain research conference last month. “Only individuals who can regularly go beyond the conventional wisdom will be valued.
“While cognitive capacities are obviously valuable for creating,” he said, “only those of a robust, risk-taking personality and temperament are likely to pursue a...
2 tags
Ms. Leah, HBIC: Adaptions in Art for Special Needs... →
levimoonflower:
Adaptions in Art for Special Needs Students
General Suggestions:
- Be aware of the goals on the student’s IEP in order to help the student achieve personal goals. It might be a more important goal for the student to learn socialization, to complete a task, or develop fine-motor ability than to make a work of fine art.
- Relaxing background music or headphones may help a...
4 tags
Later this week I will queue up some posts about the two units I taught this past semester!
One was a mixed media fall setting unit with third graders, the other was a postage stamp inspired relief printing unit with 7th/8th graders!
Both were great experiences. All of the artwork turned out great!
Expect more posts like these next semester when I start student teaching!
2 tags
December 2011
33 posts
2 tags
Entering 3 pieces into a juried show on Thursday! I’ll know Saturday which ones (if any) were accepted. Wish me luck!
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
1 tag
Grades!
A in 4 classes, A- in 2! Dean’s List for the 5th semester in a row, 6th semester total. (I only was NOT on the Dean’s List for 3 semesters.)
Semester GPA of 3.897, cumulative GPA of 3.7 exactly! I should probably add that this was the most difficult semester to date, with an insane amount of work, teaching two units, taking two studio classes, plus writing papers and everything...
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
4 tags
