What is Color and How is it used?
Areas of Color Study
Value (lightness/darkness) of colors
How humans process color
Color's use in Advertisement
Color's relationship with mood
Color in traditional and contemporary art
Color schemes and color theory
Connecting Subjects
Color in marketing
Using color to diagnose color blindness
Psychological influence of color
Significance of color in history
Coloration of living things and what it indicates
What I Teach: ART
Nature for inspiration
Great masters from past generations
Websites/online references
Art supplies
Day-to-day experiences
Practice
Art should be a positive experience for my students
I need to personally continually seek improvement
I should use my skills to help others learn,
and in turn be willing to learn from others.
My job is to help students expand their talents.
Everyone has God given gifts.
Talents are to be used to bless others
There is either progression or stagnation
As children of the Great Creator, we all have potential to create beauty.
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Weekly 6
High School Art Teaching Course
Weekly 5
Metaphor for Teaching and Learning
Learning and Teaching Art is like a hike.
The Supplies You Bring
Tools
Supplies you bring on a hike makes the experience either more or less difficult, depending on how appropriate the supplies is that was brought. Likewise, the tools used to teach art or create it can make the overall experience less exhausting. Some tools are even absolutely necessary, like good shoes on a hike. Otherwise, the experience will be miserable.
Trail/Signs
Principles
The trail and signs guide you along the trail, ensuring that you continue down a path that has been proven to work. You can go off the trail, but it is often more difficult to reach the destination this way. However, while there can be new discoveries made by blazing your own trail, there is no shame in following the signs and trails that others have verified do indeed lead to your destination.
The Hiking Experience
Doctrine
On a hike, the experience is what motivates and encourages people to continue. As people enjoy the hike, the surrounding nature, and the overall experience, they gain their reason for continuing forward.
The same hike can be enjoyed over and over again, with the hiker having a new experience each time. Even after the hike is completed, and the objective is met, the real joy is in the experience of the hike, gaining the self satisfaction, seeing wonderful things, and coming back again. In this same way, I, as an Art Teacher, can continue to enjoy and learn from similar lessons I've learned in the past.
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1. Who am I and what motivates me?
2. How do I view those I teach?
3. What is my work as learner and teacher?
4. What is worth teaching?
5. How do I learn?
6. Upon what foundation are U.S. public schools built?
7. What is the role of school in society?
Weekly 1
What is the role of school in society?
Schools:
teach the rising generation
establish how a person learns
guide individuals towards their future careers
Upon what foundation are
U.S. public schools built?
Public Schools were established with the intent of improving our nation's success as a whole.
How do I learn?
I learn through listening to others, then testing it out.
I learn through personal hands-on experience.
What is worth teaching?
It is worth teaching my students how to express themselves through art.
I need to be sure to teach with how I act and the words I say, because students listen to both.
Especially with how I act, because if student's don't see my actions lining up with how I act, they won't learn what I am trying to teach.
Do I teach to follow instructions, or do I teach understanding so that innovation can be initiated?
What is my work as a learner and teacher?
Often people learn as they teach, and teachers must continue to learn. They are closely connected.
Specifically as an art teacher, I especially need to be willing to continue to teach myself, and must be willing to learn from any variety of sources, including from my students.
How do I view those I teach?
They come from any possible background,
so they all need to be treated with respect.
They are capable of becoming anything
Those that I teach are
Children of God.
Who am I and What Motivates Me?
It feels fulfilling to see progress in those I work with.
I love helping other people improve.
I love art.
I am a child of God.
What do the authors we read in class say about these questions?
Why is Christ known as the Master Teacher?
Christ taught by requiring us to act.
Weekly 3
John 13:1-17
Christ washed his disciple's feet, and invited them to do the same to one another. To me, this is one way that outlines the way Christ taught. He showed them how to do something, let them feel and experience it, and said they should do the same for each other. He also asked understanding questions, giving them opportunities to teach each other, and figure things out in their own mind rather than just telling them how things were.
Clear examples and explanations
clarified if they didn't have sufficient understanding
physically washed the feet
Opportunities for Application
Advised to do what he did.
asked thought-provoking questions
Christ testified and invited. He perceived the need/thoughts of his students, and taught according to their level of understanding.
Christ uses elements of Realism, Idealism, and Pragmatism. Because of this, he can teach anyone of any -ism.
Perhaps Christ was a master teacher because of what he withheld from saying:
"Holding His Peace".
Weekly 2
Find a pictue of Christ as I see him as a teacher. List some aspects of His teaching philosophy.
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