![]() My students were introduced to SMoM the first week of school to use as a reflection tool about their own learning as artists and to introduce them to thinking in the shoes of their students. Great work, you all! Looking forward to hearing from you online, and for our upcoming guest bloggers: Lois Hetland from Project Zero/Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Dave Donahue from Mills College. Please note that Amana’s Art Esteem Self as Super Hero is featured as well as Peralta Elementary where Trena is artist in residence. Art Is Education Web site that highlights the 10-year anniversary of Alameda County’s Art Is Education work.Minnesota Public Schools Web site offers wonderful tools to help you plan your teaching using Artful Backwards Planner and Teaching for Understanding frameworks, as well as assess student learning using Studio Habits of Mind.Look at the Thinking Routines for short, guided discussions that your students can do together. Harvard Project Zero’s Visible Thinking site provides resources for creating a culture of thinking in the classroom.Teaching Tolerance: Amazing resource for culturally responsive pedagogy and tools for teaching in a racially diverse classroom, I LOVE THIS SITE for all of its resources.(Trena, I hope you’ll have your students read this as it might put a different spin on attaching meaning to color.) The Olivia Gude article on Color Lines from the Teaching Tolerance Web site is an excellent read.If you need more resources on culturally responsive pedagogy, I’ve compiled a short list of sites and articles that might be helpful to you (thanks Virginia), check them out at your leisure: She will be looking over our blog and your course blogs, and will be very interested in your thoughts. Lois Hetland, one of the authors of Studio Thinking, will be our guest blogger in the next two weeks. Understand art world? Reflect/Question/Explain? Other? Where do those activities belong? I really want to hear from our partners on this. I also will be interested to know where you will place the relationship building parts of your class. Identify the clusters and notice how they push and pull on each other. Which habits come up frequently in individual (or group) consults with students?. ![]() What habits are naturally built by particular activities?.What habits of mind do I tend to emphasize?.Please use the reflection prompts on page 109 to think about your own work in the context of your partnership: I know the examples represent ‘traditional’ visual arts classrooms (and our classes are anything but!), however, I would like us to re-orient ourselves with the studio structures and the 8 habits of mind, and to really look closely at our own teaching practice this semester. I understand we’ve given you a lot to read this semester, but I think it would be very helpful for all of us to read Part III, “Integrating Studio Structures with the Studio Habits of Mind,” pp. It’s great to hear your thoughts on the articles and your work with your students. Thanks to all of you for your postings the past month.
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