Blog Topic #1

1.    What did you learn about your current VTS skills from self-assessing Video #3 from last semester?  

I think I am doing o.k. for a beginner.

2.    What do you think you are doing well? (What did you see that makes you say that?)

I consistently gestured and paraphrased. I asked for evidence about half the time.

 

3.    What do you think you need to work on? (What did you see that makes you say that?)   

I need to work on the quality of my paraphrasing. I repeat, but don't scaffold.

4.    What behaviors/skills will you focus on developing and/or improving during the semester? 

Scaffolding my paraphrasing. Differentiating to accommodate the various attention spans.

It's a small world.

Chapters 1-3

Teaching Meaning in Artmaking by Sydney Walker

I've seen this before...............

                                              .................. in the GT curriculum class I took this past fall at UALR.  

One curriculum model we explored was called the Integrated Curriculum Model,  developed by Joyce VanTassel-Baska. It incorporates what Chapters 1 and 2 are talking about. For my final curriculum unit, I used the overarching concept of systems. 

The essential questions I used to guide my unit were

1.     What is photography and what are some of its purposes?

2.     How are the camera obscura, the modern camera, and the human eye similar?

3.     How does light move and why is it important for photography?

4.     What are the components of the camera and how do the components work together to produce a photograph?

5.     How can photographers use cameras to capture unique images of everyday life?

6.     How can students develop strategies for looking at objects/situations from different points of view?

7.     How can students effectively evaluate artwork?

To help find the overarching concept and essential questions, I made a series of a concept maps. Cmap was awesome, and a free download.

As I was reading the chapters, I visions of the following checklist kept popping up