Blog 22: 3-Column Chart

Okay, here is the link to my 3-Column Chart. If there are any problems let me know. : )

Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

Here is the link to the beginnings of my 3 column chart, and what Ogden said to do of it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1toLAk7SZygcr_Mkuz56EBGOqNtxOYfwbL1xi2y4Xcgs/edit

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 

I believe I have excelled most with the Effective communicator ESLR.

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

I believe I have excelled most with the Effective communicator ESLR with my senior project because in order to successfully use art integration you must not only be able to present you point to students but must make room to take the advice of the students and other teachers to improve your activities/ lessons so you have the perfect balance for your activities.

3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim (evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).

While working on my independent component I worked closely with my mentors to create fun activities that would help teach important core lessons to students. But while creating them I needed to pay close attention to my mentor and their thoughts on the activities because they are professionals in this field and know what student's like and what some of the best ways to teach them while also giving them something fun and creative to do. Listening to them can only help improve my activities.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/1QanbpshJ60YHxjcw8xruHvN1fZoOxdXNLCzUicUnDr6qI7j3KOlBj62M1F_6/edit?usp=sharing

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is the best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school?
2.  The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school is to create activities tailored to each lesson that gain the students' interest, have a good balance of art and content, and help relate what you want to teach the students to other things in the students' lives.
3.  a.)When you hold their interest there is a greater chance that they are paying closer attention to what they are doing or to what you are saying.

b.)Art is fun but if you don't have a good balance of content with the art, what you are doing is just an art activity for fun not a teaching activity.

c.)To be able to relate things to your students' lives can be a great way to help them remember something and understand what you are teaching them.
4.  Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences helped me create this answer because his book talks about how the different intelligences intertwine and work. Mrs. Clauss and Ms. Hodapp also helped me create the answer.
5.  I plan to look into different ways to improve the art integration activities I have created with my mentors and look into creating some more. I also want to see if I can work with some students with some of these activities and see how much they help the students and see where I need to improve them.

2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  What is your essential question?

What is the best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school?

2.  What is your second answer to your essential question (write your second answer in a complete sentence)?

The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school is to create fun, hands on, learning activities to help students review and comprehend the lessons they are taught.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?

a.) Students learn by doing- We can be told how to do something multiple times but until we do it ourselves we may never truly understand how to do it or the importance of doing it.

b.) Nav’s Notebooks- By going through the process of looking for or creating pictures to help represent important points in history our class was able to make reference’s to these things and therefor learn and retain the important history knowledge.

c.) posters and presentations- By having to present what they learn in their own words in a way that others may understand them students not only learn important life skills but they also gain a better understanding of what they learned. You can’t teach something to another till you understand it yourself.

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

My two mentors Susan Hodapp and Heidi Clauss by letting me sit in on some of their class and see students working on these activities and begin to understand things they would have never understood by just listening to some person lecture.

5.  What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?

With this answer I plan to look for different studies performed that help prove my answer and continue to work with my mentors and observe their working environments to see how it helps the students and how to improve the process even more.

Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component? 

I am currently looking at different types of art project ideas and looking to see which ones I could use for my lesson plan.

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project? The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November. Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.

I recently read an online article called Without the arts, education's grade is Incomplete By Jeffrey T. Schnapp. In this article Mr. Schnapp talks about how you can find art in many of the core subjects in school, yet we are getting rid of arts in general. He also states that too little art could diminish a child's learning, and by controlling it much could create terrible outcomes. This helps me get an idea of what could happen if art continues to be taken out of school. I learned that I need to watch out for how I teach art. I also learned that I may want to look for alternative ways to pay for art programs and more look up different ways to incorporate art into a core lesson plan for my independent component. (Stated above)

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched. 

http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/numbers.shtml

http://www.coreknowledge.org/mimik/mimik_uploads/lesson_plans/74/Making%20Connections %20Art%20and%20Music%20History.pdf

Blog 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

(1) What is the best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school?

(2) What is the best way to use art as a teaching tool in a classroom to help students learn?
(3) -The best way to use art as a teaching tool in a classroom to help to students learn would be to create a fun lesson plan that sparks the children's interest.
-The best way to use art as a teaching tool in a classroom to help to students learn would be to create hands on lessons that use art to help the children express what they are learning in their own way.
-The best way to use art as a teaching tool in a classroom to help to students learn would be to look at the a child's individual streangths and weaknesses and use art to hone their abilities to learn.

Topic Choice

Content

a. What is your topic and why?

• My Topic is Art and its effects on how children and teens learn certain subjects like Math, History, etc..... The reason I chose this topic is because it involved two things I truly love to do, Art and Teaching.

b. And what do you hope to accomplish this year with this topic (connecting your answer to each of the 4 ESLRs)

• iPoly Citizen: I plan to use the presentation and the communication skills I have learned from I Poly to not only improve them but to perfect them. By doing this during my volunteers hours I hope that my final presentation will be one of my best.
• Effective Communicator: During my senior year I plan to write down every thing critical that my mentors says and recording my interviews with my mentors so I can review what they say and make sure I understand what they say and if there is something I do not understand I will be able to look back at the notes I have taken and ask them to clarify at any time they are available to answer my extra questions. This will make me more effective as a learner because I will not just let all the information go in one year and out the other, I will be physically writing things down and reviewing it along with creating extra questions to make sure I understand what my mentor says.
• Effective Learner: I plan to write down and brain storm any questions I come up with at any available time so I will have plenty of questions for my interviews. I will also write down any important tips my teacher gives me so that I can look back on them later in the year. This will make me a more effective learner because I will not only be listening to what the person says but I can also look back on them and retain any information given I will need, and there is sure to be plenty for me to review.
• Effective User of Technology: I plan to use my laptop not just for a power point but to also show how to draw certain things to students. I will plug my laptop in to a projector and I will use one of the many art programs to help explain certain things. This will make me a more effective user of technology because I will not be using technology at the end during my presentation, I will be using it all through out the hole senior project.