Exit
Interview break down
- What is your
essential question? What is the best answer to your question
and why?
EQ:
“What is the best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle
school?”
Best
Answer: #4 The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle
school is to create art integrated activities using a basic
understanding of art integration, each individual classes, pedagogy,
and what you are teaching.
I
chose this for my answer because it takes into account multiple
things that my research said was important for a student's learning
ability.
-A
Mind at a Time by ….Melvin Levine (Back round on how to teach and
the differences between students.)
-ARTSEDGE:
What Is Arts Integration? …. Kennedy Center (Great back round and
information on what art integration is)
- What process did you
take to arrive at this answer?
In
order to arrive to at this final answer, I went through 3 different
answers:
Answer
1; The
best way to use art as a teaching tool in a middle school class is to
improve the first and/or second learning experiences by creating fun
interactive learning experiences.
While
this answer is important and considers the timing of when you
introduce the art integrated activities you still need the basic
knowledge to create the activities.
-Heidi
Clauss/ “Picture This”article by Hilary Oswald
Answer
2; The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school is to
use art integrated activities in a stable, encouraging, sanitary, and
creative learning environment.
If
a child feels unsafe they are going to not want to participate in the
different activities no matter how interesting. But while this is an
important answer to consider, when compared to my best answer I
noticed that my best answer was better tailored to my essential
question leaving this answer more suited to by my extra note
-Classroom
Environment | Classroom Quality Standards.... NC State University &
the book “A Mind at a Time” Some of the chapters go into what
happens when a child is put down or puts themselves down
Answer 3: The best way to use art as a
teaching tool in middle school is to have a balance of art and
content.
When looking at this answer
compared to my best answer I realized that an educator will be unable
create a balance between the art and content in their activities if
they don't have that basic understanding that my best answer gives
-Heidi Clauss
- What problems did you
face? How did you resolve them?
Some
problems I faced during this project are as followed:
-Trying
to find a good place to mentor at till I was old enough to work with
my mentors at Las Palmas middle school.
To
resolve this problem I had to contact different schools and teachers
in the San Dimas school district. Luckily I had a neighbor who was in
the district who was able to get me in touch with Mr. Jacobs a
teacher at Lone Hill, giving me a place where I could work n a
classroom environment and see the dynamics of a different environment
other that the ones at Las Palmas.
Another
major problem I faced was during the time I was reading my print
sources like Cognitive
Psychology and Instruction. There were a lot of things that were
difficult to understand. And with the chapters all being extremely
long it was difficult to say focused and understand what they were
saying. Luckily since these were books my mentor had given me and
books she had already read she understood much of what the chapters
were saying. That plus many of the more difficult books had summaries
at the end of each chapter or even a glossary at the end of the book
I was able to understand much of what each chapter was talking about.
EX:
Lexical Network a memory network in which the names of concepts are
stored
- What are the two most
significant sources you used to answer your essential question and
why?
The
Two most significant sources are....
-ARTSEDGE:
What Is Arts Integration? From the Kennedy Center, because it gave me
a more in depth definition into what art integration is and it lead
me to different sources that I could use. It also played an important
role in backing up my best answer
-“A
Mind at a time” written by Melvin
Levine because it gave me a great look into how a student learns,
making it so I could see where I could use art integration to improve
a child's learning.
- What is your product
and why?
My
product for my senior project is that I have gained a better
understanding of how to integrate things that a person may not
usually enjoy with things they would. I will be able to use this in
the future when I build my career camp. I will be able to take the
things a student likes and show them how to integrate it with the
future careers.
I mostly learned this from my
mentor-ship with Heidi Clauss and my other two best sources
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