So on Friday, Taryn and Amanda gave there lesson on positive and negative space using chance and gesture. It was an over-all amazing lesson that I would definitely love to include in my classroom, I'll be honest I don't remember what their thematic unit plan is about, but I did get what vocabulary and process they were programing into our brains. They did something a lot different then I had seen in any of the other lesson (Even my own), and it was really quite refreshing.
They started the class with a very brief discussion and then allowed us to dive right into art playing and experimentation. Compared to beginning with a lecture-like discussion on artists, concept and vocabulary words. I remember wondering how this was all going to work out. What I mean by that is, when we do have to have a lecture-like discussion, will the class be too pumped to concentrate and participate, or will our blood be moving so much that we will want to talk more and be involved?
So as the class progressed and we had to sit and talk about the interesting artists and their process' I noticed that the class was very involved and interested in what we were going to do next as well as how what we were talking about was going to be applied to the big white paper and our ceramic sketches. I feel like the tension between the art making at first, the discussion and then more art making was very conducive and effective. We wanted to learn, we wanted to listen, we wanted to play. It was also a good lay out to allow the students to digest a little bit before they got involved again with action and creation.
I feel this lesson was a great example of lesson and classroom construction to keeping students involved and intrigued as well as energetic but tamed all at the same time. We were given the freedom to create and move, but then had to practice patience and calmness so that we could once again have that freedom. This is definitely something I'd like to involve into my philosophy and practice within my own classroom.
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