Feb 19 / Self-Assessment: Mid-Term Quiz

 

 

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 Unit: Self-Assessment

 Theme: Mid-Term Quiz

 

Introduction

Every semester I assess your understanding of the content covered so far. Just right before the progress report's dead line, you test your own abilities to retain some of the themes we have learned and experienced together.  Today's quiz evaluates how efficient I have been in communicating ideas about Education in the Arts based on your responses to the questions below.

 

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Objectives

• Understand the nature of self-assessment
• Make sense of the various concepts explored in class
• Gather an awareness of assessment that is conducive to further learning
• Experience what is like to put into practice the content learned in class
  

 

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Main Lesson

 

VOCABULARY

1. Teaching Philosophy Statement:

Your teaching philosophy is a self-reflective statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning. ... It develops these ideas with specific, concrete examples of what the teacher and learners will do to achieve those goals. Importantly, your teaching philosophy statement also explains why you choose these options.

 

2. Mission Statement:

A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of its operations: what kind of product or service it provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of operation.

 

3. Vision Statement:

A vision statement is an inspirational statement of an idealistic emotional future of a company or group. Vision describes the basic human emotion that a founder intends to be experienced by the people the organization interacts with, it grounds the group so it can actualize some existential impact on the world.

 4. art installation

5. found objects

6. readymade

7. Marcel Duchamp

8. nature art

9. conceptual art

10. Ana Mendieta

11. earth - body art

12. collage

13. ethnosphere

13. Learning Theories

 

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A Note to Remember

 

Notice that this assessment is based on an honor system. My objective is that you explain these concepts in your own words.

 

 

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 Case Study 

 

 

The Value of Arts Education

 

 

 

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Discussion Questions

 

 Quiz 1

Installation Art, Nature Art, Naive Art (Drawing) and Collage

1. How can an installation art piece  be used to teach an academic subject?

2. Why is nature's art a valid way of bringing attention to ecology?

3. Drawing enhances learning of language arts. Explain

4. A collage develops several skills while allowing children to be creative. Explain.

5. Why is dopamine important for creativity?

6. What is the difference between convergent and divergent thinking?

7. Why was Ana Mendieta's earth-body approach a unique example of creative art?

8. Why is conceptual art important in the teaching of academic subjects?

9. In the article Drawing on an Outdated Theory by Jess Dorn, one finds the following quote:

It is sometimes said that our brain consists of a left hemisphere that excels in intellectual, rational, verbal, and analytical thinking and a right hemisphere that excels in sensory discrimination and in emotional, nonverbal, and intuitive thinking. However, in the normal brain, with extensive commissural interconnections, the interaction of the two hemispheres is such that we cannot dissociate clearly their specialized functions.

Why is the left brain/right brain theory counterproductive when teaching students how to draw?

10. Why should kids draw?

11. Which learning theory do you identify the most with and why?

12. As seen in the video above, the case study today is about "The  Value of Arts Education.

Based on your own experience as a student, explain those points you agree and disagree with in the video.

 

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