EDUCATION IN THE ARTS / 2018

Sarah Monsey   TAL 324   Oct 31, 2018   Lesson Plan   Objective: Introduce students to the concept of art therapy and its connection to treating cancer.    Student age: High school or college   Materials: Paper and a screen to play videos.   Plan:    Have students take out a piece of paper. Play short emotional video and have students draw a picture related to how the video made them feel.    Ask a few students to talk about what they drew.    Introduce the concept of art therapy and how it relates to cancer.     Ask students if they believe there is a connection between their mental health and physical health.    Ask students if they know how cancer is treated. Give a brief description to students about how complicated cancer is and why it is difficult to treat.    Say how art therapy has been integr...

ART through MEDITATION Experiential Abstract paintings created through a meditative process.   LESSON PLAN Karla Flores Teaching a lesson plan TAL 324 Jorge Morejon 10/29/18 Art Through Meditation Objective: To teach students a method on how to reduce stress and become more relaxed and the to channel this sense of relief into art. Time: 15 minutes Age group: College students ( but could be used in any age group) Activities: Begin by explaining to the students the benefits of meditating. Next, have them try meditating themselves for about 5 minutes. Have everybody put all of there phones away and having them clear their desks except for one sheet of paper. Tell students to sit up in there chairs or allow them to lie on the floor if they wish to. Turn all of the lights off in the classroom. Tell the students to close their eyes and to make no effort to control their breath. They should just breathe normally. Tell the...

BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT The Students were introduced to the concept of Behavior Management as a last topic of discussion before they get ready to create their mini-lessons beginning next week. Behavior Management tips were shared through two links. 19 Big and Small Classroom Management Strategies Video: We watch this video in order to illustrate how a teacher may manage his/her classroom the first day of class. Mr. Taylor's style is not the only possible way to manage the classroom, but his organizational skills can be a good start for someone who has never taught in a classroom before.   INTEGRATED LESSON PLAN TEMPLATES We continued by sharing a link on different templates on how to integrate the arts into the general curriculum so that students have a reference to start writing the lesson the will be teaching beginning next week. LINKS: Grades K- 3 Lesson Plans Arts Integrated Lesson Plans RUBRIC FOR MIMI-LESSONS   We agr...

Link:  Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Today, we had a special visitor, Hope Torrents, the School Programs Director of the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami. Ms. Torrents spent some time learning the names of the students in the class. Then, she projected an image on the screen and asked: What is going on here? The students began to comment on the piece. After each comment she pointed at the parts of the painted the students referred to. Then, she paraphrased what the students had said. The next question aimed at expanding on the conversation: What do you see that makes you think that? The question further invited the students to add information based on their own perception. They used conditional language in order to leave room for other opinions. Example: Brice might be a hurricane fan. (the word might makes the sentence conditional) Then, Kelly and Brice volunteered to facilitate the process again as they aded the same set of questions H...

Students had the opportunity to get into groups and discuss two lesson plan templates. One template was used as a reference in regards to the structure of the lesson plan, while the other was looked at as a way to understand certain concepts related to comedy. LINKS   https://www.faae.org/assets/OnlineRes/FloridCirric/eum_ta_35-41.pdf http://www.kamplays.com/uploads/1/1/0/4/11040740/comedy_2.pdf                                                                               Lessons __________________________________________________________________________ GROUP 1 ...

Students were introduced to the different educational theories that have been historically applied in many educational systems. Then, they were asked to choose the theory they thought they had applied to their previous task when they worked on their fairy tales. T H E O R I E S       Behaviorism       Behaviorist   thinkers including  Thorndike, Pavlov and Skinner  have hypothesized that learning        is a change in observable behavior caused by external stimuli in the environment. The key        principle of Behaviorism is the reward or punishment of a new behavior, commonly described       as the 'carrot and stick' approach to learning.        Cognitivism        Cognitivism replaced  Behaviorism  as the dominant learning paradigm in the 1960s and         ...

Students chose a fairy tale and structured the story line, condensed it, assigned characters to the members of the group, created tableaux scenes and took snap shots of the scenes created. From a directorial point of view, the purpose was to organize the story through a number of frames (snap shots) that when put together, in order, will make the story more understandable and easy to tell. SHREK Shrek , a green  ogre  who loves the solitude of his swamp, finds his life interrupted when countless fairytale creatures are exiled there by the fairytale-hating and vertically-challenged  Lord Farquaad  of Duloc. An angered Shrek decides to ask Farquaad to exile them elsewhere. He brings along a talking  Donkey , who is the only fairytale creature willing to guide him to Duloc. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST One winter's night, an enchantress disguised as a beggar offers a cold-hearted prince a rose in exchange for shelter. When he refuses, she transform...