Education in Arts / Fall 2021

  I CHECK IN WARM UP Mindfulness Creative Activity Students will use a gesture to call another student's name with the intention of remembering names of their classmates. ---------------- II  Review MDCPS / K-12 Competency Based Curriculum (Lesson Plan Outline), CPALMS, Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards   Bellow see the order of the items you need to include in your lesson plan.   MDCPS / K-12 Competency Based Curriculum [Correlated to the Sunshine State Standards & the Grade Level Expectations] 1. Volumen III 2. Subject: Visual Arts 3. Level: Elementary 4. Grade: K 5. Component:  I. Aesthetic and Criticcal Inquiry 6. Objective (s): 7. Competency 8. Materials 9. Activity 10. Assessment About the Sunshine State Standards: The Sunshine State Standards establish the core curricular content for eight subject areas: language arts, science, mathematics, social studies, visual and performing arts, physical education, heal...

  ------------------- 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. Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's muscle groups - isolation warm up.  In previous classes, we added conscious breathing at the end of the warm up,  self-affirmations,  meditation , mindfulness and relaxation techniques. How would you implement the warm up done in class so far in your future lessons?    6.  Name the various parts of a lesson plan. 7. What curriculum have we used in class as reference in the creation of our lesson plans? 8. Why is conceptual art important ...

  Part I   WARM UP Mindfulness Creative Activity  Students simulate the creation of a shaped object and pass it to the next student. Each student changes the object using hand gestures. Question 1 Write a reflection about the activity and explain how you thing it could help your students.    ---------------------- Part II    INTRO TO DRAWING      It is important that students have a theoretic foundation when creating their own teaching methodology. Below see the major theoretic paradigms used in education now-a days. Article: Drawing on an Outdated Theory?  by Jess Dorn 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 hemisp...

  I   CHECK IN     II      WARM UP     III    Video 1   Learning through the Arts   Question 1 In which way does this program connect the arts to the academic curriculum of the children? Give examples.     IV   Video 2   Multiple Intelligences   Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences Gardner's Multiple Intelligences     http://www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html   Question 2 Which is the main point Howard Gardner is trying to make?       V    Video 3 Peter Jordan on Multiple Intelligences Debunking the Theory of Multiple Intelligences Question 3 In which way Jordan Perterson's view of intelligence differs from Gardner's? Explain ------------------------------   VI   Competency Based Curriculum - Miami Dade County Public Schools http://www2.dadeschools.net/students/cbc/index.asp  Visual & Performing Arts Department, Division of Ac...

CHEK IN  (5 min.) WARM UP Body, Breathing & Mind (10 min.)   -------------------   Review   (9:20 min.)  Question 1 What new pieces of information about the three theories covered in this video (behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism) can you add to your previous understanding (from last class) of learning theories? ------------------- The Ethnosphere By Wade Davis The class will be introduced to National Geographic's Explorer Wade Davis who teaches about what he calls the ethnosphere, a word he uses to describe  the imaginative contributions of humanity to the planet. He makes emphasis on people's stories. They are global resources, just like air, water, and green life.  Just like the biosphere, the ethnosphere is also  threatened by rampant modernization and globalization.  (22:19 min) Question 2   According to Wade Davis what is the ethnosphere?   Question 3   According to Wade Davis, what has been lost in terms ...

 Part I   WARM UP   Activity Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's  muscle groups - isolation  warm up.  In previous classes, we added  conscious breathing  at the end of the warm up,   self-affirmations  and  meditation . Today, we are adding  mindfulness , a a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.   Question 1 How did you feel after the warm up today? Post your answer on Discussion Board. ---------------------- Part II    INTRO TO LEARNING THEORIES  Today we will introduce the different learning theories used in most educational systems around the world. Please, watch the video below and move the discussion forward by answering to  the following questions: A brief introduction to ...