Drawing & Lesson Plan 2

 

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. 

 

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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Article: Drawing on an Outdated Theory?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 hemispheres is such that we cannot dissociate clearly their specialized functions.

Questions

2. Why do so many children have problems with drawing?

3. What is Edward's theory? Explain

4. Why is the theory more of a useful analogy at this point? Explain





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 Part III
 
Drawing

ACTIVITY

Draw a self portrait.
Write a lesson plan.

POST YOUR LESSON PLAN ON DISCUSSION BOARD





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