Classrooms to Teach Thinking and Emotional Intelligence
by Marvin Bartel
Art Lesson Plans
Lessons to Teach Thinking and Feeling
How to Plan Art Lessons that teach Thinking, Feeling, Creativity, including Practice, Art History, Aesthetics, and Art Criticism
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The Secrets of Generating Art Ideas
An Inside Out Art Curriculum – Idea Generation methods are essential to the work of any artist. These can be taught, but they are too often ignored in favor of teaching techniques.
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Sources for Ideas in Art
Generate Your Own Ideas for Art Lessons
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24 Ways To Begin Art Lessons Without Showing Examples
How is an inspirational creative studio art classroom culture nurtured?
Clay Lesson Essays
Drawing Lesson Essays
How to Plan Art Lessons
Instructions on what comes first, last, and in the middle. It has suggestions on motivation, keeping on task, and what not to do. Learn how to start lessons without showing a creativity killer example, at the beginning of the lesson. This is an extensive lesson plan. Most teachers carry it over several class sessions like a unit of study.
Teaching Creative Thinking, Inquiry Learning
Teaching with Questions points out the difference between teaching to think and teaching to follow directions. It is the difference between education and training. It is the difference between slave training and leadership training.
Teaching For Transfer of Learning
Ways To Begin Art Lessons
Teaching and Learning Art History
Preparation to Visit an Art Museum
Team Rubric
Teaching With Artwork From the Internet
Art History WebQuest
Observing an Art Teacher
Good and Bad Art Teaching Practices – student’s paper
Art Rituals in the Classroom
Rituals to Start an Art Class
“Bird” Ritual – mulisensory warm-up
Conversation Game – to get ideas for artwork and learn to make friends
Sources of Authentic Inspiration where artists get ideas
Planning Art Lessons & Units
Lesson Idea Development
The First Day of Art Class
Critique in the Art Class
→ Notes for Artwork Critique Form
→ Artwork Critique Form
Questions in Learning Art
One way to begin an art lesson is to observe and practice. Here children are having direct experience and observation of a baby pig. Here I am asking them questions about the details of the pig’s foot? They each made their own version of a clay pig using this experience and these observations. This image was copied with my digital camera from a slide taken during an art lesson about 30 years ago.
Links to some assignment pages from Marvin Bartel’s classes in teaching art methods.
• Planning the Parts of Creative Art Lessons
• Pass it On – practice teaching what we learned (teaching is great way to learn)
• One-on-one Teaching Assignment
CLASSROOM RESEARCH TOPICS IN ART EDUCATION
1. Compare methods to teach children how to learn to come up with their own ideas for art.
2. Compare ways to help children learn to design experiments in art.
3. Compare ways to teach observation drawing and observation clay modeling.
4. Compare methods of motivation for media work.
5. Comparing ways to increase the imaginative power of children.
6. Comparing ways develop children’s inventive powers through art.
7. Comparing ways that art teachers develop and assess new art assignments.
8. Compare types of teacher responses to art student requests for help.
9. Compare ways of developing collaborative creativity in the classroom.
10. Compare ways of developing empathy in the studio art classroom.
11. Compare ways to inspire students to learn without a teacher.
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