Artist's Statement Lesson Plan
This artifact comes from my field experience in Literacy in the Content Area (EDU 305). While placed in the classroom of Linda McMillin, art teacher at Parma High School, I taught three lessons. One of those lessons was this one, on writing an artist's statement. An artist's statement is a written explanation and reflection upon a piece of artwork or a greater series, written by the artist who created it.
This lesson demonstrates Designing Coherent Instruction (1e), part of Danielson Domain #1: Planning and Preparation. This lesson is unique because it employs writing to teach art. Many people do not equate writing with art. In fact, my students (at the time) had never before had to write in an art class. However, writing about art provides a wonderful opportunity to improve literacy while encouraging creative thought and refection. Furthermore this lesson brings the Common Core State Standards, with their goals of critical thinking and improved writing skills, into the art curriculum.
Though my students were resistant at first about writing, the work they produced provided thoughtful insight into why they created their art, what they enjoyed about their art, and what they would like to change about their art. By employing writing as an instructional strategy in art, I helped my students nurture creative thinking and constructive self-criticism that will benefit their future creations.
This lesson, focused on writing as a literacy-building method in art education, prompted the research and investigation that became my Master's thesis. To read more about my thesis, click here.
This lesson demonstrates Designing Coherent Instruction (1e), part of Danielson Domain #1: Planning and Preparation. This lesson is unique because it employs writing to teach art. Many people do not equate writing with art. In fact, my students (at the time) had never before had to write in an art class. However, writing about art provides a wonderful opportunity to improve literacy while encouraging creative thought and refection. Furthermore this lesson brings the Common Core State Standards, with their goals of critical thinking and improved writing skills, into the art curriculum.
Though my students were resistant at first about writing, the work they produced provided thoughtful insight into why they created their art, what they enjoyed about their art, and what they would like to change about their art. By employing writing as an instructional strategy in art, I helped my students nurture creative thinking and constructive self-criticism that will benefit their future creations.
This lesson, focused on writing as a literacy-building method in art education, prompted the research and investigation that became my Master's thesis. To read more about my thesis, click here.