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THE PRACTICE: PEDAGOGICAL CONTEXT -- Choice-based art education supports multiple modes of learning and teaching.
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Content Presented By:
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Teaching for Artistic Behavior Partnership
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What is it?
In a choice-based art classroom, students, teachers, and resources interact in multiple ways for teaching and learning. The various modes of instruction include:
Teacher Roles
Teaching comes in many forms: direct and indirect (through visuals and references), whole-group demonstrations and discussions, small groups of students who choose a particular exploration, and one-to-one teacher to student interaction. This is possible because student independence is encouraged. The teacher's roles include demonstrating, modeling, facilitating, coaching, providing content, and altering that content as a result of observations made in class.
Student Roles
Students provide much of the instruction. Student "experts" who work in one medium over time serve as coaches and peer tutors, enjoying further learning in the process. Student discoveries are shared with classmates and teachers. Students form cooperative groups in an organic manner. In this way, a great deal of information is transmitted student to student.
Art Resources
The resources of the world of art, past and present, are available to students who find connections to their work in reproductions, books, Web sites, and multi-media materials. An evolving, open-system curriculum fosters an organic learning process.
Questions to Think About:
- How can the whole-group demonstrations reflect local curriculum needs while offering choice to students?
- What are some of the ways that art history resources can be shared with children in a choice-based classroom?
- What sorts of community building activities can encourage peer teaching and learning?
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