HOIC
HEART OF ILLINOIS CONFERENCE (lesson plan and how-to-video)
Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 3 - Planning for Differentiated Instruction – The competent teacher plans and designs instruction based on content area knowledge, diverse student characteristics, student performance data, curriculum goals, and the community context. The teacher plans for ongoing student growth and achievement.
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Heart of Illinois Conference is a one day in depth art making conference where high school students choose classes they want to participate in. Senses, Sounds, & Sculpture explored art making using the different senses. Sight, Touch, & Sound were used to create a 3D piece.
Rational: Students successfully connected memories to personal culture, traditions, and history to influence their interpretation of personal responses to art. They discussed the way they perceive art, linking it to at least one personal experience and sound. In class discussion, students explained how their memories or stories and personal response to touch, sight & sound are connected to a 3D sculpture that they created. Artists Nick Cave, Lucy Hardcastle, Sarah Sze, Monica Valentine were used to reference artists. Students used InShot to create a video of their artwork with sound. Students gained knowledge in presenting work in many facets and how perceptions of art change with different sound, music, and presentation.
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UNIT PLAN, LITERACY, & TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
309 UNIT PLAN (unit plan, artist handout, rubric, artwork, artist statement)
Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 5 - Instructional Delivery – The competent teacher differentiates instruction by using a variety of strategies that support critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and continuous growth and learning. This teacher understands that the classroom is a dynamic environment requiring ongoing modification of instruction to enhance learning for each student.
Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 7 - Assessment – The competent teacher understands and uses appropriate formative and summative assessments for determining student needs, monitoring student progress, measuring student growth, and evaluating student outcomes. The teacher makes decisions driven by data about curricular and instructional effectiveness and adjusts practices to meet the needs of each student.
Description: Connections to people, living things, experiences, and objects make us human. Students will be introduced to mixed-media art in this unit. They will explore connections and relationships through creating an art piece that represents personal connections to people, living things, experiences, or objects through the past, present, and future. The unit's artists Sarah Sze, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Tracey Emin, Marina Abramović, and Cannupa Hanska Luger are referenced to explore connecitons.
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Literacy Lesson
Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 6 - Reading, Writing, and Oral Communication – The competent teacher has foundational knowledge of reading, writing, and oral communication within the content area and recognizes and addresses student reading, writing, and oral communication needs to facilitate the acquisition of content knowledge.
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Description: A slide to teach literacy in the art classroom.
Rationale: I created a slide show to teach students to use adjectives in describing the unit artwork. Scaffolding the information into the lesson aids students in applying the knowledge to writing an artist statement.
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TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
7M: articulates a logical rationale for the role of the visual arts in the school curriculum, including philosophical and social foundations for visual arts education.
My teaching philosophy involves creating a warm and safe environment for students to learn and express themselves. Exciting students about art, artists, creativity, and community is a central focus in my teaching. Creating a curriculum surrounding contemporary art and artists will guide students to relate personal experiences in a modern context. Teaching the artistic toolbox of skills, tool use, technology, and critique is vital in giving students the confidence to create and critically think. The combination of student choice and process-based learning is what I encompass in the art room.
PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP
PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP: PAL 1
Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 9 - Professionalism, Leadership, and Advocacy – The competent teacher is an ethical and reflective practitioner who exhibits professionalism; provides leadership in the learning community; and advocates for students, parents or guardians, and the profession.
Description: Illinois High School Art Exhibition 2022, Central Region
Rationale: Visiting Transpace Gallery for the IHSAE central regional exhibition supports the artists in the show as well as the gallery space.
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Description: Drury Lane Theatre production of Evita
Rationale: Supporting the performing arts by going to a musical was a highlight of Spring break.
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PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP: PAL 2
Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 9 - Professionalism, Leadership, and Advocacy – The competent teacher is an ethical and reflective practitioner who exhibits professionalism; provides leadership in the learning community; and advocates for students, parents or guardians, and the profession.
7N: advances his or her knowledge of current developments in the field by participating in professional development activities (e.g., coursework, professional organizations, and workshops).
Description: Board Meetings for the Geneva Cultural Art Center
Rationale: Participating in board meetings for the art center supports the presence of an art center in the community.
Evidence: Board meeting dates 1-13-22, 4-13-22
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Description: Installation of artist Gillian Teichman's sculpture by painting glass roses and assisting with installation.
Rationale: Assisting with assemblage and installation of others' artwork supports the arts and artists.
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