I believe that in order to have a successful lesson, a teacher should have a well thought-out lesson plan. I also believe that these lesson plans should be made available for parents, students, and colleagues to read and respond to if necessary. Here is one of my favorite lesson plans.
Pointillism and Collage
Teacher Juliet Pruitt
Grade Level 6th (Art 1)
Time Allocated -- 4 class periods (4 Hours)
Objectives
The students will participate in a discussion of pointillism and divisionism. The students will create a landscape collage consisting of round hole-punched paper, creating the image without any white negative space between dots. The students will employ elements of pointillism that they will learn. The students will be able to define the vocabulary.
Motivation
The students will view images of George Seraut's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," "Bathers at Asineres," and "View of Fort Samson." These images will first be hanging up at the front of the room, and then passed around so that the students are able to see how the image looks up close verses far away. We will discuss the elements of pointillism and it's relationship to impressionism. We will discuss primary and secondary colors and their effects on each other.
Materials
art board to work outside with for initial drawing
hole-punch
assorted paper (craft paper, magazine, newspaper, etc.)
glue sticks
11X14 sheet of white paper
pencils
Vocab
collage
pointillism
divisionism
dots
color mixing
primary color
secondary color
light diffraction
Procedure
The teacher will -- Show the students examples of pointillism first from far away and then up close. Discuss with the students the elements of pointillism and how it relates to impressionism. Discuss how contrasting colors effect one another. Supply the students with the materials they will need and give them the freedom to choose from the paper selection. Lead the students outside to draw a landscape from real life to take inside and work from for the collage.
The students will -- Participate in motivational discussion. Go outside and pick a view to draw from and draw a landscape sketch. Take the sketch inside to begin their collage using hole-punched paper dots. Once the collages are complete, they will be peer critiqued.
Assessment--Once the collage is complete and dry, the students will display their image on the wall and critique each other's work. I expect the students to all participate and to incorporate the vocabulary and the ideas learned in the lesson into their critique. Images will be graded on the use of contrasting colors and the density of the dots. I do not expect to see any negative space between the dots.
I plan to make my lesson plans available in hard-copy form in my classroom as well as in posts on this blog. My blog will be updated regularly, allowing the parents of my students to have a sense of what their children are doing in my class. Here they will receive lesson plans, photos of students' completed work, photos of students in the process of completing assignments, etc. The blog is also a place for students to go and remind themselves of what great work they are doing and what they will be working on next.
For individual assessment I will, of course, be available for parent/teacher meetings, email, and phone calls. I want to foster a relationship with the parents of my students early on in the year. I believe that communication with parents is key to understanding a child and helping that child succeed.
Students will be expected to use the internet as a reference and, in some cases, inspiration throughout the year. I will also have certain assignments that will give students the option to incorporate various forms of technology. They will, for instance, be given the opportunity to make a short film. Digital print-making is another option in which students will be able to learn and operate Photoshop.
As I hope you all will learn first-hand, my classroom is open to myriad possibilities that I anticipate students will really embrace.
I plan to make my lesson plans available in hard-copy form in my classroom as well as in posts on this blog. My blog will be updated regularly, allowing the parents of my students to have a sense of what their children are doing in my class. Here they will receive lesson plans, photos of students' completed work, photos of students in the process of completing assignments, etc. The blog is also a place for students to go and remind themselves of what great work they are doing and what they will be working on next.
For individual assessment I will, of course, be available for parent/teacher meetings, email, and phone calls. I want to foster a relationship with the parents of my students early on in the year. I believe that communication with parents is key to understanding a child and helping that child succeed.
Students will be expected to use the internet as a reference and, in some cases, inspiration throughout the year. I will also have certain assignments that will give students the option to incorporate various forms of technology. They will, for instance, be given the opportunity to make a short film. Digital print-making is another option in which students will be able to learn and operate Photoshop.
As I hope you all will learn first-hand, my classroom is open to myriad possibilities that I anticipate students will really embrace.
I'm impressed that you've already created a lesson plan.
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