Art Reflection

Literacy and student achievement are not isolated to a students’ homeroom or taught by a reading specialist, consider the Art room as a place for inclusion to literacy. In addition to making incredible art, students will have the opportunity to read and write about historical artworks, architecture, and art history. Literacy components such as phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocaburlary, comprehension, motivation, and assessment will be incorporated into the art unit, developing transferable skill sets that can be utilized in multiple disciplines and life outside of the school.

Silverstein and Layne (2010) define arts integration as “an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.” Arts integration combines curriculum and teaching among dance, music, theatre, and visual art while interconnecting the arts with non-arts subjects. Integration takes many forms as teachers from different subject areas collaborate for rich curricular connections.

The existing literature on visual art education proven that there is little evidence of how teaching practice happens in the classroom (Mitchell, 2016). Mitchell (2016) also argues that although there are several types of research that provide the important information on the foundation of art educations, there is barely any information that proves how learning effectively occurs in the art education. This approach might include building a positive relationship (Keeffe, Lovejoy, Spenser-Jones, & Prain, 2013), the usage of technology in the classroom (Patton & Buffington, 2016), applying student-centered learning (Andrews, 2010).

Although we focused on different information the second and third classes were pretty similar in feeling and reflection to me. My schedule was starting to feel normal and I was starting to deeper understand the art vocabulary. Reading the packets handed out in class and the assigned reading really helped develop a sense of understanding into the importance and meaning of art’s integration. What struck me the most interesting was the way in which art’s integration really influences the child. Not only is it implementing fun, art, and the creative process, but it really strengthens a child’s confidence and acceptance. Even myself in the class am starting to feel more comfortable talking in front of people, and now I know why. Art is letting students use the full extent of the creative process. They don’t have to be afraid of being wrong, and they find out that the other students are in the same shoes as themselves. Now

Art is special because it takes so many different shapes and forms that every single

On November 4, 2017, I went to the Fort Worth’s modern arts museum to do a research for my arts class. I haven’t gone to an arts museum since I was in 7th grade. I actually thought it was really boring but now that I went again it was actually really interesting. I went with my boyfriend and all of the art work actually got our eyes attention and makes us look deeper into the picture it made us think. My professor sent me to go look at three specific arts which are representational, representational abstract, and non-representational abstraction.

The day was December 30th it was a chilly day when a young artist named Betty Edwards walked into her first class on art.

For my art reflection, I visited the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 9, 2017. I wanted to learn more about the pieces that were related to religion. I knew I would be intrigued because when we think of the bible or hear storied about God, we often create pictures in our head. Attending the DIA would expand my views of how I perceive the things that I hear. I decided to do my paper on the Temptation of St. Anthony (17th century) and The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. While these works were beautiful, their story was even more amazing.

Student discusses specific areas for improvement identified by both the student and the instructors and sets achievable goals.

After carefully evaluating three possible solutions that were presented in the previous section on implementing arts integration into the classroom, this paper will recommend the solution to be, hiring an art teacher. As stated before, hiring additional teachers, for most student tends to be very helpful. It can relieve stress and any additional preparation that comes with integrating the arts. This recommendation could help teachers divide their work with the hired art teacher.

Both simple and complex reflections were used. A simple reflection used towards the beginning of the interview transpired into, “pretty active out doing a lot of things.” Alternatively, a complex reflection used when reflecting on Sarah’s feelings about what her friends think about her not socializing subsisted of, “it bothers you thinking about them, wondering about your intentions.” I used twice as many complex reflections as simple reflections. Unfortunately, I should have used many more complex reflections so there was two reflections for every question instead of the other way around. In order to reflect the amount of fun she had with friends, I could have said, “It sounds like you had a ton of fun just hanging out

As a former co-worker and adviser, I decided to observe Carmen Macias from East Los Angeles College (ELAC). I wanted to interview her because I knew first hand of her impressive work ethic. In addition, she serves at an institution that services students who come from my home high school of South Gate, CA. ELAC is located in Monterey Park and is one of the nine community colleges apart of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). The class profile consist of first year students who are a part of Adelante, a first year student program. Many of the students in the class are in a cohort and will be taking various classes together. The classroom itself is in a horseshoe style seating. When talking to Carmen about the purpose of this,

Before you even start painting you have to decide what type of material you will be painting on. In modern days you will most likely land on paper as the material you choose to paint on. After choosing to paint on paper you should decide on what type of paint to use. The artist’s painting, I am looking at choose to use watercolor paints on a watercolor paper. Apparently watercolor paper is made with linters or cotton rags unlike how printer paper is made. Cotton rags are supposedly stronger than wood fibers or linters, as a result the paper is relatively strong. An additional advantage to using cotton rages is it makes the paper flexible, therefor less likely to rip. If you use older pieces of cotton rages you would be recycling, which I consider is another advantage. I assume that the artist used watercolor paper that was made a similar way, but I don’t know for sure.

Dr. Stephen T. Russell is the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regends Professor in Child Development in the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Among Russell’s other credentials, he is an expert on LGBTQ youth with a concentration in their health and rights (personal communication, September 22, 2017). He presented at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education on his research pertaining to LGBTQ youth health and resilience on September 22, 2017. This talk was sponsored by Youth-Nex, which is a center at the Curry School of Education that works to promote effective youth development (“About Youth-Nex,” 2017), and the University of Virginia Department of Women, Gender, and

Three years ago, if you asked me if I were an artist, I would have probably laughed at the thought. I, Cecilia Gray, was not an artist. My drawing skills are severely deficient; I lack the tremendous courage to preform onstage, and dare I mention my absent abilities to act, carry a melody, or dance on beat. However, in recent years, I have begun to rethink my characterization, as three years of learning ceramic arts have indeed made me an artist; furthermore, it has also given me reason to believe that I have always been one, despite my ignorance.