TAB: Teaching for Artistic Behavior
-This way of teaching guides/supports students and allows them to be more creative.
-Students get excited about an idea or project first, and then the teacher can teach skills.
-The teacher teaches skills, and the students choose the materials and ideas.
-The teacher and students work together, artist to artist.
-Parents must be educated about the process when teaching with TAB.
-Students may be sitting, standing, or using tables or easels.
-Every student does a different project.
-The work is developmental.
-The room must be divided up into centers/studios/sections.
-You must have containers for storing art.
-Students will earn thinking and creativity skills.
-The teacher is also a learner.
-TAB must include routines, authentic choice, reflection, and assessment.
-Create routines that students know.
-Listen like "The Thinker."
-Color-code the studio.
-Students must remain in their area.
-Utilize assessment booklets.
-Be consistent.
-Keep it simple.
-Consider a clean up song.
-Students should be in a specific position after clean up.
-Each area/studio must have its own routine.
-Start with a few materials out and add as you go.
-Label things so students can easily replace all materials during clean up.
-Idea: Consider having a Whisper Studio or Area
-Students work independently like an artist.
-One center/studio/area should be for research.
-Scaffold kindergarten art class to prepare them for choice.
-You must practice skills for at least 2 months before starting choice.
-Students choose their own big ideas.
-Studio Habits
-Develop craft
-Engage & Persist.
-Envision.
-Express.
-Observe.
-Reflect.
-Stretch & Explore.
-Understand the Art World.
-Assessment
-Reflect.
-Celebrate.
-Utilize artifact booklets.
-Idea: Consider blogging lessons so students can go back to them.
-Idea: Add in mini lessons throughout the year that take 5 or 10 minutes.
-Idea: Create a whole-school project.
-Artifact Booklets
-1st Day: Drawing Assessment, Cutting Assessment, Personal Logo
-2nd Step each Year: Practice the Skills of Each Studio/Center
-Plan a page for Projects, then a checklist and self-assessment.
-Clean Up Idea: Utilize the teacher's name. Since my last name is Gordon, I might want my students to leave their area "Gordon Good" or "Gordon Great."
-Words of Wisdom
-"Art Talk or No Talk:
-"Do the Right Thing when No One is Looking"
-Expectations:
-Trust the students, but if students break the teacher's trust, they must have a consequence.
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