My daughter, Zoe, is taking an online middle school art course. She loves it! She's learning about the elements and principals of design by looking at the work and style of various artists. Her latest assignment was to write about her art. She was asked, "Where do you get your ideas for your art work?" Then she asked me, "Mom, do they mean the assigned art or what I do on my own?"
This got me wondering, "Why doesn't the assigned art match what the students do on their own?"
Obviously, we want them to grow and stretch in their ideas, but are the assignments really meaningful if the students don't see it as something they do outside of class? Do you have assignments that really tap in to what the students are doing (art-wise) outside of class?
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I think that this is a problem with the nature of assignments for school. We do assignments to meet someone else's requirements. Then we really learn.
In high school, my art classes tried to remedy this assignment issue. All of the projects came from the students. The teacher acted more as a facilitator and I loved her. She shared so much. However, I would have liked practice with certain techniques or a little bit of art history.
There are advantages with both approaches.
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