Rebecca Recco — EDLD 5388 How will incorporate the 5 key principle of effective PD into your plan: The duration of professional learning must be significant and ongoing to allow time for teachers to learn a new strategy and grapple with the implementation problem. Ongoing support. The duration of the PD will be […]
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Student-Powered Learning : An Alternative PL Session
“I don’t even get why the kids have devices.” “Yeah, maybe they’re useful for some things, but we made it all the way through school without having them, so I’m sure these kids will be perfectly capable of doing work without them.” “If I had a dollar for every time a kid was supposed to […]
My Online Art Program
In a typical high school art classroom, students create individual works of art that are as unique as the students, themselves. Students develop their own artistic styles as they learn each media and find inspiration in the artists they study. Students work at their own pace, completing their works of art as they meet with […]
Sea Change
This week, I started teaching in my new school. For those of you just joining this blog, in May, I accepted a position as Founding Art Teacher at Cindy Avitia High School in San José, California. It has been an exciting change, but also a nervewracking one, as I move back to teaching High School after […]
Building My Online Course
As I am building this course, I have been attending some really intensive training for my new school. It’s so cool that so many of the things I am learning in this course are really in line with the requirements for my new school. Though I am really struggling with all the new information at […]
My Online Course
It’s been a busy summer! Last week, my husband and I packed up a U-Haul and moved from West Virginia to California — literally one week ago. We’ve been unpacking our house one box at a time while attending a super-intense professional development for our new school district. At the same time, I am attending […]
Updated 3-Column Table
Featured Art: Detail of Womb mural by Maya Hayuk Because I am moving to a new school and a new grade level, I’ve had to change my online course concept and my 3-column table. I’m still going with the art makerspaces, but changing my concept to work with a high school program with classes meeting […]
Art Makerspaces: An Action Research Proposal
Introduction As schools become more driven by high-stakes testing, opportunities for students to learn through creative experimentation begin to disappear to make room for more skills drilling and test preparation. Related arts class time is slashed or programs are sacrificed, completely; scheduling time for electives gets bumped to make room for study skills classes and […]
Makerspaces In The Art Room? Yes, please!
Makerspaces are quickly becoming regular features in classrooms and libraries across the United States. Their popularity is due to increased attention to project-based learning and personalized learning models, and the successes of such programs have proven time and time again that students gain deeper understanding of concepts when given some time and freedom to discover […]
The Art Makerspace — An Action Research Plan
Artists have always pushed the envelope with technology. Cave artists experimented with natural pigments to create beautifully colored paintings on rocks. Leonardo diVinci used art to record his ideas for inventions that were beyond what could actually have been built at the time he invented them. Artists like Tim Hawkinson,Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Jenny Holzer use […]