Submitted by: Vicki Kolar
School: Holman Middle School
Summary
The Art Exchange Enrichment project is a semester to year-long lesson designed to empower Art students to exchange various forms of visual communication with an emphasis on innovation and creativity. Students are not given a list of directions or exchange partner choices but instead collaborate on what an exchange is and how it affects/effects how a (student) artists thinks/works/feels. Students choose to work as groups and/or individuals and problem solve to decide who to have an exchange with; locally, nationally, or internationally. With the teacher as facilitator, students are responsible for researching how to contact their chosen Art exchange partner, what type of art will be exchanged, how often, how it will travel, and reflect on the purpose and/or why to have the exchange at all. The Art exchange could include finished works needing to be critiqued or ongoing works where both partners add to on a recurring basis. With personal reflection in mind, students are also challenged to create the overall project rubric which will be based more on process not product and/or artifact.
TIPC Ratings
Teacher: Approaching – designed Art exchange challenge to promote synthesis of a wide variety of resources to address an authentic task
Student: Approaching – constructed questions to guide exchange partner research, selected appropriate digital tools and information sources to make initial exchange happen and maintaining contact with various partners.
Teacher: Target – Art Exchange challenge promoted collaboration within and beyond the classroom, students engaged in meaningful communication and purposeful collaboration with each other as well as exchange partners
Student: Target – Groups established norms, organized roles, selected appropriate digital tools to communicate and collaborate with peers and experts (RPS Art teacher/students, VCU Professor/College Art Ed students/Teachers travelling and working in Costa Rica) regardless of physical distances, reflected on how Art Exchange went so far and set goals for future growth as student artists.
Teacher: Target- Designs questioning strategies to promote student generated solutions, promotes meaningful questioning among student groups; planning and implementing the art exchange required high levels of critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Student: Target- Uses critical thinking and problem solving strategies to figure out every detail of Art Exchange challenge, Who,What, When, Where, Why and How! Reflects on how the Art Exchange unfolded and how they would like to see it continue?
Teacher: Target- Designed Art Exchange challenge for students to apply critical thinking skills from start to finish; develops and facilitates an open studio environment for students to feel empowered creatively
Student: Target- Synthesized existing knowledge (what do I already know about my own art, how do i define exchange, how can I expand on this, make it work?). Students individually and as a group reflect on their creative process.
Student Artifact
Download Files
- Lesson Plan
- Art Exchange Goal Setting Student Sheet
- Art Exchange examples
- student created rubric
- 2 pictures of student reflections
