TWO SATURDAY CLASS LESSON PLANS
IPTS Standard 2 - Content Area and Pedagogical Knowledge - The competent teacher has in-depth understanding of content area knowledge that includes central concepts, methods of inquiry, structures of the disciplines, and content area literacy. The teachers creates meaningful learning experiences for each student based upon interactions among content area and pedagogical knowledge, and evidence-based practice.

IPTS Standard 8- Collaborative Relationships - The competent teacher builds and maintains collaborative relationships to foster cognitive, linguistic, physical, and social and emotional development. This teacher works as a team with professional colleagues, students, parents or guardians, and community members.

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First Grade- Imagination and Space

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Description of each plan: Over the course of three hour and forty-five minutes long periods, students learn how to express and develop a story based on their imagination while incorporating space-related themes and ideas.  Each week the students got to learn about a new artist that inspired the topic of the day while also learning about a new medium or technique to help create their ideas. Students were able to work on new skills and ideas like creating characters, different space objects, and warm and cool colors. In the first week, students created aliens by creating a sketch of the aliens using handouts and later on creating the aliens out of clay. The second session was a painting day where students painted their aliens and learned about the Planet Mars and other planets, to help them develop ideas of for their planets. Students got to do acrylic paint pour for their planets where students learn about how warm and cool colors and see how the paint flow affects the design and color mixing.  In the final session, students got to learn about murals and collaborating by working together to create a large-scale universe mural for their planets and worked on creating and sharing their aliens' stories and their artist statements.

Rationale for each plan: By having the unit be about imagination and space with the projects exploring multiple different elements and mediums, students have the opportunity to learn and experiment with these new ideas and elements with guidance to help develop creatively, physically, and socially.  Each day students are about to gain inspiration from the feature artists while using the knowledge of space to push them to explore the possibility of their creations.  Every day students got to work on their fine motor skills and coordination, like using tools for clay, painting details on their aliens, and using sponges, stencils, toothbrushes and paintbrushes for the mural. Last students got to work on sharing their art with each other and developing stories for them.

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Evidence: Links to the Imagination Unit Plan, Imagination Powerpoint with Teachers' Examples

 example of students' work and in-class photos

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Fifth Grade-Community Mixed Media Project

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Description of each plan: For the two sessions with the Fifth graders, we focus on helping develop their collaboration and teamwork skills by having the students create a mixed-media community. Students were able to used recycles materials as well as a wide variety of materials to help create their community and gain inspiration from the feature artists of the lesson. On the first day, they created a map, a list of necessities for a community, assigned roles, and talked through the themes, looks, and city planning ideas.  On the last day, students finished creating the buildings and layout for the community, then while on display explained the layout and the specific buildings to guests and families.  

Rationale for each plan: For our fifth-grade students, we decide to focus on developing their social and planning skills with this project, and to help encourage them to learn more about their community.  By having the students work together and assign roles and responsibilities, they were about to effectively accomplish tasks in a timely manner and communicate with little to no conflict. The use of mixed media and having the students create the buildings out of ordinary and recycled materials challenged their idea of what can be considered a building and how to manipulate materials to get their desired outcome, which helps them develop better problem-solving skills.

Evidence: Community Lesson Plan, artist handouts- Francis Kere and I.M. Pei, presentation, and students' works, and teacher's examples 

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SATURDAY CLASS CLASSROOM SET-UP DOCUMENTATION

 

First Grade Set Up 

 

                               

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IPTS Standard 4 - Learning Environment - The competent teacher structures a safe and healthy learning environment that facilitates cultural and linguistic responsiveness, emotional well-being, self-efficacy, positive social interaction, mutual respect, active engagement, academic risk-taking, self-motivation, and personal goal setting. This includes a virtual environment and any learning aids used within a Google Drive.
7D: understands how to organize the instructional environment to maximize students’ learning.

Description: During the first-grade section of the Saturday Art classes, the class layout was rearranged to best fit the needs of the first graders and allows for an easy transition, set up, and clean up in the allotted time of the sessions. The room has three tables being used, one in the back for supplies and the other two centered in the middle to allow for a station set up between the two. The tables also allow the students to easily view the projector during the presentations and allow them to interact and communicate with one another. 

Rationale: With first graders, it's important to remember that they might go through activities quickly and might lose interest in an activity after about ten to fifteen minutes, so having multiple activities planned and easy transitions is important for successful classes. By planning ahead for to improve classroom management and to use the max amount of time used for creating and working on the project students were about to stay on task and be engaged through the whole session.  Having this setup helps highlight how important knowing your students and creating an environment that supports their needs provide the best opportunity for students to stay focused and allows teachers to focus on engaging and aiding students to the best of their abilities.

Evidence: Photo of the classroom layout for the first-grade class.

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