(This is a blog post from Schaudt.)
I post a lot on my Instagram (@schaudt.artonaut) about Practice Projects and wanted to post a blog to elaborate on the process. When I first transitioned to teaching art, I started by having students learn a few skills and then jump right into their projects. Unfortunately I was running into a lot of problems... I would often hear: "Like this?!" "Am I doing this right?!" "I'm DONE!" (when, clearly, they were not) "What do I do next?!" "I needed to paint the WHOLE thing?!" and the dreaded... "I messed up. Can I get a new paper?" Sigh. So, I went back to the Lesson Planning Book and started planning in Practice Projects to allow students to become introduced to a project, show how to embed our new skills, practice following the steps together (so they could do it independently later), and teaching that it is okay to make mistakes - and learn how to fix them! Since implementing Practice Projects, I have found that students are able to troubleshoot their own problems much more efficiently, spend more time on task and less time wandering the room, and feel more confident to produce quality work (or at least know WHY they didn't produce quality work). What Practice Projects Look Like in my Classroom Right now we are working our our Value unit as part of the Artonauts Elements of Art Curriculum. We reviewed Skills that we started to learn as a part of our Color Unit (monochromatic & achromatic values), along with the new skill of mixing Tones. For our project we are making Valued portraits, and as a practice we chose one of 4 pre-selected portraits to complete the Steps. Today we Critiqued our projects to target 4 key parts of our project objective and made plans to complete our own projects. The Practice Projects are a great opportunity to have students hit the Common Core Standards of Critiquing and Refining artwork. It gives them a chance to see how to complete the project independently and shows students it is okay to make mistakes, as well as how to correct or fix these mistakes if they arise.
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