How Art Can Help You Analyze(Click title for video link)
As future content teachers, this idea of using art to teach and to practice analyzing a variety of items stood out to me. While this video does not mention anything about reading and analyzing a certain text, it talks about the process of analyzing which can be easily applied to the classroom. The steps mentioned in the video were: study thoroughly, analyze the elements observed, articulate them succinctly, and formulate questions to address the seeming inconsistencies. I instantly thought of math word problems, when thinking about how I could apply this same process to something else. In a word problem, you must study the problem, see what numbers or components are given, see how they work together and their relationship to one another, then form a question as to what is missing or what you need to find.
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Caroline,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great resource to use in any content area class! You can definitely get really creative in each content area with this idea too. By having students pay close attention to detail in a painting it trains their minds to look for detail in other areas of their life and classes too. I equate this idea of something small making a big difference elsewhere by students reading anything, even non content books, allows them to have a better sense of literacy in the classroom no matter the content area.
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