After a hugely successful trip to Spain with my art students over Spring Break it was day one of diving into my flipped Art History classroom. It was a great day of teaching! I presented the overview video of Modern Art movements, explaining that all other videos would be watched outside of the class time. During the video students wrote down five things they learned and one question they had about the content I presented in the video. I'm hoping to further turn the learning over to my students but as a starter I wanted to get into things more traditionally. Everyone dove into writing down things they found interesting and questions they had about what they were learning about modern art. Then we shared by table followed out by shared some questions they had as a whole class. It was a great start to getting them used to talking to each other and leading things rather than just listening to me talk about art. The five/one format is one I'm planning on using regularly with preunit videos as well as some higher order thinking questions.
Then the students researched further Modern Art Movements they had drawn out of a bowl earlier in class while we were downloading some apps we'll be using later on to further understand all that the modern art world has to offer. In general I'm trying to utilize technology as much as possible while turning the learning over to the students. I'm hoping this exercise leads to further questions that we'll discuss tomorrow at the start of class as we share what we learned from our independent research.
Their homework was to think about five critical analysis questions as they watched a video introducing the art movement Fauvism, our first official unit of study. If all goes as planned we'll have a great in depth discussion tomorrow. If not I'll adjust how we do things a bit. Fingers crossed for another great day!
