Visual
Arts
Course Outline
“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should
treat it with the same status.”
– Ken Robinson
Teacher’s role in this
course:
According
to the Education Act, here
are the duties of a teacher in a classroom:
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diligently
and faithfully teach
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·
maintain
general discipline in the classroom and on school premises
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·
plan and
organize the learning
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·
keep a
record of attendance
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·
report
regularly
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·
exclude any
pupil from the class for overt opposition
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This course
is about creativity and learning to
be more creative and how other people and cultures have been creative.
My hope is
to provide you with an environment that allows you to learn about
creativity. Learning about creativity is
not easy. The best way to learn about
creativity to create problems that a
student must overcome. However, the most
meaningful problems are the ones we choose
to solve. Therefore, you are going to
choose your own problems to solve and then create artifacts to demonstrate that you have solved them.
There are
some requirements to curriculum that
I must make sure are covered. These are
the three areas of Arts Education – (1) Critical
Responsive (2) Cultural Historic
(3) Critical Responsive. There you will have to create a project for
each of these areas.
Student’s role in this
course:
According
to the Education Act, here
are the duties of a student:
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co-operate
fully with all staff
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·
attend
school regularly and punctually
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·
purchase
any supplies
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·
observe
standards for cleanliness, tidiness, obedience, & courtesy
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be diligent
in his or her studies
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·
conform to
the rules of the school
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·
submit to
any discipline that would be exercised by a teacher acting as a kind, firm
and judicious parent
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In other
words, you are to show up, learn, and work. Education is your gift
to yourself. Learning makes you more powerful. The resolve
to learn something is the best way we (as human beings) can better
ourselves. Therefore, to become a better person … educate yourself.
Every day,
I come to this class and I am going to ask “What are we learning today?” I am going ask this because you must be diligent in your own learning. I can’t want to learn more than you…you have
to want to learn more than me.
Mechanics
In order
for this to work and for you to get a mark there are some routines and
procedures that will have to happen.
First, you are going to build your mark with five projects and each
project with have a marks sheet to keep in your folder. Any mark you get should be recorded onto the
marking sheet. You are responsible for
keeping your folder and getting me to enter marks into your folder. Within one week after your due date, I will
enter the marks for the project into Homelogic.
If you don’t have a mark entered onto your sheet, you will get a 0
entered into the computer.
Timeline:
A man was
once asked “How do you eat an elephant?”
His response was “One bite at a time”.
The block system is a compressed amount of time. I am going to provide a schedule of due dates
to help you stay on track and not get overwhelmed so you can take one bite at a
time.
1st
Project: Creative Productive
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Due Date: February 24, 2015
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2nd
Project: Cultural Historical
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Due
Date: March 3, 2015
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3rd
Project: Creative Productive
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Due Date: March 18, 2015
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4th
Project: Critical Response
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Due Date: March 24, 2015
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5th
Project: Creative Productive
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Due Date: April 20, 2015
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“If you are
not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson |
