As I sit down to write this reflection, I find it hard to believe that we are nearly done with this semester. It has truly gone by quickly.
This week we presented lessons using art in math. Many of us used geometry as the basis for our art projects and all of them were very interesting. I am fascinated at the number of different ideas that can come from people on how to teach the same subject.Our textbook is certainly going to be a good resource for future use as it has really good ideas for using art in different subjects.
Eisner’s paper this week was certainly informative. As I have read each of his papers I have gained insight into how we can make schools better for our students. So many of the ideas that Eisner sets forth are ones that I can agree with and see as positive reforms to the present system of what I call the “cookie cutter” student. In this latest paper, the discussion was on the six distinctive forms of thinking, artistically rooted qualitative forms of intelligence that education can learn from art. The concepts were amazing and included such things as having students use how they feel about whether or not they have done a good job on whatever work they were doing, being willing to change the aim of a lesson in the middle of that lesson if it would be more productive to move in a different direction, the fact that everything we know cannot necessarily be articulated in words, and that the motivation for learning material should include a sense of satisfaction about learning that particular thing. I find all of this to be radical thinking and yet, I would really enjoy working within the parameters of these ideas.
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