Creative-Critical Reflection Part 1
I tried two different approaches to the assignment: one more personal, and one more academic/professional. Let me know which is better/more legible.
Metacognitive Strategies: Two strategies I came up with to help solve potential issues I identified with blended learning are Growth Maps and Self Evaluation sheets. Growth Maps will be for students to plot what they wish to accomplish that day/week/month, and chart how they will achieve those goals. If we want to get real artistic with it, we can make them LITERAL MAPS, and the students can customize them to their own taste. The Self Evaluation sheets are something I learned about in college, and they will be for the students to reflect on how well they accomplished those goals and what they did right/would like to change. The end goal of these tools is to get students operating on a metacognitive level: getting into the habit of managing their own learning and becoming self-directed learners; an essential skill for blended learning.
Hey Lazaro! I am definitely more interested in the first visual you made. The hand writing was a little bit difficult to read but I enjoyed feeling your personality through that visual. The second visual was just very sterile and a lot less interesting but very legible. Both were still strong. How would you facilitate a goal setting session if students don't automatically have any and don't know where to start?
ReplyDeleteYeah I also dig the first one a lot more. I totally agree, the second one looks so boring and meh. As to how I would facilitate goal setting, specifically in an art classroom I think it requires being in regular conversation with the student, getting to know what drives them, and helping them give those ideas form. Obviously being given this amount of freedom from day one can be very intimidating, so we can work up to that point. But even within the bounds of an assignment, I still think a student can and should bring those interests and goals into the work, and as a teacher we should still be there to help guide them in that. Does that make sense?
DeleteI think you have some very different maps, haha. I enjoy the personality of the first chart of course. It shows a more humorous, and honest side of you. The second is more legible however. I love the idea of map making. Perhaps students can make cartographies of themselves/ self-ethnography maps. A map of the self just sounds so beautiful. What age group are you thinking for either of these activities?
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the ideas! Personally I think these idea are broad enough that, with certain adjustments, they can be plugged in for most age groups. Like, a 5th and 10th grader are both capable of offering self reflection and analysis, but a 5th grader probably won't go as in-depth as a high school student. I do think the map idea could work best for a younger age group, while the evaluation sheets might be best for older students.
DeleteHey Lazaro,
ReplyDeleteI relate in a huge way to your identity web, specifically how you focused intently on how you find certain school environments to act more as a hindrance to your learning than motivative. I also often felt many assignments didn't feel worthwhile and therefore halfassed them. I see you have a clear understanding of what you do and don't like in a class, and think it will hugely impact the way you address issues of anxiety and disinterest in your own classroom. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on finding a unique approach to a class that focuses less on deadlines and more on personal development?
Hmmm, I don't know if I have any good ones. One idea could be just having deadlines set by the student: they come to you, discuss what they're going to do, how they plan on doing it, and set a deadline. So they're the ones managing how they work and how much time they need. (Obviously this would only work for self-directed projects.) I think another important thing to replacing a classroom culture of deadline with one of personal development is emphasizing effort as a key part of grading. As long as it's clear you pushed yourself, then that's what matters
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