This 6 session seminar is for artists interested in teaching art. Our goals are to help you improve your teaching, and to produce 6 free public art workshops. Sessions 4-6 will be devoted to developing workshops. Anyone interested in assisting at workshops, please contact teamjli@live.com ASAP.

1. Session 3:
• Evaluating
• Sequencing
• Enriching
• Workshop Planning

2. Goal of Seminars: to gain teaching tricks and confidence
• Teaching = creating relationships with individual students.
• Differentiation = tailoring instruction to meet individual needs.
• 4-Part Lesson = a useful approach, not a trap.
• Intro (what students need to know)
• “I Do” Demo (what you’re going to teach) <THE BREAK DOWN
• “We Do” Practice
• “You Do” Create
Review

3. Content Process
Product Environment
• Use vocabulary that
references all five senses.
• Review the lesson for some
students during practice (part
4).
• Use a game in place of the draw-
along for part 2.
• Provide different materials for
students at different learning levels.
• Provide a variety of increasingly
complex references.
• Offer (encourage) multiple
choices for practice (part 4).
• Have students move around, work
with partners or groups.
• Play background music to inspire and
manage energy.
DIFFERENTIATION TECHNIQUES

4. ASSESSMENT/FEEDBACK
Goals are: toughen, improve, expand thinking
• Good/Bad
• What’s Wrong
• Evaluate Product
• Personal Opinion
• Empty Praise
• Build False Sense of
Accomplishment
 What, exactly, is “good” and “bad”?
 Any progress?
 How can we make it better?
 Redirect efforts (more preliminary thumbnails?)
 Multiple sources of input (let’s see what classmates think . . . )
 How does it demonstrate
lesson goals?
 Build self reflective skills (ASK)
TIP: KEEPTHE STUDENTS’
FIRST EFFORTS !!!

5.  What is “good”? What is “bad”? Any progress?
 How can student make it better?
 Redirect the student’s efforts.

6. 1. Take a look through the artist’s eyes.
2. Don’t nit-pick the little stuff.
3. Start positive and end positive (3 Kisses & a Kick).
4. Never be vague.
5. Keep it short.
TIPS for assessment/feedback

7. Online Critique?

8. SEQUENCING – break down, on a bigger scale
Handouts serve as motivation, promotion, and satisfy a lot of
“what students need to know” quite efficiently.

9. Classes have a “project” – motivating, flexible, and not as important as practicing the processes Lead Artist is teaching.

10. Month by Month Sequence
Sequence circles back to same
project each month, creating
differentiated opportunities for both
occasional and continuing students.
Sequencing allows you to build up
and then combine the art skills you
are teaching.
Scaffolding
Laddering
Step-by-Step

11. JLI master-sequence?
The spiral curriculum – each term (typically 3 months)
– or other (year) -- circles back to begin at same place
again.
1. Human Form
2. Non-Human Forms
3. Composition
heads, bodies, hands, feet, face, muscles, expressions,
hair, clothing, action lines, proportions, etc.
animals, machines, aliens, robots, props, architecture,
landscape, perspective, textures, etc.
rule of thirds, rule of ninths, “S” or “Z,” circle-square-
cross-figure 8-spiral, fore-middle-background, etc.
1. Human Form

12. ENRICHMENT – this is the bling, everything that supports what you are teaching.
Inspiration
Schedule
Vocabulary
Information (about artist, material, technique, local art shows & opportunities)
Videos and other examples, history, influences
Responding to questions with mini-demos
Challenges (in class and out of class, i.e. competitions, exhibits, etc.)
Research (yours)
Enthusiasm (yours)
Research (theirs)
Enthusiasm (theirs)

13. 6 workshops
• 2-hours each,
• all ages,
• more than make-and-take
Developmental Outcomes
Achievement Outcomes Prevention Outcomes
Self confidence
Critical thinking
Ability to communicate
Etc.
Draw the human figure
Write in complete sentences
Hit a home run
Etc.
DON’T
Hate math
Drop out of school
Join a gang
Etc.

14. WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO
KNOWWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TEACH?
= THE ACTIVITIES YOU’RE GOING TO DO
= THE RULE ARTISTS CAN BREAK
IF THEY WANT
• Topics
• Papermache Masks
• Watercolor Portraits
• Straight on Portrait

15. • Approach?
• team teach? or individuals?
• sequence? or independent workshops?
• one-shot? or repeats?
• Dates/Times?

16. Homework:
SIGN UP (please) for Participation Opportunities
• June 25 Tony DeZuniga Art Exhibit deadline
• July 14 Draw Along at Barnes & Noble
• July 23 Art Battle at Barnes & Noble
Preparation for Workshops:
• Research
• Experiment
• Identify “what you are teaching”
• Work out the breakdown for demo
• Consider materials needs
• Make/bring in samples
• Do you see any potential problems?