Christina Reeves NAEA presentation Student directed learning Art studio

1. Christina Reeves
reeves.christina@gmail.com
ECE – 5th grade Art Educator
Denver Public Schools
How I TAB:
My Tips for Transitioning to a Choice-Based Arts Studio

2. What is Choice Based Art Studio?
A studio where artists make choices to
communicate their ideas, identity, and
interests!
The studio empowers young artists to find
their voice and confidence through
meaningful decision making while feeling
safe to take risks.
This happens by creating structures to
support student choice in materials, media,
and subject matter.

3. Use what works for your program!
Take What You Need, Make It Work For You…
Get your hands on the AMAZING resources out there!
teachingforartisticbehavior.org
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TAB-ChoiceArtEd/info

4. How will I
MAINTAIN ORDER
with 800 students
and a transient
population?

5. You CAN maintain order with
many students and lots of classes!
Keep it simple!
Keep it consistent!
Consistent structure empowers students
to make meaningful choices and
enables students feel safe to take risks!

6. Maintain Order:
Start with Simple Studios

7. Maintain Order:
Label and Provide Instruction in Each Studio
Expectations for Material Use
and Artist Behavior
Description of Available
Materials
Clearly Labeled Materials
(words and images)

8. Maintain Order:
Master One Studio At a Time
• “Grand Opening” tour
• Model expectations
• Opportunity for exploration

9. Maintain Order:
Expected, Purposeful Routines
Art Start
Whole Group
Discussion/
Goal
Artmaking
Portfolio/
Check In

10. Maintain Order:
Provide a Goal that Promotes Choice
StartofYear
Midyear

11. Maintain Order:
Store Art Work Efficiently
• Set size limits
• Assign a storage
place for every
student, every
class, every media
• Use codes for clay
• Keep your storage
consistent
2D Portfolio Boxes 3D Storage
Clay Storage2D Cabinet

12. Maintain Order:
Consistent and Explicit Clean Up Expectations
• Countdown
• Visual Timer
• Music
• Labels/signs

13. What if my students
don’t have ideas
because of their
limited world
exposure and rare
opportunities for
choice within
school?

14. Your students do have ideas -
you can help them communicate these!
Bring the world to them!
Provide inspiration!
Through meaningful experiences and exposure
students will develop and communicate rich ideas!

15. Inspire Creativity:
Provide Authentic, Meaningful Resources

16. Inspire Creativity:
Provide Exposure to the World through Images

17. Inspire Creativity:
Provide Exposure to the World through Realia

18. Inspire Artists:
Provide Exposure to Diverse, Rich Art

19. Inspire Artists:
Provide Supports to Develop Ideas
Ask
Guiding
Questions
Main
Idea
Detail
1
Detail
2
Detail
3
Setting

20. What if my students
don’t produce
“hallway material”
or display ready
work?

21. Students WILL create
beautiful, meaningful works of art
to fill your hallways and art shows!
Balance play and
complete, display ready
work!
Artists create different types of work at different times, but
all work is equally as necessary and important.

22. Creating Meaningful Art:
Experiment/Challenges
Challenge
completion
earns studio
privileges
Encourages
deeper
exploration

23. Creating Meaningful Art:
Work In Progress & Take Home
Works in Progress
Take Home
• Take home
gifts, cards
• Store works in
progress in
portfolio
• Conference
with student
who wants to
“start over” to
learn from
mistakes

24. Creating Meaningful Art:
WOW Pieces
Wonderful
Original
Works
of art

25. Christina Reeves
reeves.christina@gmail.com
http://www.slideshare.net/
christinareeves/tab-32943221