Housen’s article is developed around these
three questions: “What is the nature of the aesthetic response?” “How can one
best study or measure this response?” ”Can studying the aesthetic response help
us teach or develop it more effectively?” According to Housen’s aesthetic stage,
my students are in the Stage II. In this stage, viewers can not only tell
stories, but also can build a framework for looking at works of art, using the
most logical and accessible tools: their own perceptions and their knowledge of
the natural world. They are beginning to be aware of artist intentionality, and
interested in how things are made. They focus more on details. At this time,
the selection of images in VTS and the way I lead them to read images are
crucial to develop their aesthetic response. I hope I could create a suitable
curriculum to help them at this point in this semester.
VTS Unit
· Big Idea: Memory
· The reason I chose the big idea
“memory” is that everyone has memory even little kids, the concept is easy to
understand, people has different memories and has multiple feelings of it, and
the various memories made everyone became unique. When they understand the
process of how to make contemporary artwork, they can easily create artworks to
express their own thoughts.
·
Key
Concepts (3-4)
·
1.
People have different memories, the unique memory makes who you are. It helps
us identify ourselves.
·
2. Memory is something happened important to you
that can hardly forget.
·
3.
There’re good memories and bad memories, some make you happy and some make you
pain.
·
4. There’re
individual memories and common memories.
·
Essential
Questions (3-4)
· 1.What is memory?
· 2. How different artists
express memory in art?
· 3. Why do artists use their own
ways to express memory?
· 4. What solutions and
perspectives can be used to express memory?
· 5. What things do you think is
the most important part in your memory?
· 6. What memory do you think
people have in common?
·
3
IMAGES to support the Big Idea
·
Anticipated STUDIO
ACTIVITIES that support the Big Idea by targeting Key Concepts & Essential
Questions
Create a journal
2D or 3D express a serious of memories you had.
I agree that your students are in the process of transitioning to stage II, but may not be solidly there yet. The true measure will be if they demonstrate stage II behaviors regularly and without peer assistance. That would certainly be something to watch for if you continue to work with these students in the year to come.
ReplyDeleteYou selected some very complex images for these young boys and they did remarkably well in their discussions of them. I would, however, encourage you to consider your learners a little more closely next time. Consider kinds of things that boys at their young age would find interesting. You might be surprised at how rich the discussion will become when you do.