Monday, June 18, 2007
Adolescent Literacy: Chapter 7
I found this chapter to be the most helpful that I have read so far for me as an art teacher. Vocabulary is the basis of what I teach and the terms/concepts can be really confusing for my students because they are so specific for this subject area. I was thinking today how hard it is for some of my students to grasp the art vocabulary and that the visual vocabulary cards will be extremely beneficial for them to use as a remembering tool (plus it connects to art). I was just drawing/expressing the terms visually but I think that it will help the students more if they do it instead. The examples in this chapter are great and they have given me several ideas on how I can use these with all levels of art students. During my student teaching semester, I discovered that reviewing vocabulary terms with my elementary students before and after our activities helped my students learn how to not only understand the vocabulary but to be able to use the terms properly.
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I completely agree with you about letting your students do the vocabulary. The Concept Circles (p. 103, AL) would be a fantastic tool for learning art vocab. You could even let them do different colors and shades or different abstract shapes rather than using the circles. They would probably even have a few suggestions. They could draw pictures in their concept circles, too.
I wonder if you as an art teacher could collaborate with another content area to create visual associations with new vocabulary.
I totally agree with you and wrote almost all the same stuff on my blog. Vocab is super important to art. I really thought this was the best chapter so far as well.
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