  Summer PD Opportunities: Art and Photo Workshops for Teachers
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I was blessed this year (again) with many talented art students. Here is a little snap shot of the student art from 2023-2024 school year. Thank you to my wonderful art students for being active, engaged students and making beautiful works of art. It was a pleasure to have you as students! 
Explore your inner artist and develop a variety of skills. Activities and projects will change from day to day, and they will include drawing, painting, printmaking, and the use of different media.    Photo credit: Metrfit As part of our school's evaluation process we are asked to create a yearly Student Learning Goal. My goal this year is Growth Mindset. I set the goal that by April 2023, at least 75% of my students in will demonstrate a growth mindset in in one of the following components of their art-making.:
In demonstrating a growth mindset, they will:
To measure their growth mindset, students were be assessed by using the following resources: Growth Mindset Questionnaire Growth Mindset Survey We discussed what growth mindset looks like in the art room: For example: Growth Mindset believes Believes talent can improve vs. Fixed Mindset believes that Believes talent is fixed  Students created SMART Goals and utilized the following questions to engage in a thoughtful conversation about growth mindset. The template is from the Art of Education.  Students took a survey on Growth Mindset as well. Here is a comparison of this student's work from the beginning of the year to the spring time. You can see the growth and level of improvement in his work.    Here is a another student who demonstrated growth in observation skills, aesthetics and composition   Here is another student who demonstrates growth and development in her work. Her goals include observational drawing, composition and expression.   
After David Sakura spoke to all of the sophomores the Students for Asian Cultural Awareness met for a day of "Activism". The Day included the following activities for students:
Here are Links to the Resources: AAPI Activism Day Bingo Card AAPI Activism Day Activity Sheets Letter for AAPI Curriculum    The students have been quite busy creating a wide variety of artwork. Here are some drawings, paintings and digital pieces.         Students in the Computer Graphics course use the fall class time to learn and discover how to create original and thoughtful works of art using Adobe Photoshop. It is great to see how quickly the students become adept at the program! Here is some of the great art that they have created so far:      The Art and Italian Classes had a delightful trip to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum! For many of the students it was the first time visiting the museum. Check out the photos of our trip and the art that we saw.          
 Students had an art lesson on perspective drawing from Boston Artist Arnie Casavant. Check out the great work that the students created:  Watercolor painting by Afsa, Grade 9  Drawing by Julia, Grade 12  Watercolor painting by Dino, Grade 9  Watercolor painting by Marissa, Grade 11
 The Studio Art and Drawing and Painting classes will be going on a field trip to Rockport, MA. Watch this video to learn more about Motif#1 Here is the information about the trip: The objective of the field trip is to learn how to draw the landscape for observation. Please watch the following video about composition. Here is a video of an artist painting Motif #1 for you to checkout |
AuthorChristina Chang teaches art and design to students in grades 9-12. 
Burlington Public Schools
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