Praise students when natural collaboration happens in the classroom and have them share their experience with the class.ģ.Have a discussion about how artists can work individually or in groups.Expose students to a variety of materials to explore.Have artists come into your classroom to demonstrate their process and speak to your students.I like Mati and Dada for the elementary level. Find videos of artists sharing their art process.Allow your students to share their work with their peers to explain their processes and work.Share how artists can create work both individually and in groups and help your students experience both realities. Students can gain so much knowledge about being an artist from observing their peers as well as working artists. Sharing a variety of art processes for our students to learn about is vitally important to their artistic development. The artistic process is at the center of what we do as art teachers.
Give your students opportunities to understand the process of other artists. Encourage your students to study other artists’ work to learn more about them.Ģ.Challenge students to create their own style in a piece of work.Have students research an artist and create work inspired by their style.Remember to show a variety of artists over time including different genders, ethnicities, time periods, and styles. Give a presentation about a specific artist or art technique.Here are some ways for you to incorporate art history into your class. In addition, it will give them inspiration for their own work. If you don’t already incorporate art history in your class, consider starting! Your students will learn to view art and gain a deeper understanding of what they’re viewing. That’s because art history is connected to the Understanding Art World Habit. It’s possible you are using the Studio Habits in your classroom right now without knowing it. Allow students to view a variety of art to learn about art history. This will give your students context behind what they are learning.
#Studio habits of mind how to#
But it also encompasses learning how to act as an artist in relationship to different communities. Make sure to formally introduce the habit to your students as you focus in on it with various activities. The habit, Understand Art World, is characterized by learning about art history and current practices.
Let’s take a look at the Studio Habit: Understand Art World and see how you can share this habit with your students in the art room. In the article, “ Why Do We Need the Studio Habit Framework, anyway?,” Lois Hetland said, “Studio Habits bind together artistic practices-that is, the ways serious artists work-and arts education, so that what we teach and what students learn more closely resemble genuine artistic efforts.” The habits include Observe, Envision, Develop Craft, Reflect, Express, Understand Art World, Engage and Persist and, finally, Stretch and Explore.
Have you used the Studio Habits of Mind in your art room? If not, they are wonderful habits to share with your students, so they have a better understanding of how an artist behaves. The creators of the Studio Habits of Mind, Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Kimberly Sheridan, and Shirley Veenema, emphasized the importance of regarding students as artists capable of creating authentic work.
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