Hello dear educators. My name is Carolina Elizabeth. I started teaching visual arts and Spanish 8 years ago and to my surprise (a bit before Pinterest and Instagram) there were few good books on multicultural arts that really focused on cross-curriculum; most just showed a craft project that seemed to be from that culture or time period.
So, I made up my own lessons by asking some of the core/general ed/or "regular" teachers around me what they were working on in their classrooms and then researched that time period or subject to see how I could connect to an art work. Then I would try out different crafts to work out the kinks before I presented it to the students.
This didn't seem like a great big deal, until the University observer (who was in charged of teaching teachers) asked where I got my ideas. So, I let her in on my process and then she asked me if she could share my lesson plans with her students. Still, not thinking it was a big and just happy that I got a positive review from her, I agreed.
Over the years, my collection of ideas have been collected and this year I finally started to take picture of the process and not just the students' product.
My intent or philosophy on the requirements from a lesson plan is that it must teach something besides making the actual item- connecting with other subjects and/or new vocabulary. It must require technique and it must allow students to make some choices of their own in the process.
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