Danielle Sacheli
About Me
I grew up in a suburb of Rochester, NY and knew that I always wanted to be a teacher. After graduating high school I attended Monroe Community College and Nazareth College. I received my Bachelor's in Art Education and hold a Visual Arts K-12 Certification. After graduating college I immediately began working at Rochester Prep Middle School located in the inner city of Rochester, NY. I currently work there and have been there since 2012. As Rochester Prep's Art Teacher, I have created an Art curriculum for grades 5th through 8th that has provided my students with the knowledge of Art history and Art techniques to produce challenging and successful Art projects. Along with a strong Art curriculum, I have also been given the tools to successfully manage and foster a creative and rigorous classroom environment.
My Topic: Art Critiques
My topic is creating an authentic Art critique lesson for students. Through teacher guidance, students will be able to critique a piece of artwork using elements and principles to define what they see and form an opinion based on the artwork. This lesson will also contain a small bit of artist and artwork information for students to refer to.
Needs Assessment
Learners will be taking a quiz on Survey Monkey answering questions on lesson planning and basic knowledge of art. From this, I can assess how much prior knowledge the audience has on Art History. From the results, I found that teachers across all content areas are somewhat familiar with Art History. All teachers who participated are able to name three different Artists and three different Artworks. When asked to choose the Art period that is not real, most teachers were able to choose, however, some chose real Art movements. From this point, I can find out exactly what Artists they know and what artworks they can name in order for them to start a lesson.
The second survey is a follow up survey addressing specifically what Artists and artworks that learners are familiar with as well as any other Art movements or historical events that correlate with Art history. After looking at the results from the second survey, most of my learners are familiar with artist such as Vincent Vangogh, Georgia O'keeffe, and Leonardo Da Vinci. They are most familiar with artworks such as Starry Night and the Mona Lisa. As far as art movements go- most learners know of expressionism and are familiar with elements of line, shape and color and principles of movement, balance and contrast. From this information, learners can create a lesson plan based on these choices.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/37M2ZNP
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JXQ9GYV
Analysis of the Learner
The learners of this course will be teachers of all content areas including math, science, history, ELA as well as others that teach physical education, music, technology, etc. Art teachers can be included as learners of this course due to their prior knowledge of the content and instruction in the content area. Although this may not be new information, it may be information they can use in their own curriculum.
Performance Objectives
By the end of this course learners will be able to:
1. Create an authentic Art critique lesson
2. Focus on an artwork that students will critique
3. Refer to elements and principles of art to critique the artwork
4. Provide small background information of Artist and artwork
Course Units
Unit 2 What are the components of an Art Critique lesson?
Unit 3 Creating your Art Critique lesson