1. Journal #4- Read Chapter 4 Motivating Learning for Friday September 28 Click on the comment section below to respond to one of the following questions from the text:
-How can using a personal experience motivate children to learn and give an example.
-Describe an activity that you could implement with your class using direct perception.
2. Create a group display of your "Dot Day" Explorations. Photograph your individual display and post it on your blog portfolio. Reflect on your experiences creating the displays, working on the projects and listening to the story "The Dot." List extension activities you could use in your classroom.
Checkout some of the photos from the group mural. Nice Work!
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Richard Schmit
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A key to motivation is relating content to the students lives. Recalling personal experiences is an instant motivation because it allows students to think about themselves. "Me" is easier to relate to than "Ferdinand Magellan." An example of this is asking students to recall and draw a specific situation, such as the first day of school this year. Ask the students to be detectives while they put together their work, "Ask yourselves: who? what? how? where? when? and why?"
After a science lesson in which we looked at a plant and discussed its parts, a direct perception activity that I could implement would be drawing the plant. I would ask students to use their senses to draw the plant.
Amber Couch
ReplyDeletePersonal experience can be very helpful in motivating students. It gives the students a way to express themselves, and think about a creative way to bring a memory to life. It challenges them to bring not only the physical aspects of the memory to life, but how that memory made them feel at the time. It challenges them to think about the composition, how to use the materials provided in a creative way, and to perhaps seek more information on how to exactly proceed to make the art project the way they want to.
An extension exercise that I would use direct perception in would be after drawing a nature scene from a photo, I would take my class outside for out door life painting. I would take my students out doors with water color paints and paper, and ask them to choose an interesting spot of nature and try to paint it. I would ask them to pay attention to the textures they see (such as tree bark, veins on a leaf), how the colors change if there is a shadow, and ask them to think about the composition. This would benefit the students because they are forced to truly pay attention to fine details, and how light effects color. Also, it shows the difference between drawing form a picture, to drawing form life.
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Katelynn Lovrien
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Personal experiences should be used to motivate students as often as possible. When I was in school, I always found myself asking "Why do I need to know this?" and most teachers would respond "because you just do." In this type of situation, my teachers should have tried to relate the task or concept to something that I may have experienced or may experience in the future. My favorite teachers would always share things in story form. I remember learning about history through stories of bravery, sadness, kindness, and adventure. All of the stories had an element I could relate to and that always sucked me right in, made me reflect on my own experiences, and motivated me to learn more.
An activity I would use to demonstrate direct perception would to take my students "on site" to draw, or paint a scene from a book the class is reading. If my class was learning about Laura Ingles Wilder and life on the prairie, I would take my students out to a prairie. I want them to experience the wind whipping through their hair, the sound of emptiness echoing in their ears, and the warm sun on their face while they recreate the prairie scene on their canvass.
Using personal experiences in a great motivational tool in a classroom. "Experiences is not what happens to us; it is what we do with those events that counts." Art gives children a chance to put express their feelings about their experiences. They can use the Who? What? Where? When? and Why? to help them recall these events with greater detail.
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DeleteRachel Haug
ReplyDeletePersonal experiences can really help motivate a class by helping them make a connection between something that they are learning or creating. If the students are painting a picture of a flower you could bring some actual flowers in to give the students inspiration, or you could share with the students a story about the time you planted flowers in your garden or how you would always get red roses for valentines day.
An activity that I could implement with my class using direct perception would be using props or involving something real for the kids to use as inspiration and motivation to draw or create with. While drawing a sea picture the children could actually go to the sea and use all of there five senses to create the picture.
An activity I could do for direct perception could be what I did in art class. We had different groups and we each had some type of flower(s) in the middle of our desks. Our assignment was to draw from the angle we were sitting at. I think this would be a good activity because you could have each group present and the class as a whole can see the one flower in so many different ways.
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