Teach Anything

Students lead a short workshop on a skill or topic they know and want to share. Classmates participate, observe how the workshop is taught, and give written feedback. This first teaching experience helps students identify strengths and questions to carry into later lessons.

Pedagogical Explorations

Students read art education scholarship and develop lesson ideas in response. Presentations connect the readings with examples of teaching practice. Classmates discuss how the proposed lessons could be adapted for different ages, communities, and settings.

Lesson Development and Teaching

Working in pairs, students develop a lesson plan, assessment tools, a rubric, and a teacher sample. Students rehearse and teach the lesson to classmates, who participate and provide feedback. Brief classroom role-play gives presenters practice responding to different student behaviors. Presenters also review submitted artwork in relation to their lesson objectives.

Community Art Workshops

Students facilitate art activities outside the classroom. Workshops at Clark-Lindsey involve planning and teaching with older adults. At the Urbana Fall Fusion Festival, students support a public craft activity for children. Students adjust their instructions and support to participants and write about what they learned afterward.

Peer Observation and Feedback

Throughout the course, students take turns teaching, participating, and observing. Written feedback asks students to describe specific teaching choices, suggest changes, and consider what they could use in their own practice. Reflection prompts change as students move through the assignments.

Professional Website

Students begin a website to document their development as art educators. The website includes an introduction, community workshop experience, and photographs and reflections from their teaching. Students continue developing the website in ARTE 301.