Sheldon Engagement: TEAC 452W

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Students use art to explore how nontraditional texts can enhance social science teaching.

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[00:00:05.550]For the past two weeks, my students have been working on
[00:00:08.630]visual literacy as a means of thinking about
[00:00:11.180]ways of teaching critical thinking skills.
[00:00:18.720]Thinking about secondary social science.
[00:00:20.890]One of the things I try to get across to students
[00:00:22.670]is the powerful opportunity that artwork evokes
[00:00:26.520]in terms of speaking to our humanity.
[00:00:29.100]You know, we think in pictures.
[00:00:30.160]We think in, you know, visual.
[00:00:31.380]We're surrounded by propaganda.
[00:00:33.660]We're surrounded by advertisements.
[00:00:35.130]We're surrounded by all things,
[00:00:36.330]but this type of activity is really intended
[00:00:38.200]to start encouraging students, who are soon to be teachers,
[00:00:43.130]to encourage their own students
[00:00:44.210]to think critically about visual elements.
[00:00:49.200]So, the thing that's interesting about artworks like this.
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[00:00:59.789]They've done a lot of reading, thinking about
[00:01:01.069]different types of theories and strategies
[00:01:03.600]for integrating art in secondary social studies.
[00:01:06.150]So the purpose of coming here to the Sheldon
[00:01:08.800]was to begin that process of identifying
[00:01:11.670]a particular research-based strategy,
[00:01:13.060]and then identifying specific artworks
[00:01:15.070]that they can think about teaching within
[00:01:17.110]their own practicum.
[00:01:17.943]'Cause each one of the students that are in my class now,
[00:01:20.220]they are in a practicum,
[00:01:22.000]either high school or middle school.
[00:01:23.310]It's a different way to approach it.
[00:01:25.270]So like, a lot of social sciences
[00:01:27.110]has the stigma of just teachers standing up
[00:01:29.590]and lecturing about things.
[00:01:31.100]So it's like a really cool way
[00:01:32.250]to take students' visual approach to learning,
[00:01:35.670]which is how the majority of students learn
[00:01:37.200]is through visual aides, so it's a really different way
[00:01:39.210]to go about it.
[00:01:40.043]And hopefully, you'll like dig deeper
[00:01:41.420]into students' critical thinking.
[00:01:43.632]And so, thinking about the context of where they teach,
[00:01:46.440]what are some of the specific works here
[00:01:49.020]that I can hone in on to speak to a larger theme
[00:01:52.560]that I'm trying to get across to the students
[00:01:54.040]that I work with?
[00:01:55.020]So for this project, I think specifically
[00:01:57.120]we're looking at how we can integrate this
[00:01:58.820]into our practicum.
[00:02:00.090]And so, right now I'm teaching a freshman civics class.
[00:02:02.820]I think the biggest advantage is the accessibility,
[00:02:05.380]being able to walk across campus
[00:02:07.630]and during a class that we have, view all of these
[00:02:10.590]wonderful pieces of art, and then being able to
[00:02:12.410]take that back and use it in a tangible way
[00:02:14.930]in a classroom.
[00:02:15.980]I'm a senior, and this is the first time I've been here.
[00:02:18.110]So it's really cool that my professor
[00:02:19.570]decided to bring us all here today.
[00:02:21.120]Definitely gonna come here more often.
[00:02:22.270]There's beautiful pieces here.
[00:02:24.010]In my experience, both as a classroom teacher
[00:02:25.970]and as a teacher educator, those types of experiences
[00:02:27.930]for students are just incredibly powerful.
[00:02:30.200]And so, I want my students to understand
[00:02:32.510]the power of these types of works
[00:02:35.100]and how they can impact their teaching.
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