I still don't feel like I have really gotten rolling on my research, but now I feel like I can after we talked about what I can start. I gave my students the pre-instruction survey on Friday, but I haven't reviewed results. Students also wrote their second process journals on Friday. Next week, I plan to review the data from the survey and the journals to plan some voice mini-lessons.
My Drawing students are the first group that has finished their skill building practice and is ready to apply those skills to a creative project. We did a whole group brainstorming activity where I gave them big concepts on post-it notes and we started adding other topics and sub topics to the list. Finally, I had them add specific personal experiences and connections underneath the sub topics. I knew at least two of my students were struggling, but after the activity I talked with one of my new students and she seemed a lot more confident. When we first conferenced about her idea, she was stuck on images of skeletons, aliens, and dreamcatchers from Google. After the activity she is focused on a mythological creature/deity that she knows about and is combining multiple reference photos to create an original image. I am pretty confident that my research falls under Grounded Theory. I am a little intimidated by how specific the analysis techniques seem, but I'm sure it will make more sense when I get there.
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Wendy
9/11/2016 07:12:02 pm
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AuthorMorgan Singleton is a secondary art educator with a Master's degree in art education. Archives
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