CHANGING THE SUBJECT WORKSHOP
AT DEEPER LEARNING SAN DIEGO 2022
DOCUMENTATION OF TEACHER PLANNING AND STUDENT WORK IS THE PURPOSE OF
CHANGING THE SUBJECT
Look through the book Changing the Subject;
changingthesubject.org What project strikes you at first glance? What is one aspect that seems interesting? (Could be a photo, description, or what is missing) Introduce yourself by sharing your impressions to the group. |
Put It To Practice
Imagine your school made a book like this every year.
Make a chapter in this book
by farming the internet or your own phone.
If you do not have a recent project you can make one up.
These are the components we used in the book,
you can use all, some or none of these.
Project Title
(The most important, I love puns for this)
Where did the project come from?
Learning Goals
Teacher Exemplar
Teacher Planning
Exhibition
(Where does this project live?)
Student Work
Jeff's number one rule for teaching of any kind is: "Do the Project yourself." We looked at our phones and did the project ourselves first.
Jeff's Exemplar
Jeff's Exemplar
OUTLINE AND DECORATE
I N HONOR OF THE LATE GREAT WAYNE THIEBAUD
K I N D E R G A R D E N • T W E L F T H G R A D E
A R T • W R I T I N G • M A T H • J E F F R O B I N
ANY SCHOOL • ANY CLASSROOM • ANY SUBJECT
Where did the project come from?This project came from my sadness that a wonderful 20th-century artist died. Thiebaud applied to everyone. We all like sweets, colorful lines, and a simplicity that clears the haze and the problems. He distilled what a child would see entering a candy store or a bakery and added colorful outlines that made these confections stand out, highlighting what is delicious in our world. My students loved his work and often used his methods, subjects, and reason for creation in their works.
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Wayne Thiebaud, Pies, 2005
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Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1988
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Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963
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Learning Goals
•Use outlines and abstraction to focus your composition
•Use symmetry to organize the image
•Technology: Make a Maquette on Sketch Up or in Photoshop
•Write about the image or the process. Why is Thiebaud's motif so compelling?
•Describe within your mathematical ability a formula explaining your composition
•Use outlines and abstraction to focus your composition
•Use symmetry to organize the image
•Technology: Make a Maquette on Sketch Up or in Photoshop
•Write about the image or the process. Why is Thiebaud's motif so compelling?
•Describe within your mathematical ability a formula explaining your composition
Teacher Exemplar
I just happen to have lots of images, you can take your from the internet, relax it is for educational purposes, no one here is making money
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A maquette I made with sushi instead of sweets.
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Student Exhibition
Student Work (my students work over the years)
Exhibition- This work could be exhibited around the school, in student publications and online. Most of the work above is in . . .
and in an online exhibition from Motive and Motif on jeffrobin.com
Jean's Exemplar