Days past & Curriculi

Like Elizabeth I thought it best to use the ASSURE model to tighten up the lesson planning for my digital narrative project.

Analyze Learners
For this lesson I selected college students with a focus on art as my target audience. I expect these students to competently analyze, critique, and discuss ideas about visual aesthetics, and artistic concepts.

State Objectives
Students will be able to discuss the use of symbols and references to iconography in art. Also students will be able to display an understanding of allegory and parable generally and as it relates to art.

Select Instructional Methods, Media and Materials
I will us a roundtable discussion methodology, a symbol dictionary, slides of historical uses of symbols in art.

Utilize Media and Materials
Start by defining the topics and terms at hand. Watch the narrative video and keep track at the different types of symbol and possible allegories that could be found.

Require Learner Participation
Have students participate in conversation regarding the presentation. Provide examples and meaning using the symbol dictionary, or have the class reflect and review the types of symbol and meaning that could be used in there own artwork.

Evaluate and Revise
I used the Understanding by Design evaluation flow to organize my thoughts on reviewing and revising this lesson plan; below are my results.

Teacher:
1.Were you able to fit in all of the planned segements of the lesson?
2.Was the session focused on the objective? Was I able to adjust appropriately while staying in scope?
3.Was I able to teach or was I simply managing the classroom?
4.Was I forced to focus on specific students due to any circumstances created by the activity. Planed or unplanned?

Student:
1.Verbal quiz before and/or after?
2.Are students able to accurately use vocabulary that pertains to iconography and symbol usage in art?
3. Were students able to understand techniques and use them effectively?
5.Did students learn and retain information about symbol, allegory and artists discussed.
6. Will students take these ideas and apply them to their own work?

Activity:
1.How long were students engaged with the activity? Was their excitement or boredom?
2.Was it a relatively balanced activity across the student body?
3.In the end, did the activity teach to the objective?