Sharing Student Work to Enhance Learning and Build Community Christine Goodheart ESP Summer Seminar July, 2006

Essential Question Essential Question What are all of the positive outcomes you can imagine when students share their work with the school community and the broader community?

“Work in the arts is not only a way of creating performances and products, it is a way of creating our lives” -Elliot Eisner, Arts and the Creation of Mind

Example Unit: The Swimming Pool Look at Matisse’s work. Think of an environment you could create using cut and torn paper….

Examples of Sharing Student Work Showing the learning process: Students create an exhibit in the school that shows 3 revisions of each piece and notes on what they were working on in each revision Post it notes are available for others to comment on work

Engaging the community…… Students work with their families create a community mural on the playground Students choose works of art and become tour guides for families at the museum Students conduct family workshops at the school Students display their work and create a slide show and art project at senior centers in the community

What are some examples of ways you have enhanced the presentation of student work in your own school practice?

What could you add or change to these specific presentations of student work to maximize learning and community engagement?

A School Play: Alice in Wonderland A School Play: Alice in Wonderland

An exhibit of nature photography An exhibit of nature photography

Tip-Sheet: Maximizing the learning value when students Share their work Based on our discussion, if we were going to write a “Tip-sheet” for schools to use when they present or exhibit student work, what would this look like?

Challenge Make some notes on one way you have shared student work. In groups of three, present your example to others and get their best ideas. Chose one example and your three best ideas to share with the group.

Based on our discussion, add to our tip-sheet

To engage with works of art is to go in search of fresh connections, unexpected meanings, to engage in acts of continuing discovery. - Maxine Greene, Variations on a Blue Guitar