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Art on a Shoestring - 2006/02/18 16:18
ART ON A SHOESTRING:
I am often asked if this method (choice-based teaching) is more expensive in materials; I do not think that it is. What you present depends entirely on what materials you are able to get. I have used this method when I had a small art budget and I have used it with a much larger budget. One advantage of choice is that you do not have to have enough of anything for everybody to use it at one time. I am able to try out new materials in very small quantities. When I introduced fan brushes to the paint center I only had six of them; because there were usually fewer than eight painters at a time, this was not a problem. I once spoke with a teacher whose husband had made her a lovely set of 25 wooden weaving looms. She only taught weaving to one or two classes per year, because everybody had to do it...and of course that sort of weaving took weeks and weeks, and she only had those 25 looms. In my classroom those looms could most likely cover five or six classes, as only a few students would commit to a long project like that. And those students would do quite well, because weaving would be important to them.
From Teaching for Artistic Behavior
http://tabchoiceteaching.blogspot.com/
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