Jethro is so awesome! He shared a powerpoint with us about his masters thesis, which was a small portable art gallery that he had in the high school where he taught. He had students show their AP work at the end of the year inside the gallery. He said that this helped students to take ownership of their art. He showed us a lot of pictures over the years, and how the gallery kind of progressed. At first, he was very involved in helping students plan and hang the art. But he said after awhile, students would come to him with these great ideas, and instead of him doing a big part of the work for them, he would tell the student "awesome! go figure out how to do it!" I love that!
He also showed us his tally mark artwork, which is awesome! I would love to use him as an example in my future lessons on repetition.
"You can't teach anyone to be creative, but you can give them an environment"
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