Blocks Paper Scissors Podcast

I started this podcast with the intention of getting a stand alone website to host the content. Since then, I have learned more than a few things and then some. It just doesn't make sense to me to have the same information available in two places.  I have decided to move the podcast over to Podbean. Blocks Paper Scissors Nothing will change about this podcast other than, we will be able to spend more time making the podcast and not trying to put it everywhere. This blog has been a great start and I hope you will continue to listen to Clyde and I talk about TAB and art education. This will stay up for 30 more days but will not be updated. After that time. I will remove it from the blogger site. Thank you for listening. See you on Podbean :)

Listen to Blocks Paper Scissors Podcast # 6 here In this episode, we discuss constructivism and how it relates to a TAB artroom. As mentioned in the podcast. Here are the twelve indicators (TAB) adapted from In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin G. Brooks 1.Choice based art teachers encourage and accept student autonomy and initiative.  2.Because of the very nature of visual arts education, choice based art teachers use primary sources and raw, physical, manipulative interactive materials to inspire and catalyze learners. 3.Choice based art teachers encourage students to generate, utilize and create their own ideas and artistic problems when engaged in art making activities. 4.In order to facilitate ownership, choice based art teachers allow students to drive artistic activity, shift instructional strategies and alter instructional content. 5.Choice based art teachers make inquiries into student’s previ