Pedagogies of the Artist: Teaching Strategies for New Faculty & Graduate TAs

The table below indicates the way 60 minutes will be spent during this proposed workshop. A mini-sketchbook will be given to each participant at the start of the event and permit attendees to make quick sketches and record short responses to various prompts issued throughout the hour.

Time	Topic	Activity	Visual/Powerpoint Slide
:00	Why me? Introductions 1) Presenter & Attendees 2) Pedagogy and the Arts 3) Define: Arts-based and Critical Methodologies	Reflect, Sketch, & Discuss Approaches for engaging undergraduate arts & art history students	Slide: Pedagogy & the Arts
:15	Nuts-n-Bolts 1) Preparing for the semester 2) Syllabus content musts! 3) Time management		Slide: 1) The “Dos & Don’ts” of a constructive syllabus 2) Strategies for organizing time Handout: “Dos & Don’ts”
:25	Pedagogy 1) The first day of class! 2) Building community in the classroom 3) Critical thinking with visual metaphors 4) Undergraduates as scholars/artists 5) Engaging demonstrations, lectures, & presentations 6) Critique strategies 7) Rubrics and peer evaluations	Reflect & Discuss 1) Experiences/memories of motivating classroom experiences and meaningful feedback 2) Interactions with professors that "changed" you	Slide: Examples of engaging prompts Handouts: 1) Classroom community-building strategies 2) Critique strategies 3) Examples of meaningful feedback
:50	Self-Reflections 1) Making a generic classroom “yours” 2) Art-making/research processes & your teaching practices 3) Issues that challenge values and beliefs	Reflect & Sketch Artist-self + Teacher-self	Slide: 1) “Be Inspired!” 2) Access to detailed syllabi, discussion prompts, assessment tools, etc. Handout: Supplementary references to literature
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