AHTR Lightning Round: Assessing Lesson Plans

I would be very interested in joining the AHTR Lightning Round: Assessing Lesson Plans as I am greatly interested in the proposed pedagogical practice for this session and fully support new pedagogical approaches that support students and educators in the field of art history. As the AHTR site promotes new ways of teaching and learning in the art history classroom, along with, the fact that students and pedagogy have changed in many ways in the last decade, I would be interested in potentially reviewing a lesson plan from the site and thinking about ways to incorporate more student-centered active learning approaches within the lesson plan to provide enhanced student engagement and deepen student learning. So many of us remember the traditional art history survey course we had in college with the lights off and slides being projected as a professor lectured and even though much time has passed, this is still often the typical approach to teaching art history today. However, there are also many other alternative student-centered active learning approaches that can be integrated within lectures and art history education to promote greater engagement for students in the classroom. Reimaging a lesson plan to integrate some of these approaches could offer inspiration and guidance to those interested in learning more about these student-centered methods and how to implement a wide variety of active learning approaches when teaching art history. Topics such as slow looking, inquiry based discussion, Visual Thinking Strategies, and/or hands on activities could potentially be discussed.