Reflection for Decmeber 12, 2008

Reflection on December 12, 2009
As usual the first session of the day was devoted to house keeping. Raymond led the session in discussing Action Research and Scope and Sequence for the fine arts. We are then divided into various groups to work on the Visual Art standards and Scope and sequence. I was not clear as to what we were to do. In our group, it sounds as if all of us have different understanding as to what was to be done. At the end of the group meeting/discussion each one of us wrote what we thought was the requirement for the assignment. I hope the instructor after going through the written papers will give us a feedback as to how we perform inrelation to what was expected.
Session two was very emotional presentation by our instructor Lisa Whittington; she made a case for state or district assessments in visual art. She used her personal life experience as a poor child growing up in a New York project community and how visual art, has brought her to where she is today. In her presentation she made the case for assessment in the visual art backed by data. She made us aware that in President Bush (NCLB) NO Child left behind Fine Visual Arts was named as a Core Subject as at 2000, but states and district have not treated it as such ,hence the negative attitude towards the fine arts in the school. The day ended with John’s artistic class with discussion on the progress we are making on the series of sketches towards our art work for the June Exhibition.