Anyone Can Teach Art | from Ridge Light Ranch

You can find the written version of this blog post at:

http://ridgelightranch.com/improve-memory-confidence-grades/

Here's the Highlights:

• The benefits for handwriting
• How to improve handwriting
• Handwriting is an art form
• Practice, Practice, Practice!

Things I mention is this episode:

• "The Man Health Perks of Good Handwriting" from the Chicago Tribune June 15, 2011 by Julie Deardorff,
• "What's Lost as Handwriting Fades" from The New York Times, June 2, 2014 by Maria Konnikova
• Renaissance - Impressionists Amazing Artist Handwriting Sheets
• American Amazing Artist Handwriting Sheets
• Making a Statement with Grant Wood's American Gothic Lesson plan
• Painting in Tones Like OKeeffe Lesson Plan
• Drawing Botanicals like Linnaeus Lesson Plan

Here's the Highlights:

-Separate your media & only put out one per week

-Have a home for the supplies on the off days / off season

-Make a chart of 6 weeks of art projects by week and a 2nd chart that's a shopping list

-Quality vs price

• "student grade"
• quality makes you more likely to keep it later
• printer paper: at least 24 lb

-What teachers/parents can do with finished art

1. Create a Portfolio
2. Take photos
3. Trash / recycle

Things we mention is this episode:

• Ridge Light Ranch blog post "Organizing Art Once and For All: http://ridgelightranch.com/organizing-art-once-and-for-all/
• Oversized Portfolio ($10-15 on Amazon.com or Blick.com)

You can find the written version of this blog post at:

http://ridgelightranch.com/organizing-art-once-and-for-all/

Here's the Highlights:

• Planning in Advance
• Periodically Meeting with Other Teachers
• Carrying Supplies to Class
• The Night Before Class

In this podcast episode, Deanna and Julie discuss the Ridge Light Ranch blog post, "How to Overcome the Fear of Teaching Drawing." (You can read the blog post OR listen to it!)

Here's the Highlights:

• How common is this fear of teaching art? (Very!)
• The fear of teaching art is a combination of:
• • The fear of having to draw on demand with people watching and
  • The Imposter Syndrome, which causes us to ask "Who am I to be teaching this?"
• How do we get past the Imposter Syndrome?
• • We don't need "experts"
  • Just share what you know
• Where do we start when teaching something we're not an expert at? Drills!
• • How drills fit into the classical model of education
  • Drills and instruction never stifle creativity
  • Drills create an opportunity for creativity to emerge
  • The self-leveling effect of drills. (They work for all skill levels)
  • Be willing to try. Be willing to fail!

Things we mention is this episode:

• Ridge Light Ranch blog post "How to Overcome the Fear of Teaching Drawing"
• Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

Is the idea of teaching drawing making you nervous? I want to help you with some tips and encouragement. You can teach art!!

You can find the written version of this blog post at:

http://ridgelightranch.com/overcome-fear-teaching-drawing/

Things we mention is this episode:

• Ridge Light Ranch blog post "Everyone's Creative": http://ridgelightranch.com/everyones-creative/
• Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers
• 2012 Scientific American article advocating that art classes be added to the STEM education path
• Samuel Hubbard Scudder's 1874 essay In the Laboratory With Agassiz (sometimes referred to as Look at Your Fish).
• My Pinterst board of art project ideas: simple drawing ideas

You can also listen to Deanna and Julie discuss this blog post in the Anyone Can Teach Art Podcast episode 4.

Deanna and Julie discuss some of the ideas in the Ridge Light Ranch blog post "Everyone's Creative" and answer the questions:

• Why is it important to see yourself as creative?
• What does it mean that we're "created to create?"
• What are the repercussions of not having a creative outlet?

You can find the written version of the blog post we discuss at: http://ridgelightranch.com/everyones-creative/

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Have you ever heard someone say they weren't creative? Have you ever said you weren't creative? I wholeheartedly believe everyone's creative. Let me convince you.

You can find the written version of this blog post at: http://ridgelightranch.com/everyones-creative/

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