What strategies can you think of for incorporating sketching into your classroom and how do you handle a student who is reluctant to draw?
Sketching isn't only for science teachers. How might a history teacher incorporate sketching into their curriculum? I would love to hear how experts in other disciplines have, or might, incorporate sketching as a part of their curriculum.
It doesn't have to be a big projet - any way in which you might regularly add sketching or even as a one time project is interesting and can enhance our abilities to teach.
This is something that I continue to grapple with - how do you think you might handle a student who is reluctant to draw?
What kind of strategies might work to help encourage a student to try this approach to learning?
I mentioned in the podcast that the straight-A students are the ones who might resist the idea of incorporating sketching as a routine part of their learning. They have already figured out “the rules to the game” and might not want to add a new practice to their academic toolkit.
I have struggled with this as an issue - I don’t want to think of grades as punitive, but if a student is very grade motivated, maybe that might be the right way to encourage them? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this issue, as it is one that I still struggle with.
[Please identify grade level and subject, as that often influences applicability]
By the way, this week’s episode of Edutopia’s “School of Practice” podcast dives into both of these pieces of instructional practice.