Help me give my students materials to promote a love of art at home.
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My Students
Distance learning has, unsurprisingly, been a challenge for teachers all across the world during this unprecedented pandemic. We left our physical school on Friday, March 13, and launched our online learning the following Monday. Our school is a Title I elementary school that serves nearly 400 students, with 55% of our students coming from low-income backgrounds.
My resilient, hardworking fifth graders have risen to the challenges of distance learning and have quickly and skillfully adapted to these difficult circumstances.
They continue to push themselves academically across all content areas to continue their growth and set themselves up for success as they transition to new middle schools next year.
Our fifth graders will begin their final year of elementary school participating in remote learning. Each year, the first six weeks are dedicated to building community and relationships among students. Distance learning presents an obvious challenge to establishing the foundations for our class community because we will not be physically together. To offset these challenges, we will be exploring ways to build community while promoting social and emotional well-being among the members of our class.
My Project
The goal of this project, Artistic Exploration During Distance Learning, is to help continue to foster a love of art while equipping students with resources to engage in hands-on art experiences at home. In March, we left our classroom in a whirlwind with the expectation that we would be back in school within a few weeks. This is an unprecedented time, and we were unable to send our learners home with the resources and materials to allow them to continue engaging in every learning experience from home.
Since August, my learners have proven to be hardworking and committed to their academic progress during this very unusual school year, yet their social, emotional needs cannot be denied.
Art is a way of engaging all students in a stress-free way to allow them to express themselves and unwind. Each child's home situation is very different and art provides us with a common ground. The purpose of this project is to help provide students with art kits at home so that they have the materials they need to participate in continued art learning with the class as well as pursue their interests in art independently. These resources will support our English Language learners as well as our learners with special education needs.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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