Remote Learning: How to draw Digital Portraits of Venezuelan Orphans!
Help me give my students the chance to continue the tradition of my art class drawing portraits of orphans even in distance learning during the pandemic.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Our Title I school serves free breakfast for 85% of the students, and they get to the school early to eat the breakfast that they don’t get at home. My students eat their breakfast at school each morning before they come to my class. Fuel in their bodies makes them ready to learn and start the day.
We are a uniform school.
Some kids have uniforms that fit and are clean, and others have uniforms that are too big, too small, and don't really look clean. The majority of kids are happy, energetic, and ready to learn, but some students have trouble staying awake and staying focused. They come every day from group homes, and some are homeless or being raised by grandparents.
My students are 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys and girls who are growing, trying, creating, experiencing, experimenting, challenging, and ultimately becoming educated with art in my classroom.
My classes are all year long, so I can work with these students in-depth with technology, get to know their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and see their creativity develop as their experience with art increases and grows.
My Project
This project is to support the Memory Project during this pandemic with drawing 30 orphans from Venezuela. This will keep alive this opportunity to send portraits to orphans in different countries even during the Covid 19 pandemic. For my students to have the opportunity to learn about a different country, a country that speaks Spanish as the majority of students at this school do is a great opportunity for them. To meet these students through their photograph and by drawing them, learning about their country is a great community service project using art that we have participated in for 8 years and 15 different countries. Students are learning art skills and this year they will learn how to digitally draw a portrait on their Chromebooks at home during distant learning. They will learn geography, history, art techniques, art history all by completing portrait drawings of orphans in Venezuela.
Most important in this time they will connect with children their own age, many miles away, with less then they have and gain an understanding of life around the world and in Venezuela.
More than three‑quarters 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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