My students need rolling pins and slabbing strips for rolling clay to a uniform thickness. Rolled clay slabs will be used to create ceramic bowls, boxes, and more.
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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
The best learning happens when students are engaged in something challenging and fun. Working with clay, sculpting and creating three dimensional objects from their imaginations presents the kind of challenge that supports students' intellectual growth and achievement.
Our school is located in an ethnically diverse, low income, inner city neighborhood in the Northeast.
Students are accustomed to having less and doing without. Many of our students are very talented but families can't afford private art lessons and art-camp in the summer. So to be artistically successful, my students need a top notch public school art education program.
A ceramics program with professional tools and materials will give these children an educational experience that can change their lives and outlook on life!
My Project
Our students have one 50 minute art class per week. In order to make the most of their time I often require students to work in teams of two. In ceramics class, students will take turns rolling out the clay between the slab sticks and checking to see that their partner's slab is not too thick or too thin.
Here is a short list of projects students will create using rolled slabs of clay: free-form bowl (K), textured soap dish (1), Aztec sun plaque (2), fish-shaped dish (3), box with lid (4).
When students create with clay, they learn patience, they learn that it is important to follow rules and they experience that sense of accomplishment that comes from turning an idea into an object made with one's own two hands.
"Low-income students who had arts-rich experiences in high schools were more than three times as likely to earn a B.A.
as low-income students without those experiences....low-income high school students who earned few or no arts credits were five times more likely not to graduate from high school than low-income students who earned many arts credits." Prepared Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Report, "Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 2009-10"
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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