My students need to participate in the Memory Project.
$394 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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.
I am the art teacher in large, urban New Jersey school with roughly 800 students. Students here are ethnically diverse and speak a multitude of languages including English, Spanish, Bengali, and Arabic. Many of these students do not speak English when they arrive here.
Arts integration is one of the ways we teach our ethnically diverse population, combining traditional content areas such as art and social studies to create new and innovative lessons that stress student engagement and achievement.
Teachers in our school often collaborate with each other, sharing ideas, content area connections, and teaching strategies.
All of our students receive free breakfast and lunch.At our school, we provide a high quality, rigorous, and meaningful education for all students. Our primary aim here is to create a highly successful community that inspires a passion for learning. Each student is treated as the unique individual the he/she is. All students are expected to succeed and encouraged to achieve a standard of excellence while working toward chosen career goals.
My Project
We are creating art portraits (pencil drawings) of young Filipino children from photos of themselves that they already sent to us. We are getting to know these children though looking at their photographs and then drawing them. We have been wondering about their lives and wondering what their childhoods are like. As art students, we want this to be an opportunity to creatively practice kindness and global awareness.
We want the portraits to help the children feel valued and important, to know that many people care about their well being, and to act as meaningful pieces of personal history in the future.
Through drawing them and talking about them we are feeling a sense of kinship with these Filipino children and want to make a positive difference in their lives.
In addition to drawing their portraits, we are each writing a letter to one of them in their official language of Tagalog. We are learning geographic, historic, and cultural facts facts about the Philippines.
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