I didn’t teach at Wellington this week but I did lead my class of 8th graders through their first formal critique. They are an art 2 class, so they have taken art before and are at least somewhat into it. The project they did the critique on was pet portraits. They each picked a pet from a PowerPoint of all the teachers’ pets. They had somewhat open choice of media, wet media – acrylic, watercolor, and tempera and dry media- graphite, charcoal, and colored pencil.

I have my lesson plan linked                   specifically looking at my post-lesson critique reflection. It gives a lot of insight to my process and the successes and troubles that came with the lesson

In relating it to art education theories and practices, I would say it taught me the most about the practical application of units and consecutive lessons to build skills. With something like critique, I would like to build up and solid foundation of academic language and comfortability talking about art. I specify how I would slowly build up a unit in my critique reflection.