SEA Sketchbook Art Pieces
In SEA, we use the arts to inquire into issues of teaching and learning. To do this, we keep a sketchbook that documents our journey through the program and our internships. The sketchbook is a place to draw, visualize, write about, and imagine the type of teacher I’d like to one day become. We also use the sketchbook to explore and think about my beliefs, my emerging teaching philosophy, and my theories of practice. In this section, you will find three examples of sketchbook pieces I did this year.
This artwork was inspired for an assignment that tasked us to create an art piece describing a takeaway we learned from the Foundations of Education unit. I created this to demonstrate the factors of being a teacher. The top illustrates some benefits and the bottom is a visual of challenges of being a teacher.
This piece represents the full circle experience I had during my first internship. Since my mentor was my fourth grade teacher, it was such an amazing experience to go from being one of the fourth graders to standing next to my teacher teaching a new generation of fourth graders.
One of our units in English was learning about the power of doodling in class and how it can help students focus. We were assigned to doodle in a page of our sketchbooks for a week. Here is what I created.