1. Sketchbook-Journal: Sculpture 1-4 Prompts and Work Samples Art Education Fulton County Schools 2007

2. Why Sketchbook Journals? They Develop: Technical Skills: drawing skills, design skills, and media exploration. Thinking and Personal Expression through art: to learn processes for idea development; this doesn’t just happen, we have to consciously teach these processes. Learning: Reflection on personal growth, ideas, connections among art class learning, other classes, and life outside school.

3. Two Aspects of Sketchbook/Journals Journal Personal ideation Concept development Reflection Sketchbook Technical skill building Studies Micro labs Students need both There are many way ways to structure the combination: sketchbook begins on one side of book, journal begins on the other; simply intersperse both types of work or?

4. Teachers need to: explicitly teach ways to develop ideas/concepts. Then... explicitly teach for moving ideas from journals into other artwork.

5. It’s a Developmental Process Sculpture 1 – prompts need more structured so students can think conceptually, develop ideas from and personal responses to the world around them while building technical skills in Photography. As students continue through Sculpture 2-4 prompts should become more open ended and become source material for projects and future artworks.

6. We need your samples