Have you ever heard of Flow Learning™?
It’s a technique that Joseph Cornell from the Sharing Nature Foundation developed to help children channel their natural tendencies and curiosities into focused learning.
A fellow Sparkler, Chandi Holliman, shared this approach with me and I was immediately intrigued. In this episode of Art Made Easy, Chandi shares how she used this approach with her pre-school and young Kinders in the art room.
Chandi is a brand new Sparkler and is our featured Sparkler Spotlight for May. What I love about Chandi is her calm, intentional approach to children’s art making and her vigorous passion for arts, children and creating new opportunities.
This episode is for anyone who is interested in how meditation, yoga and calming practices help children grow into keen observers and makers.
Here are the basic tenets of Flow Learning ™:
1. Awakening Enthusiasm: how to introduce a lesson through warm-up exercises, reading a story, or playing a game.
2. Focused Attention: Using details from the warm-up to concentrate their focus.
3. Direct Experience: Handing out materials, pairing the right set of children together, playing music, moving from a silent flow into the main art lesson, or by asking for a calmer classroom.
4. Shared Inspiration: Asking students to share their experience and asking questions.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
– How Chandi went from being a Nanny to building her own school
– Why she incorporates yoga and meditation with her children
– How awakening enthusiasm builds engagement
– The reasons why literature can be a main source of inspiration
– How business decisions are easier to make when guided by a powerful mission
LISTEN TO THE SHOW
My best advice for teaching art to kids.
Have you ever heard of Flow Learning™?
It’s a technique that Joseph Cornell from the Sharing Nature Foundation developed to help children channel their natural tendencies and curiosities into focused learning.
A fellow Sparkler, Chandi Holliman, shared this approach with me and I was immediately intrigued. In this episode of Art Made Easy, Chandi shares how she used this approach with her pre-school and young Kinders in the art room.
Chandi is a brand new Sparkler and is our featured Sparkler Spotlight for May. What I love about Chandi is her calm, intentional approach to children’s art making and her vigorous passion for arts, children and creating new opportunities.
This episode is for anyone who is interested in how meditation, yoga and calming practices help children grow into keen observers and makers.
Here are the basic tenets of Flow Learning ™:
1. Awakening Enthusiasm: how to introduce a lesson through warm-up exercises, reading a story, or playing a game.
2. Focused Attention: Using details from the warm-up to concentrate their focus.
3. Direct Experience: Handing out materials, pairing the right set of children together, playing music, moving from a silent flow into the main art lesson, or by asking for a calmer classroom.
4. Shared Inspiration: Asking students to share their experience and asking questions.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
– How Chandi went from being a Nanny to building her own school
– Why she incorporates yoga and meditation with her children
– How awakening enthusiasm builds engagement
– The reasons why literature can be a main source of inspiration
– How business decisions are easier to make when guided by a powerful mission
LISTEN TO THE SHOW
LINKS & RESOURCES
Joseph Cornell, Sharing Nature
Best Practices for Acrylic Paints: AME 091
Charge What You’re Worth: AME 093
Ananda Sangha
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
I Am Yoga
You can visit Patty through Deep Space Sparkle on Facebook and Instagram
support@deepspacesparkle.com
LINKS & RESOURCES
Joseph Cornell, Sharing Nature
Best Practices for Acrylic Paints: AME 091
Charge What You’re Worth: AME 093
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
You can visit Patty through Deep Space Sparkle on Facebook and Instagram
support@deepspacesparkle.com
My best advice for teaching art to kids.
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For my first show, I wanted to tell you my story of how I became an art teacher. We all have different paths and this one is mine. I’ll share advice to those who are just starting out as an art teacher and some of my best tips for teaching art to kids.
This episode is for anyone who thinks they may not have the qualifications to be an art teacher. Teaching art to kids doesn’t have to happen inside a classroom. You can teach art at home, at a summer camp and even as a volunteer (like I did).
If you are an art teacher just beginning your journey, I’m sharing my best advice to get you through that tough first year. Download my free handout and keep it in your teacher planner and refer to it when you have a tough day.
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SHOW NOTES:
Drawing With Children: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages (Lab Series)
National Art Convention
CreativeLive- free online classes
Art Teachers Facebook Group
Website: Painted Paper in the Art Room (Laura Lohmann)
Website: Art of Education
Book: Classroom Management for Art, Music, and PE Teachers
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Thank you ever so for you post.Much thanks again.
So good! Will be using all of this in my classroom!!!