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Teaching Videos and Discussion
- What FA strategy/strategies is the teacher using?
- What do you notice about student learning/understanding?
- What could the teacher do better?
- What questions do you have for this teacher?
Lisa Bostwick
Art Educator, Drew School
San Francisco, CA
11th and 12th grade Art History
October 2022
Lesson Overview: In this mini lesson, students are exploring the visual art concepts of (1) form (how something is done – medium, styles, etc.) and (2) content (subject matter, ideas). Students will be determining whether the four items listed below are examples of form or content.
- Sonnet
- Impressionism
- A crown
- Thick gray paint in stripes from dark to light on a square canvas
Anastasia Zamkinos
English Language Arts Educator, Drew School
San Francisco, CA
11th grade English Honors
Lesson Overview: Students just finished viewing the film Moonlight and are determining whether the main protagonist is psychologically free (versus at the beginning of the film). Later in the lesson, students will craft a two-sentence statement about the character, Chiron, and the film’s message of freedom.
Mary Kerr
Science Educator, Drew School
Lesson Date: October 31, 2022
12th grade Engineering
Lesson Overview: Students just completed a unit where they designed and built a bridge (Mary will refer to the bridge during the video). In this video clip, Mary and students are reviewing the Engineering Design Process so Mary can gauge individual student understanding of each design process step.