Digital AuthorshipRenee Hobbs

EDC 534University of Rhode Island

Instructional Practices

Provocation

An object, images, sound, person, event or action that is deliberately ambiguous,

unexpected. The lack of predetermined interpretation is a trigger for meaning-making.

Instructional Practices of Teaching Artists

Instructional Practices

The Texts of Our Lives

An acceptance of porous boundaries between school and home combines with a readiness to

translate and re-imagine events, stories, characters in familiar settings.

Instructional Practices of Teaching Artists

Instructional Practices

Permission to Play

Silliness, eccentricity and larger-than-lifeness disrupt “school ways” of thinking and doing.

Appreciation of the carnivalesque.

Instructional Practices of Teaching Artists

Instructional Practices

Open Ended Challenges

Learning outcomes are not pre-determined. What is learned is a trajectory or journey but not chosen by the teacher in advance. Focus

on intrinsic motivation and student-developed skills of discrimination and judgment.

Instructional Practices of Teaching Artists

Instructional Practices

Self as a Teaching Resource

Open talk about personal life based on the expectation that students are interested in the identity of the teaching artist. Use of body to make meaning. Narrative and performance-

oriented activity.

Instructional Practices of Teaching Artists

Instructional Practices

Professional Norms & Routines

Teamwork and ensemble sensibility is designed as distinct from student identity. Direct instruction and traditions of fine art used as a formal model for student work.

Rhythm and flow of class time is highlighted rather than speed or smoothness of

transitions.

Instructional Practices of Teaching Artists