05-OBSERVATIONS+&+OUTCOMES

When assessing my students, the question I have had in mind related to this unit is **HOW? and WHAT?,** because I am talking about “Art”; I am a Literacy teacher so I have never done such a thing. I love Art, especially painting as you can notice, and that is what I wanted to transmit to my students, I think I eventually got it. When I am making any picture or crafting activity I never let anybody to neither tell me nor teach me how to do it, not because I am an expert or think I am so, but because I understand “Art” as something you do using your imagination, own criteria and creativity, and there are no rules with regard to it. So I am assessing my students’ effort and implication with their Art work as well as their attitude towards the topic, and their relationship with their classmates in order to help them and be able to make positive comments. The main goal for me was to let students understand that every work is respectful, any idea, any way of portraying someone and it does not matter how they represent themselves (especially when talking about nude portraits), I mean respecting others’ point of view as well as their own. I think I have let them have a wider view of the area of Arts and crafts, not as they have always seen it, but being able to see the wide range of possibilities it can offer us. They have been working autonomously when looking for information at home (which was taken to school immediately, I was gratefully surprise they took it so seriously), or when working with the interactive games related to museums or famous painters. They were wonderful and surprising activities, children loved them though I was afraid they didn’t work, but they did!!! But the most surprising thing for me was to see that they were not surprised when seeing Frida Khalo’s self-portraits exaggerating her eyebrows or moustache, they did not even advertise it, because they have learned to see themselves as they would like to be, accept their imperfections or their physical appearance. One of the boys wanted to portray himself with a woman appearance, just because he felt comfortable with that idea, so he asked me if he could do so; most of his classmates did not laugh at the idea. It was a wonderful experience, though he finally did not do it, I do not know why, I did not ask him. I wanted my students to get a wider view of Art, not only about the subject area of art and crafts, but about the world of painting in the 20th century, and about the possible imperfections or irregularities in famous portraits that are part of the artist idea and theory of originality, creativity and freedom when creating. My students were completely free to decide what was right or wrong, it was their choice, their work, their portrait. I was just a mediator or a resource but never an assessor. So it was/ is very difficult for me to test or assess their work, perhaps you can do it.

**__MATISSE'S CUT-OUTS SELF-PORTRAITS__.** This is a sample of some of my students' cut-out, as you can see they all tried to do their best and I think some of them got it.

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