Hello, Friends!
So, as some of you know, I graduated last december with a Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics. During my last semester, I began teaching art lessons at the Boy's and Girl's Club in Valdosta. After our art class, I would bring hoops, and me and the kids would put on music and jam out and have a great time. That helped me realize how much I loved teaching, and working with children.
I decided to stay in school to get my teaching degree, and I'll be student teaching next semester. Every year, Georgia holds a state wide educators conference, and people hold workshops to explore different concepts/lesson ideas in art education. One of my teachers approached me with the idea that I do a hoop dance workshop. I'm very interested in conveying the idea that hoop dancing is not only a physical representation but is a visual art as well. Postmodern art education is all about connecting art to EVERYDAY life, and that we NEED art to convey certain messages that can't be described in a verbal way, and can make our lives so much better.
So I need your help! What are your thoughts on this?? Opinions? Ideas for activities? I'm trying to think of something that the teachers could use in the ART classroom... maybe have students view a video or images of fire/led hoopers and do some kind of mandala/radial symmetry project?
My head is overwhelmed and spinning :-) I need some outside points of view, pretty please!! I'm really determined to at least apply for this!!!