Name of teaching material
Target | Students in the lower secondary division |
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Disability category | deaf and hard of hearing |
Teaching units / Applicable scenes | drawing and crafts, art |
Specific purposes | Learning to appreciate art plays an extremely important role in art teaching. Children need this appreciation to connect creative motivation—which itself is evoked by an appreciation of the goodness and beauty of a work—to creative and subjective expression. In class, it is important for students not only to summarize their own impressions in words, but also to present them in front of other students and to exchange opinions with each other. The students use words to express the relationship between the work and themselves and reinforce and refine their own thoughts through various feelings and opinions. Through such processes, students can clearly form an awareness of their expressive activities and the path to creation. I produced this teaching material to promote art appreciation learning in a smooth manner and to enable students to understand the learning content. |
Considerations for disability characteristics |
At the Special Needs Education School for the Deaf at the University of Tsukuba (School for the Deaf) the language proficiency of the students varies, making it difficult to deepen the art appreciation learning of all the students. “Software for art appreciation by using students’ work—Enjoyable Art” is a supplementary teaching material for art appreciation learning. It was developed to solve problems at our school by using a visual teaching method. The reading of written comments presented with images of the work and explanations of art terms supplements the students’ language proficiency. This helps to enhance smooth progress in the student’s learning of art appreciation and increases the students’ understanding of the learning content. |
Expected effects and results | * |
How to use |
This software: • can be viewed on PCs at school and at home; it can also be displayed with an projector for use in mass teaching • can be used as software for electronic blackboards • can be used as a medium for work exchange and joint classes between schools • should be useful in motivating classes in small schools and promoting exchange programs with overseas schools. |
Related teaching materials and information | • Self-produced teaching material (see the pictures) Ver. 1, 2, and 3 |
Useful for other students |