VTS video analysis

Name:_Krista Voelker________
Total:________/24 points

Answer the following quesBons while watching the video…

1.) How did she get started with the activity? (3points)

Ok boys are girls this is our brand new painting for our art talk. We are going to use our
sense of sight. There’s lots of details so I want you to use your thinking and use your
eyes. We’ll give it 30 seconds. Now remember when we are noticing it is really quiet
so that we can use our sense of sight not our sense of hearing.

2.) What kinds of questions did she ask, how did she follow up? (3 points)

“What do you notice?”

“What do you see that makes you say that?”
“What do you see that makes you think that?
“What else can you find?”

3.) What kinds of thinking strategies were practiced by the students? (3 points)

The teacher and the students physically point to the thing they are talking about. The
teacher paraphrases what the student said. The teacher said the following strategies
add to their already developed skills of talking- they can talk. She said they are
developing:
Problem solving
Predicting
Wondering
Communication skills like turn taking- which they can use in all areas of life
Social skills
Building on each other ideas of what they notice and enjoy about the piece they are
examining.

Now process what you just saw and discuss the following quesBons at your table…

4.) How could we connect this activity to the elements and principles? (5 points)

I would have a poster that displays the elements of art with examples and a chart that
displays the principles of art with examples. I would review the elements and principles
of art with the students.
I would then say, “Let’s use our eyes to look very carefully at this piece of art again. We
will keep our hands and bodies quiet, and just use our eyes. We will quietly look at this
piece of art for 30 seconds. What elements and principles are you noticing in this piece
of art?” Students would share and point at what they notice.

5.) What kinds of follow up or next step activities could we do after something like
this? (5 points)

As students are pointing and talking about the element or principle in the piece of art
that they are noticing, I would ask, “what makes you think that?” And “What makes you
say that?” I would also ask, “What else can you find?”

I could ask students if they remember other pieces of art that we studied that had similar
elements and principles of art. Having those other pieces of art hung up in the
classroom would be helpful to allow students to remember what they have learned in
previous art talks.

6.) Elementary Ed. how could this be used cross circularly? Art Ed. how could
this transfer into a project? (5 points)

The VTS analysis could be used in many other contexts in the classroom. One example
would be in a science unit where students are observing something living. If students
are observing the life cycle of caterpillar- they are making qualitative and quantitative
observations. The teacher can ask questions like:
What do you notice?
What makes you say/think that?
What else can you find?