Date of Award
5-2012
Access Control
Open Access
Degree Name
Art Education (K-12), M.S.Ed.
Department
Art Education Department
Advisor
Dr. Michael Parks
Department Home page
http://arteducation.buffalostate.edu/
Abstract
This is a qualitative, action research study focused on how an individualized art curriculum developed by teacher and student, affects the student’s view on art, career path, and self. The study participants include nine students with the same Individual Learning Program (ILP) teacher, who chose to help them create their own curriculum in art, based on their own interests and/or relating art to their future college major. All nine students are juniors and seniors taking their third year of art. The study documents the educational process an art teacher and her ILP students took from beginning the formation of a formal written curriculum (individualized to each student), to the completion of their projects due at the end of the third quarter marking period. In general taking an ILP positively motivated all nine students by giving them ownership and an active role in their learning. The project revealed that taking an ILP tailored specifically to a future college major or future career, made students feel that art was more valuable and relevant to their lives than they had previously thought before taking the ILP. In conclusion, taking an Individualized Learning Program in art had a positive affect on student learning, and has increased the value that art has in their lives.
Recommended Citation
Burgett, Tina Marie, "A Qualitative Action Research Study in Teaching the High School Student by Using an Individualized Learning Program in Art, Created by Both the Teacher and Student" (2012). Art Education Projects. 25.
https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/arteducation_projects/25
