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Blocks Paper ScissorsSchool Climate with Jen RankeyIn this episode we are joined by another TAB teacher: Jen Rankey
Jen Rankey (she, her, hers): Jen serves as the Director of Visual Art at Trinity Episcopal School in Charlotte, NC. This has given her the opportunity to teach kindergarten through 8th grade students while advocating for the preservation of the arts within independent schools over the past 20 years. Although choice and student voice has always been a part of her practice, Jen officially embraced TAB seven years ago with a curriculum based upon the pillars of Teacher for Artistic Behaviors: What do artists d...2024-12-0940 minBlocks Paper ScissorsTalking about Trauma with Special Guest Stacey ParrishIn this episode we discuss trauma and how it may appear in our studio classrooms. We are joined by Stacey Parrish. Stacey teaces middle school in Florida.
2024-10-1832 minBlocks Paper ScissorsLet's Go - Starting the year in a TAB classroom with Jean BarnettHello, and welcome to the Blocks Paper Scissors Podcast #30.
Today we have a special guest with us. Jean Barnett is an amazing High School TAB teacher in Central Texas. She has been teaching for 17 years, at the same school, with more than 12 of those years as a TAB teacher. She currently is teaching Art 1, Art 3, and runs her school’s ceramics program. When Jean is not teaching her students how to think and behave like artists, she is teaching other art teachers all about TAB as the secondary cohort leader at the TAB Institute."
Here is th...2024-09-1235 minBlocks Paper ScissorsBPS#29 Disruption in the umweltHello fellow TAB teachers! We got our act together again to catch up and discuss what's happening in our TAB studios. We also chat about upcoming professional development opportunities that Clyde and I will be participating in later this year. Also, Don't be afraid to send us an email if you have a question or topic you would like us to discuss on an upcoming show.
Show notes.
TAB Summer Institute at MassArt, Boston
TABstock at Blueberry Fields
School Art...2024-03-2750 min
TAB StorytellersS2E11: Meet Clyde Gaw and Clark FralickIn this episode of TAB Storytellers, Jen and Abi are joined by Clyde Gaw and Clark Fralick, TAB art educators. Among the topics discussed are how Clyde and Clark found TAB, technology, advocacy, authentic making, and the Secret Art of Boys as well as several other topics.
For more information about TAB, please visit the TAB website: www.teachingfor artisticbehavior.org. Also, you are invited to join us on Mighty Networks (https://teaching-for-artistic-behavior.mn.com/), an online platform dedicated to everything TAB!
For more information about The Secret Art of Boys: https://clydegaw.blogspot.com/2010/07...2024-03-161h 07Blocks Paper ScissorsBPS#28 Autumn BricolagePodcast Redux! Sorry folks, this episode was supposed to drop last week but I made a huge error while editing. My bad. Anyway, we got back together to talk about a few things that have happened since our last podcast and we discussed WOW, Austins Butterfly, and other TAB missteps.
The Tornado Drawing
Images from Clydes Artshow
Article Clyde talked about.
2023-11-301h 06Blocks Paper ScissorsBPS #27 Catching upIn this episode Clyde and I try to catch up with each other from TAB Institute to the new year and beyond. We are not in a studio and therefore the sound quality will vary.
2023-10-0147 minBlocks Paper ScissorsThe Genesis of TAB: A live recording Kathy Douglas from TABstock2023During this years TABstock, we were blessed to have Kathy Douglas in attendance. I grabbed the opportunity to record, in her words, the genesis of TAB. It is a wonderful story told by one of the founders of TAB: Kathy Douglas.
2023-07-0748 minBlocks Paper ScissorsWe’re BaaaaaaackHa! You thought we were done? Sorry! We have been super-duper busy and I had to hold Mr. Gaw hostage in order to get this podcast recorded. Just Kidding. In this episode Clyde and I are catching up with several random thoughts and I dead in this unscripted podcast.
2022-11-0458 minBlocks Paper ScissorsThe Healing Power of Art
In this episode, Clyde and Clark talk about the healing power of art. Why do kids seek out the art room when they are anxious? Why do certain behaviors disappear when children have the opportunity to work with their minds and their hands?
Child Art Therapy by Judith Aron Rubin
The Good Enough Studio by Nona Orbach
Through the Narrow Window:
2022 TAB Summer Institute
Special Thanks to The Easthills for allowing us to use their awesome music.
2022-02-2332 minBlocks Paper ScissorsQualityWE are finally back in the studio...sort of. In this episode of Blocks Paper Scissors, Clyde and I try to get back into the groove talking about quality. Teacher directed vs. student directed quality and what is really happening in the minds of our young artists. Special thanks to the Easthils for allowing me to use their awesome music.
2021-07-0533 minBlocks Paper ScissorsBlocks Paper Scissors Live. December 29, 2020Welcome to our second live conversation event.
2020-12-301h 04Blocks Paper ScissorsSpecial Live Event, December 17th, 2020In this episode, Clyde and I go live in the first virtual question and answer session. We were joined by several TAB teachers from around the world. This was an amazing conversation among incredible art teachers.
2020-12-191h 31Blocks Paper ScissorsAm I TAB enough?As we continue to work remotely, we are trying to bring you interesting content related to Teaching for Artistic Behavior. Please excuse some of the audio. Zoom sometimes does not play well.
In this episode, Clyde and I are joined by Roni Rohr to talk about the idea of "Am I TAB enough? It's a question many of us ask ourselves when beginning this journey.
Roni Rohr (she, her, hers) teaches at El Dorado Community School K-8 in Santa Fe, NM. She serves as the Santa Fe Public Schools Visual Arts Mentor and is...2020-06-1839 minBlocks Paper ScissorsDEI+J (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice) in the TAB Studio with Julie TooleToday Clyde and I welcome a very special guest: Julie Toole. During our conversation, we look at what is white privilege and how we can practice DEI+J in the TAB studio,
Julie has been a teacher for 30 years, 20+ in Chicago Public schools and is currently teaching art at a private progressive school, pre-k-8th grade. She has been a TAB teacher and TAB mentor for the last 10 years and co-lead at the elementary level group at the TAB Summer Institute at MassArt and part of the Executive Board for TAB, INC. As a transracially ado...2020-04-2043 minBlocks Paper ScissorsTeaching for Artistic Behavior during the COVID19 Pandemic.Hello everyone!! In this podcast, Clyde and I talk about remote teaching and trying to keep the spirit of Teaching for Artistic Behavior. We felt it was necessary to make a podcast during this time. We couldn't meet in the regular studio, so we recorded this using Zoom. The sound isn't perfect. Enjoy everyone. Stay Safe.
Software Mentioned in this episode
Flip Grid
Quicktime
Loom
Talkr
2020-04-0130 minBlocks Paper ScissorsSupporting a Trauma Informed Curriculum through TABHello listeners, we are back with another episode of the Blocks, Paper Scissors Podcast. In this episode, Clyde and I discuss Trauma-informed education through the lens of a TAB studio. This is a very current and deep subject that we dip our toes into.
Other things mentioned in this episode.
Yoyoi Kusama - Read this great article about her here. If you have Hulu you can watch an awesome documentary about her life titled KUSAMA: Infinity
Judith Scott
The Teaching for Artistic Behavior Summer Institute
Tra...2020-02-1136 minBlocks Paper ScissorsOrganic Collaboration
In this episode, Clyde and I get back to what we love: talking about our TAB studios. More specifically the phenomenon called organic collaboration and the observations we make. What happens when we work together for a common cause? What are we learning? Why is it a good idea to promote collaboration in your classroom?
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky
Jean Piaget
David Ausubel
Special thank you fo...2019-11-2729 minBlocks Paper ScissorsTAB Institute 2019
In this episode, Clyde and I have a fun little conversation about our experience at TAB institute in Boston. I thought it would be nice to sit down and decompress all that happened over the week. We got to meet some pretty amazing educators from all over the world. I would like to apologize if the sound isn't that great. My MacBook has been acting up, restarting at random times, so I recorded this on my iPad. When I listened to the recording it had a nasty rumble that I tried to process out. Also, I want...2019-07-2937 minBlocks Paper ScissorsConditions of Creativity: TimeIn this podcast, Clyde and I discuss the benefits of time in the TAB classroom. What happens when kids have time to play, explore and discover new ideas?
Special Thank you to the Easthills for their generosity in allowing me to use some of their awesome music. Also Katie McDaniel for the amazing intro. Time by Pink Floyd
2019-06-2831 minBlocks Paper ScissorsConditions for Creativity - PlayIn this episode, Clyde and I sit down and have a conversation about the role play has in a TAB classroom.
See George Szekely in action at CMA George Szekely
Theresa Amibile Growing Up Creative: Nurturing a Lifetime of Creativity
National Institute for Play
2019-02-1048 minBlocks Paper ScissorsConditions for Creativity - AutonomyIn this episode Clark and Clyde catch up on what's been happening (A Lot). Making stuff out of cardboard and talking about creativity. We start diving into how to set up the conditions of creativity: Autonomy, Collaboration, Playfulness, Time, Environment, Risk-taking.
Here is the file we mentioned in the show.
2018-12-0145 minBlocks Paper ScissorsA conversation with Katherine DouglasIn this episode, Clyde takes the lead in a conversation with our good friend and colleague Katherine Douglas. Katherine Douglas is an American education pioneer. She has a long and illustrious career in art education. She is the Co-author of Engaging Learners Through Artmaking, she and Diane Jaquith are the principle Founders of the Teaching for Artistic Behavior approach to art education and the Teaching for Artistic Behavior Network. Katherine has researched, written and presented on TAB practice and philosophy for over four decades.
Katherine shares her wonderful story about the genesis of Teaching for A...2018-08-2845 minBlocks Paper ScissorsTen Things Every New TAB Teacher needs to do (or not do) Part 2In this podcast CLyde and I continue our conversation regarding things new teachers to Teaching for Artistic Behavior stress over.
Clyde and I discuss the changes teachers and students experience in the school setting: including the change to TAB, the effects of divorce, trauma, poverty plus the demands of testing.
Why should we penalize a student for reasons beyond our control?
*Special Thank You to Katie McDaniel for helping out with our podcast. Your voice is amazing!
2018-04-1038 minBlocks Paper ScissorsTen Things Every New TAB Teacher needs to do (or not do) Part 1
Excuse us for the late nature of this podcast. There were several things that prevented us from getting together to have our biweekly discussion. There was the Spring Fine Arts Festival that was another smash hit. Then we had Spring Break. Who wants to work over Spring Break. and finally, my incessant bout of bronchitis. You will notice that my voice is rather soft during this podcast. I apologize in advance. Plus, I have been experimenting in the fashion of TAB with the equipment for this podcast. I saved enough pennies to purchase a mixer and two m...2018-03-3143 minBlocks Paper ScissorsThe Secret Art of Boys/GirlsIn this episode we have a special guest ( school counselor Tonya Wood,) to help Clyde and i understand the secret art of boys and girls. We discuss and try to answer these questions: What should we do when we see children using fantasy violence in their art? Does it mean they are having violent thoughts? Whats happening developmentally at their age level? What impact, if any do violent video games play? or for that matter, digital devices in general?
Michael Thompson
Glow Kids
Killing Monsters
Radical Technologies
2018-02-1149 minBlocks Paper ScissorsThe Unmotivated Student
In this episode Clyde and I return from a long break where I was sick with the Flu and Pnumonia. We discuss the unmotivated student and how we deal with them in class. Who are they? What can we do to help them?
Build relationships through talking with students
Give students choice
Give students space and time
Look outside the typical art room materials
TAB Midwest Teacher Networking Workshop
Who: Any Midwest Art Teacher, K-12
What: Teaching for Artistic Behaviors (TAB) and
Choice Based A...2018-01-2848 minBlocks Paper ScissorsTAB Stories: Incredible Acts of CreativityIn this episode, Clyde and I talk about some of the incredible acts of creativity we've seen in our classroom. These acts include a 6ft dragon that was displayed at the Arnheim Gallery at MassArt, A 16ft Eifle Tower made from plastic soda straws, a cardboard Dalek with lights and sound as well as an interactive war drawing.
LuckyTown
PAPER SMACHE!!
2017-12-2048 minBlocks Paper ScissorsCreativity
In this podcast, Clyde and I catch up on what happened over Thanksgiving break before we dive headfirst to discuss creativity. We talk about what it is and where it is, as well as if schools are somewhat responsible for the decline of creative thinking. We get off track a little and get back on. All in all not a bad conversation.
Mentioned in this Podcast
Central Indiana Land Trust
Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Diane Jaquith: When is Creativity?
Nan Hat...2017-12-0240 minBlocks Paper ScissorsA Conversation with Diane JaquithIn this podcast, we are joined via the telephone with TAB co-founder Diane Jaquith. Diane Jaquith, retired after 25 years from K-12 art education, is a co-founder of Teaching for Artistic Behavior and directs the TAB Summer Teacher Institute. She is the co-author of Engaging Learners Through Artmaking and co-editor of The Learner-Directed Classroom. Diane is an adjunct faculty member at Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston. We discuss the origins of Teaching for Artistic Behavior and how it has evolved since its inception in 2002. Diane also shares information about the Summer TAB Institue in Boston and two books s...2017-11-1834 minBlocks Paper ScissorsConstructivism in a TAB classroomIn this episode, we discuss constructivism and how it relates to a TAB artroom. As mentioned in the podcast. Here are the twelve indicators (TAB) adapted from In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin G. Brooks
1.Choice based art teachers encourage and accept student autonomy and initiative.
2.Because of the very nature of visual arts education, choice based art teachers use primary sources and raw, physical, manipulative interactive materials to inspire and catalyze learners.
3.Choice based art teachers encourage students to generate, utilize and create...2017-11-0935 minBlocks Paper ScissorsCurriculum and InstructionCurriculum and instruction is the heart and soul of TAB pedagogy. In this podcast the two veteran art teachers have a wide ranging discussion about their teaching practice. They discuss the importance of weaving art education content into emergent creative experience while name dropping several artists and educators. Clark and Clyde also discuss lesson demonstration transitions to studio activities, interacting with learners and how they use open ended questions to scaffold children's art experience.
2017-10-3042 minBlocks Paper ScissorsRoad TripIt this episode of the Blocks Paper Scissors Podcast, Clark and Clyde are joined by Katie Bonilla as they drive to Ball State University to listen to a roundtable discussion on TAB and Choice Art ed. Katie is an Elementary Art teacher from Avon, Indiana. She is a TAB teacher with some very interesting stories. In addition to some random silliness, we also talk about tacos and answer questions from listeners. Special thanks to bensound.com for providing the music in this podcast.
2017-10-2929 minBlocks Paper ScissorsAssessmentIn our third episode, Clark and Clyde share their thoughts on assessment in an emergent art education curriculum and the problem of optimizing learning experience in cognitively diverse TAB classrooms.Special thanks to bensound.com for providing the music in this podcast.
2017-10-2934 minBlocks Paper ScissorsRoom ArrangementIn our second episode, Clark and Clyde talk about a critical aspect of TAB pedagogy: room design. The physical learning environment and it's connection to creative learning experience and developing artistic behaviors are examined in this week's podcast. Check the photo's below for examples of learning centers, pop-up centers and learning provocations. Special thanks to bensound.com for providing the music in this podcast.
2017-10-2932 minBlocks Paper ScissorsIn the Beginning....In this episode Clyde and I discuss how we got started in Teaching for Artistic Behavior and other various rants and side discussions. Special thanks to bensound.com for providing the music in this podcast.
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