Arts-Integrated Access through OneWorld Classrooms
The following video presentation details a project designed to provide students with access to cultural learning and language development through an international art exchange. One World Classrooms is an organization that connects students worldwide through art. This organization facilitates artwork exchanges between students in different countries. By sharing artwork between classrooms, K-12 learners engage with the cultures and experiences of students all over the world. Through the sharing of artwork between two schools from different countries, this program aims to strengthen students’ sense of global citizenship.
Through this organization, students will have the opportunity to learn about other cultures in an novel and engaging way. Students from high-school Spanish Two and Spanish Three classes will benefit from authentic and meaningful interactions through artwork with their peers from other countries. Students will take a journey to another country through the artwork of students living in that country, in essence taking what Dennis J. Kirchen (2011) referred to as a virtual field trip. (p. 22) Student work in this project provides access to cultural learning otherwise unavailable from individual research and classroom learning. Further, this project connects to a national language standards by empowering students to “…reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied” ("The National Standards Collaborative Board," 2015).
To learn more about project objectives, artwork details, and cultural connects, view the following video presentation below.
Through this organization, students will have the opportunity to learn about other cultures in an novel and engaging way. Students from high-school Spanish Two and Spanish Three classes will benefit from authentic and meaningful interactions through artwork with their peers from other countries. Students will take a journey to another country through the artwork of students living in that country, in essence taking what Dennis J. Kirchen (2011) referred to as a virtual field trip. (p. 22) Student work in this project provides access to cultural learning otherwise unavailable from individual research and classroom learning. Further, this project connects to a national language standards by empowering students to “…reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied” ("The National Standards Collaborative Board," 2015).
To learn more about project objectives, artwork details, and cultural connects, view the following video presentation below.
Student Work Samples
The following are samples of student artwork and analytical reflections in Spanish. These samples are pieces of student-created artwork that represent the types of "teen spaces" students would like to have in their communities. The written reflections are drafts that will undergo revision prior to final submission in the early winter of 2017.