Date of Award

2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Brion, Katherine

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a rollercoaster for all of us, especially teachers and students. For art education specifically, remote learning created challenges related to the availability of the art supplies essential to art-based lessons. My thesis focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on art education, as well as best practices for teaching art in the classroom and online. I wanted to consider this experience from the perspective of a high school art teacher by researching and designing an engaging lesson plan for remote learning. I also interviewed two talented and dedicated art teachers, who told me about teaching at the height of the pandemic. Prior to creating a mock remote lesson plan, I first created an in-person lesson plan to consider how my priorities would change in the context of remote learning. My mock lesson plan for self-portraits follows the Studio Habits of Mind (SHoM) framework used by many art teachers. In my remote version of this lesson plan, I focused on building a connection between myself and the students. The findings of my thesis emphasize the importance of practicing empathy. Teachers learned how to be more empathetic toward their students' needs even after students returned to in-person classes.

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