Talking with Kids about Art by Tom Anderson

This week in class we were assigned a reading by Tom Anderson called, Talking with Kids about Art. When I look back at my high school art experience I remember that getting students to talk about their art was a very difficult process. I believe that during adolescence children feel intimidated to talk about their work in front of peers. Anderson writes about art criticism and how painlessly incorporate it into the classroom.

Anderson uses "crit cards" to get students involved in the criticism. Crit cards are cards used by teachers to lead art criticism discussions. They can also be reproduced for student use. The questions on the crit cards are scaffolding. This allows for students to answer simple questions then build their thoughts to answer more complex questions. The four stages of cards are 1. Description 2. Interpretation and 3. Evaluation.