A reflection on Dr. Blair's art class presentation

To start with, Dr. Blair began the lesson by introducing herself and her educational background. She started by introducing what we can do using very simple gadgets that we can find anywhere such as boxes, papers, and pieces of cloth and how easy it could be to set a small poetry exhibition. For that, she used boxes, a unifying piece of cloth, and paper or cardboard stands. In less then three minutes, a teacher can set a small exhibition of the students poems. Dr. Blair's main focus in her presentation is the fact that a teacher doesn't have to bother go to extremes when it comes to buying necessary items for his/her art class. Instead, the teacher can make use of simple things she can find and transform them into art. The most necessary part is that the teacher should always be prepared to what she wants to do and always equipped with glue. scissors, crayons, or anything she can carry in his/ her bag. Moreover, Dr. Blair highlighted a significant point: a teacher should never do all the work for the student. In art, the students should participate in simple chores like cutting gluing and even designing. Even if the teacher has an activity to prepare in class, students can integrate efforts to help him/her prepare for the activity. For instance. Dr Blair made us create a story with dialogues which we were supposed to perform in a form of a puppet show. Using a simple box, she showed us how to create a theater, and with a very simple nylon bag, she added a dramatic affect to the mini theater by using this bag as a stage curtain. Moreover in groups, we wrote dialogues, designed our puppets and stuck them on paper sticks. The activity was  interactive, fun, and educational. Dr. Blair was constantly assisting us. She modeled a great example of the teacher's role while students are preparing for the activity, which is guiding the students through each step of the activity to avoid confusion, controlling the activity by setting time limits to it, and offering her assistance with cutting, gluing and coloring. It's really unfortunate that Dr. Blair didn't have the time to show us other activities, but the source that Dr. Annous gave us for ideas, and the presentation that Dr. Blair gave showed us how fun and invigorating it is to add arts to a language class.