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Reciprocating Art
Shrewsbury Public Schools

Evidence of Effectiveness

Instructional objective: The student will be able to use the principles and elements of design to collaboratively create artwork with students in another country.

Evaluation: To evaluate the students' work, the teacher used peer review, artwork critique, and evaluation of the finished products.

Student improvement: The students were deeply involved in the process of critiquing, comparing, and contrasting the artwork. Their families also valued the students' participation in the project. Many American families framed their student's work from this art exchange project. In fact, some have framed the correspondence from this project as well as the artwork and have placed them next to each other. Of course, all of the vocabulary had to be translated. The Japanese writing next to the American writing is a piece of art onto itself. Many families thought so as well.

The idea of accepting cultural differences and knowing that one culture is not better than the next but can be learned from is important for the students to learn and accept. This was accomplished through discussion and student activities.

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