Tonight I had a privilege to be the guest speaker at a class for future educators at Elmira College. It was a really great group of about 30 college students. My presentation included information about how teachers can use comics to teach and reinforce essential skills.
Activities included:
- Comics reading "Round Robin" style
- Comic Book Reader's theater
- Comic Strip conversions to teach students to write prose style dialogue using comics as inspiration
- Book Reports in comic style
- How to teach students to create their own original characters
- Using speech balloons and thought balloons
- and much more!
They're proud of their creations!
Here are some of the participants original characters. If tomorrow'seducators can draw this well, our children are in good hands!
1 comment:
That's some very cool stuff. Sounds like a neat class... I've been considering more and more lately that, when my boys are in school full-time, I'd like to become an art teacher. We'll see. Thanks for the cool post.
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