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By Glenn Rand, Professor in the graduate program at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. Richard D. Zakia, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
Description Finally, a book for you teachers! Because making great photographs does not always translate into an ability to teach effectively. Teaching
Photography will show you how to help your students expand their knowledge and abilities in the techniques, the aesthetics, and the way
photography fits into a greater world of knowledge, by providing ideas for inspiring conversations and critiques, as well as insightful
pointers regarding the learner's perspective in this new world. Teaching Photography approaches photographic education from a point of
view that stresses the how and why of the education and not the technique to be taught.
Audience
This book is aimed at professionals who wish to go into teaching; photo educators without education or training in education, graduate
students pursuing teaching as a profession, and established teachers looking for ideas that might lead to improvements in their academic
performance.
Contents Forward/by Mary Virginia Swanson
Introduction
Chapter 1 / ?Hey Teach?? Two histories of changing direction and mindset.
From Richard
D. Zakia
From Glenn Rand
Chapter 2 / Learning, Knowing, Owning
Learning?
Starting Learning?
Learning Objectives?
Knowing?
Owning?
Assisting Learning?
Expectations of passing through learning levels?
Learning is change?
Humor?
Who is responsible for learning?
Learning
photography?
Chapter 3 Asking Questions / Turning inquiry into knowledge
Who is asking what?
A method to ask questions?
Answering Questions?
Time?
How to answer?
Who answers?
Learning from Question?
The answering imperative?
Chapter 4 / Technique Education – Tools
Teaching
to a moving target?
Technology and Technique?
A philosophy of tools in photography?
Learning the tools?
Presentation technique?
Lecture?
Note Taking?
Demonstrations?
Preparing for demonstrations?
Laboratories?
Correcting technique?
Knowing and perfecting technique?
Chapter
5 / Creativity Education
Aesthetics, Perception and Meaning – Communicating a Unique Voice?
Technique versus Creativity?
Breathing in
Photography?
Different or Creative?
Using Art?
Learning Creativity from Nonlinearity?
Watch out they?re stopping creativity?
Creative
Success?
Chapter 6 / Understanding the nature of problems, solutions and assignments?
Structure of Problems...
Types of Problems...
Technique?
Puzzles....
Experimenting....
Artistic....
Paradoxes...
Solutions?
Creative Solutions?
Types of Solution Strategies?
Types
of Solutions?
Discovery?
Evolution / Revolution?
Innovation / Invention?
Resolution?
Tools for Solving Problems?
Logic?
Rote?
Reduction?
Chance?
Enlightenment?
Visual and Verbal Problem Solving?
Feedback?
Assignments?
Model approach for building an assignment?
Chapter
7 / Critique? Advancing learning with words
Using existing effort to expand learning?
Celebration of students efforts?
Evaluation points?
Going Negative?
Jumping off points?
Preparing the critique?
Setting the parameters?
Critique for Newer Learners?
Critiquing Without Words?
Participation?
Energy?
Methodology?
Place?
Procedure?
Expectations?
Chapter 8 Measuring Education – Tests, Grades and Evaluations
For the learner?
The Test?
Functions of tests?
What Tests Can and Cannot Tell Us?
What to Test?
Constructing test questions?
Nontraditional
testing?
Grading?
Success and failure?
Assigning Final Grades?
You gotta give grades?
Chapter 9 Evaluating Education?
Measuring variations?
Types of evaluation?
Student evaluations?
Administrative Teacher Evaluations?
Professional Development Plans?
Designing instruments
for evaluation?
Evaluation of the Program?
Program reviews?
An Assessment Rubric?
Accreditation?
Chapter 10 / The Environment?
Relationships?
Students as people?
Improvisation vs. rigidity?
Anxiety?
Caveats about teaching methods?
An Equality of Rights?
Perception and Proxemics?
Limits of educational spaces?
Vision?
Lighting
Sound?
Sonic Territory?
Complexity and Time?
The Psycho-Social Limits?
Social Limits?
Psychological Limits?
Changeability?
Personal?
Comfort?
Class Size?
Considerations for today?s education?
Going from solo to team?
The
First Class?
Expanding the Learning Environment – Workshops?
Online?
Chapter 11 / Planning and Changing?
The Philosophy of Why?
Change
Happens?
Planning for Change?
The Sciences of Natural Philosophy?
Surfing?
Categories of Planning?
Planning Steps?
Resource Inventory?
Putting the implementation puzzle together?
Planning and implementation models?
Curricular Design?
Changing Curriculum to the Digital
Age?
Chapter 12 / Support Activities?
Administration?
Politics?
Budget?
Professional development?
Mentoring?
Being a teacher-mentor?
Working with Industry?
Using textbooks?
Using technology to help learners?
Chapter 13 / The profession? So you want to teach?
The first
teaching position?
Finding a position?
Vita and Resume?
Portfolio?
References?
Positive Language?
Screening?
Interviewing?
Promotion,
Tenure and Retention –
Publish or Perish?
Being professional?
Service to the Academy?
Service to the community?
Chapter 14 / Teachers
on Teaching
Roy R. Behrens
Corinne Rose
John Fergus-Jean
Misun Hong
Sean Perry
Mariah Doren
George DeWolfe
David Page
Elaine O?Neil
Martin Springborg
Inga Belousa and Alnis Stakle
Ralph Masullo
Peter Glendinning
M. K. Foltz
Elizabeth Fergus-Jean
Appendix
Authors?
Biographies
Bibliography
Index of Quotes
Subject Index
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