Classroom Environment
I teach Art 1 at Will Rogers College High School and Middle School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Student demographics in our district show 38% are multilingual learners, 14% are students with disabilities, and 11% gifted and talented, with race/ethnicity at 37% Hispanic/Latinx, 23% Black, 22% white, 11% multiracial, 5% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 2% Asian/Pacific Islander.5 Our own school has a much larger multilingual and Hispanic population and a smaller white population. While the district shows 79% being economically disadvantaged, our student population is slightly higher. Out of approximately 1700 students in our school, I am privileged to teach roughly 10% of them. I teach 6th-12th graders, 6th and 7th having separate classes and 8th through 12th in combined classes. This unit will be focused on the upper level students, in particular as a building block in an Art in Filmmaking class, though it can be used in all of my art classes as an individual Elements of Art unit for framing and composition.
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