In the lessons teachers always try to teach the students certain skills such as solving a problem in mathematics, writing an essay in Lithuanian, knowing the dates of different battles in history or making different things in arts and crafts lessons.
Our teacher Vilija thought that during arts and crafts lessons students could do something meaningful, something that would help us to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the independence of Lithuania. The students were given a task to make a piece of work using different techniques.
The aims of the task:
- to unite students’ efforts and creative potential which would lead to a bigger motivation for keeping Lithuanian history alive;
- to develop students’ basic and technical skills, as well as civic, cultural and artistic skills;
- to encourage students to realize their abilities, a wish to learn about Lithuanian traditions, cultural herritage;
- let students’ choose the techniques themselves.
The requirements:
- Artworks have to be prepared using different technologies and techniques;
- Artworks have to be aesthetic and ready to be exhibited;
- There should be a white paper tag saying the title and the author attached to the artwork.
In order to complete the task correctly, students had to research into Lithuania’s culture, customs and traditions which helped the students to achieve their aim. This innovative way of learning helped the students not only to learn a lot about our old traditions but also to learn their own limits. The students were very inventive. They used different techniques (like drawing, knitting, embroidering, carving, sewing and many more) and most importantly their imagination was not limited. They created wonderful pieces of work thus showing that putting knowledge and creativity together they could step out of their comfort zone and made something new, beautiful and unexpected. The teacher’s role here was simple: to guide the students, help them with advice but not limit their imagination.
As an outcome, students’ art works were exhibited to commemorate 100 years of the independence of Lithuania.
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