Affected by the overseas epidemic, many students are still hesitating whether to apply for the gap in one year or this year. However, no matter what the choice is, as far as most colleges are concerned, there is no suspension of enrollment or postponement of application date due to the epidemic. Therefore, in order to avoid the situation of inflexible growth of assessment difficulty due to the sharp increase in the number of applicants in the future, we should prepare as soon as possible and hold the option in our own hands! At present, the biggest difficulty for students is the change of learning methods. Online portfolio creation guidance has lasted for some time, but art education is a field of long-term planning. It is difficult to see the results of qualitative change in a short time, so many students and parents are still worried about the learning effect of online teaching. Therefore, today we will specifically explain how to maximize the use of online class resources from the perspective of students to ensure the learning progress of works and languages, and the Teaching Research Center will explain how to plan this year's teaching tasks in detail from the perspective of teaching!
Online portfolio creation guidance, how to maximize the use of online class resources
A complete set of application materials is divided into three parts: first, the most important collection of works, second, language, and finally, various documents. Each module requires us to allocate time reasonably for targeted supplementation. Next, we will start from the process of portfolio creation and provide online learning suggestions one by one:
Determine subject
It is difficult to start everything. A unique topic with research value is the key to the success of the portfolio project, and it is also the difficulty that students often have a headache. But at present, due to the restrictions on going out, the way we suggested to collect materials through field research and practice is not feasible for the time being, so how can we expand our thinking and find inspiration online?
It is impossible to find good ideas just by sitting in front of the computer and searching major design websites and looking through second-hand materials. We should return to the essence to broaden our knowledge reserves and cultivate a brain that is good at finding and thinking. In the early stage of creation, through the study of some humanistic and speculative courses, the accumulation of excellent works/text materials, and the exchange and discussion with teachers, the collision of inspiration
In order to achieve the learning task at this stage, the courses developed by the National Teaching and Research Center of Natural Light and led by tutors of six major departments and overseas professors can be divided into two types in form: recording and broadcasting. At present, we have accumulated more than 1000 courses covering all disciplines of six major departments, including software skills, art sharing, institutional analysis, humanistic thinking, etc.
The live broadcast courses led by the tutors of the six major departments are usually one-on-one/small class courses, which can follow up the students' learning status, review the difficult points and doubts at any time, push students to efficiently complete the accumulation of materials in the form of phased course tasks, and then expand through real-time discussions in class and off class to finally determine the theme.
Survey supplement
After the theme is established, it is necessary to carry out targeted Collection research Has. In the research stage, the difficulties and difficulties of students' learning are usually concentrated in two categories. The first is that they can't grasp the key points and can't go deep. The other is that they are too divergent and difficult to return to the theme.
In the past, we have repeatedly stressed the importance of research, which is also because research is the most unfamiliar part for students studying in China. Students often have no way to deepen the theme, broaden the depth, and extend the dimensions. Therefore, teachers' guidance and assistance are very needed at this stage.
In fact, the process of research is continuous accumulation, from which we can find problems that can be solved through professional dimensions, so as to form the background of creation and the framework of the entire creative process. During this period, we will continue to find our own ability weaknesses, which need to be constantly supplemented and upgraded.
In this phase of learning tasks, students must strengthen communication with professional teachers, so under the leadership of the Teaching and Research Center, we have also developed a lot of thinking expansion courses, including the recent International Education Resources Open Month, which is corresponding to the overseas education model, and carried out eight blocks of learning content, including overseas professors' cloud viewing exhibitions, double teacher gathering classes Recruiters' creative training camp, online workshop and other courses stimulate students' inspiration from different dimensions, broaden information access and enrich the project theme.
In fact, the course of portfolio project at this stage is also mainly in the form of one-on-one. Professional teachers need to guide students to conduct a lot of research and experiments, and gradually derive the project prototype in the process of repeated deliberation and deepening.
Secondly, the teaching and research center also encourages portfolio tutors to help students. Under the premise of ensuring learning energy and reasonable planning of learning plans, multiple topics are determined at the same time, and the early inspiration collection and research are carried out simultaneously, so as to enrich the early details as much as possible and ensure the completion of the project.
Creative Practice
The final stage of visual transformation and even some physical construction projects are also the most worried part at this stage. Many practical majors are trapped in the bottleneck of creation due to some limitations in materials and venues, including the current situation of the course form, and the inability of distance teaching to achieve hand to hand guidance.
Although there are objective obstacles in the online portfolio creation tutorial at this stage, it is not impossible to solve them. Recently, the Natural Light Teaching and Research Center has focused on teaching methods, curriculum forms, improving class experience and other dimensions in the phased teaching guidance of the portfolio instructors.
Through the integration of senior teachers' teaching experience and the use of teaching methods in different disciplines of six major departments, the unified output of teaching materials through research and development and discussion, and at the same time, the assessment of each teacher's teaching quality and communication ability, specific to more details to do standard training and overall improvement.
In the course arrangement of students, interdisciplinary skills, material selection, model building, and guidance of modular experimental programs are also added to guide students to use existing materials, have the courage to try, and obtain more direct and intuitive creative experience.
Through two-way teaching guidance for teachers and students, the Teaching and Research Center takes the quality of students' final works as the audit standard, and has a very strict internal screening system for teachers. It provides teaching assistance to students on a selective basis, promotes healthy competition among teacher teams, and maintains high-quality teaching services.
Short term portfolio project
The above are the three stages of conventional portfolio creation. In the face of this year's anxious situation and the shortening of the preparation time, we also need to prepare more energetic solutions. Among them, short-term courses that can guarantee the substantive output of the portfolio project and the curriculum results in different dimensions are the directions that students can focus on.
Taking into account the learning needs under the special situation this year, the Natural Light Teaching and Research Center has also adjusted its teaching plan, covering three major professional fields of clothing, interaction and pure art, and launched the "Double Teacher Gathering Class" in cooperation with professional courses.
This short-term course lasts for two months. It innovatively adopts the mode of double teachers cooperating with online teaching London Fashion Institute Led by popular department heads of three top universities, and assisted by senior art tutors with overseas background, the course results are controlled;
The form of the course is exquisite small class. The purpose of the two months is to directly produce high-quality portfolio projects. The dual teacher 1V1 follows up the course progress, and ensures that students can get the recommendation letter of famous teachers to the maximum extent, and complete the task of background improvement while obtaining high-quality portfolio projects.
Compared with traditional online academic projects, the "double teacher" classroom has achieved the highest allocation in three dimensions of teachers, content and results, and fundamentally controlled and guaranteed the teaching quality. Combining the convenient advantages of online teaching, the application success rate has doubled!
Finally, some suggestions are given to students who have half prepared but want to give up in the face of the epidemic or are still hesitating to start preparing applications: in the face of dreams and the future, if you don't know whether to stop temporarily or move forward firmly, you can try to make a time planning table according to your preparation progress, professional ability, and the deadline of the target university, Predict what you need to complete at each time node within the specified time, and what is temporarily impossible due to the influence of objective factors. Then refer to the suggestions listed above to see whether it can be solved. At the same time, clear your logical thinking, and which direction you can choose to give up or continue, Stop for a year and start again. Give up the past efforts to find the next unknown is worth it I believe that in the end you will find the right answer for yourself.
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