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!
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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