May 2023
Greetings from OAEA!

We’ve been adjusting and growing as an organization, and have a number of new initiatives to share with our visual arts community. Currently, our website offers sample elementary units and secondary special focus courses of study. We have already developed resource packages on financial literacy, the Aga Khan Museum and Sikh Heritage Museum, and links to the Ministry curriculum and supporting documents. However, we recognize our wealth of expertise and experience among our members and would love to showcase some of the incredible work undertaken by Ontario educators.

To further support our membership, The Ontario Art Education Association is expanding its online collection of K-12 learning resources. We now want to provide OAEA members with more samples of exemplary instructional and assessment practices by inviting you to submit an amazing lesson or unit, based on a particular aspect of your Visual Arts or Media Arts program. Specifically, we seek exemplary lessons that have been tried and tested in an educational context by educators who are visual or media arts qualified or equivalent with classroom experience and are members of OAEA.

Although not an exhaustive list, here are some possible ideas:

●  Appropriation vs appreciation-honouring culture

●  Art making as a form of inquiry and research: process over product

●  Creating art about social justice issues that are important to the students

●  Art making is interdisciplinary

●  Integrating digital technologies with traditional art practices

●  Ideas drive artworks

●  Making meaningful art

●  Skill building-not one-off products

Here is the process:

Step 1: Please provide us with your resume and content area when you fill in this form with your intention to submit. Once you are approved as a writer, you can continue to step 2.

GOOGLE APPLICATION FORM

Step 2:

1. To facilitate this process, we will provide you with easy-to-use template to transpose your lesson(s) for submission.

   You will be forced to make a copy and we ask that you add your name to the file. Please check your work against

   the rubric that will be provided.

2. Once the template is completed, please provide an editable link to your lesson plan for review using this email.

   oaea4teachers@gmail.com

3. The OAEA Curriculum Committee will review and edit all submissions for clarity and consistency before publication

   on our members-only webpage. Curriculum writers will be paid $350 for each accepted lesson/unit.

Thank you for considering this request to share your expertise. We look forward to receiving your learning resource in the very near future. If you have any questions please email us at oaea4teachers@gmail.com.

All the best,
OAEA Curriculum Committee