http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/learning-art-for-math-s-sake-1.1027902?page=1
From the article by Minjae Park, Staff Writer, the STEAM prpgram—
"is the product of a partnership between the Paterson school district and William Paterson University that aims to promote the traditional elements of STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – with the addition of art: STEAM. In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools".....
....."The partnership between the university and the Paterson school district is funded through a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, based in Morristown. In April the foundation approved $130,000 for the university to continue and expand its STEAM program next year, adding to the $200,000 from the previous two years."
For the complete article see this LINK
William Paterson University is featuring photos from the STEAM program at its Facebook page at http://on.fb.me/1lXOixB
Above: Artworks created in GOPA Art Teacher Darryl Jones' class suing pastels and grids
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class — part art, part math — is the product of a partnership between
the Paterson school district and William Paterson University that aims
to promote the traditional elements of STEM – science, technology,
engineering and math – with the addition of art: STEAM.
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/learning-art-for-math-s-sake-1.1027902?page=1#sthash.srh7cqKM.dpuf
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/learning-art-for-math-s-sake-1.1027902?page=1#sthash.srh7cqKM.dpuf
is
the product of a partnership between the Paterson school district and
William Paterson University that aims to promote the traditional
elements of STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – with the
addition of art: STEAM.
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/learning-art-for-math-s-sake-1.1027902?page=1#sthash.srh7cqKM.dpuf
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/learning-art-for-math-s-sake-1.1027902?page=1#sthash.srh7cqKM.dpuf
is
the product of a partnership between the Paterson school district and
William Paterson University that aims to promote the traditional
elements of STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – with the
addition of art: STEAM.
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/learning-art-for-math-s-sake-1.1027902?page=1#sthash.srh7cqKM.dpuf
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/learning-art-for-math-s-sake-1.1027902?page=1#sthash.srh7cqKM.dpuf
In a college-high school cooperation, science and tech meets art
The Record
It was a geometry lesson on ratios, but there was Tevaughn Grant,
his fingers smeared in pink from rubbing soft chalk pastels onto his
drawing of a rose.
"I drew up a grid, then I drew a picture, then I erased the lines and I started the pastel," said the 11th-grader at Eastside High School in Paterson, explaining a technique that employs math as well as art.
Beside him, Marque Champion, a 12th-grader, had taken an image of a face and drawn a grid of 36 one-inch squares on it – nine across and four down. On a larger canvas, he drew a similar grid, but with each square measuring 2 inches. Then he copied the original, box by box, to create a face that was quadruple the size.
"Instead of drawing what you see, it helps you focus on the boxes," he said, showing how each box helped keep the drawing in proportion.
The class — part art, part math — is the product of a partnership between the Paterson school district and William Paterson University that aims to promote the traditional elements of STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – with the addition of art: STEAM.
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
"Creativity is key, and art tends to bring the creativity," said Dina Scacchetti, a William Paterson science professor often at Eastside High.
William Paterson art professor Triada Samaras, the other professor-in-residence at Eastside High, said art teaches students something other subjects don't.
"We say, 'Take risks and fail,' " she said. "Failure is expected in art and even encouraged, because through failures you eventually succeed, and this kind of thinking is very useful" for science- and math-oriented studies.
At Eastside High's School of Government and Public Administration, students in the science-oriented art classes also have calculated the volume of ceramic sculptures they craft, then measured how much water the sculptures actually hold; and they had their faces scanned at William Paterson to make three-dimensional Styrofoam cutouts, an experience that allowed them to experiment with complex software.
The infusion of art into math and science has seen some positive early signs in Paterson, Scacchetti said, with bilingual second-grade students who had studied in the curriculum outperforming their monolingual peers in math scores.
By boosting core subjects, art — often seen as more expendable than the subjects for which students are tested — is placed on a firmer footing in schools.
"It makes a powerful argument for the case that art doesn't take away from time in science and math," said Candace Burns, dean of William Paterson's College of Education.
The partnership between the university and the Paterson school district is funded through a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, based in Morristown. In April the foundation approved $130,000 for the university to continue and expand its STEAM program next year, adding to the $200,000 from the previous two years.
In addition to allowing professors-in-residence, the grant helps buy supplies and funds field trips to museums, said Scacchetti, the university's coordinator for the grant.
In a class at Eastside High's School of Information Technology, Marilyn Simon, an art teacher, demonstrated tessellation, in which copies of a shape are fitted together like a mosaic to cover a plane, with no overlaps or gaps.
"It was a regular square first, and then we cut it and we put it on the bottom," said Angeline Francois, an 11th-grader, as she finished drawing a sequence of sharp edges and winding curves. "And me, being complicated — I made this."
On their shapes, students transposed paintings of fish, butterflies, ducks — whatever the patterns could conceivably depict.
"Your job is to find something in this," Simon told students. "Keep turning it to see if you see something in it."
She compared the process to divining shapes from clouds.
Francois, a Picasso fan, said she mainly enjoyed the art but didn't mind the small math lesson.
"I drew up a grid, then I drew a picture, then I erased the lines and I started the pastel," said the 11th-grader at Eastside High School in Paterson, explaining a technique that employs math as well as art.
Beside him, Marque Champion, a 12th-grader, had taken an image of a face and drawn a grid of 36 one-inch squares on it – nine across and four down. On a larger canvas, he drew a similar grid, but with each square measuring 2 inches. Then he copied the original, box by box, to create a face that was quadruple the size.
"Instead of drawing what you see, it helps you focus on the boxes," he said, showing how each box helped keep the drawing in proportion.
The class — part art, part math — is the product of a partnership between the Paterson school district and William Paterson University that aims to promote the traditional elements of STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – with the addition of art: STEAM.
In the past two years, Schools 2 and 7 and Eastside High School have adopted science-and-art classes designed by their teachers and by William Paterson professors who spend a few days each week working at the schools.
"Creativity is key, and art tends to bring the creativity," said Dina Scacchetti, a William Paterson science professor often at Eastside High.
William Paterson art professor Triada Samaras, the other professor-in-residence at Eastside High, said art teaches students something other subjects don't.
"We say, 'Take risks and fail,' " she said. "Failure is expected in art and even encouraged, because through failures you eventually succeed, and this kind of thinking is very useful" for science- and math-oriented studies.
At Eastside High's School of Government and Public Administration, students in the science-oriented art classes also have calculated the volume of ceramic sculptures they craft, then measured how much water the sculptures actually hold; and they had their faces scanned at William Paterson to make three-dimensional Styrofoam cutouts, an experience that allowed them to experiment with complex software.
The infusion of art into math and science has seen some positive early signs in Paterson, Scacchetti said, with bilingual second-grade students who had studied in the curriculum outperforming their monolingual peers in math scores.
By boosting core subjects, art — often seen as more expendable than the subjects for which students are tested — is placed on a firmer footing in schools.
"It makes a powerful argument for the case that art doesn't take away from time in science and math," said Candace Burns, dean of William Paterson's College of Education.
The partnership between the university and the Paterson school district is funded through a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, based in Morristown. In April the foundation approved $130,000 for the university to continue and expand its STEAM program next year, adding to the $200,000 from the previous two years.
In addition to allowing professors-in-residence, the grant helps buy supplies and funds field trips to museums, said Scacchetti, the university's coordinator for the grant.
In a class at Eastside High's School of Information Technology, Marilyn Simon, an art teacher, demonstrated tessellation, in which copies of a shape are fitted together like a mosaic to cover a plane, with no overlaps or gaps.
"It was a regular square first, and then we cut it and we put it on the bottom," said Angeline Francois, an 11th-grader, as she finished drawing a sequence of sharp edges and winding curves. "And me, being complicated — I made this."
On their shapes, students transposed paintings of fish, butterflies, ducks — whatever the patterns could conceivably depict.
"Your job is to find something in this," Simon told students. "Keep turning it to see if you see something in it."
She compared the process to divining shapes from clouds.
Francois, a Picasso fan, said she mainly enjoyed the art but didn't mind the small math lesson.
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