ART ED COLLAB DATA COLLECTION: VISUAL JOURNALING

 

VISUAL JOURNAL PROMPTS 

• What is something that happened in the last month that was really successful? Use images of student work in a collage if that fits your response; otherwise, use collage elements along with text to tell a story. 

• Draw an object using pencil/pen/pastel/other materials that can serve as representative of a struggle you are dealing with lately. Use text to tell us what that object represents. 

• Draw a diagram of your classroom - or of your teaching space if you are online. Label the areas and provide a narrative that explains special zones or places that have positive or negative associations for you or your students (or both).

• Illustrate a lesson that you are currently planning, provide some images that you may use to inspire students. Talk about what your goals for this project are. 

• Create a pop-up in your journal. This can be something as simple as a small accordion hinge that has a word or image pasted to it, or you can search online for a complicated approach. Think about something new you have learned, or an aha! moment you’ve encountered recently. 

•  How do you de-stress from your job? draw/paint/collage or add a photograph of something that lends you a moment of work/life balance. Use text as a decorative element and sell us on your approach!

• Who in your life has provided you joy in your teaching journey? Create a portrait (media your choice) of this individual and give us a little bio and what they are doing to make your life better. 

•  Choose 3 images from your phone’s camera roll. Print these out and attach them in your book, and tell us what they represent and how they relate to your teaching or your work/life balance.

• Using a monochromatic color scheme, dedicate a double page spread to a teacher that has been influential to your career choice. This could be either a positive or a negative person in your life! Both positive and negative interactions make us the teacher that we are.

•  Using cut paper, create a scene of something amazing that happened in your classroom. This could be something that is as small as overhearing a positive interaction between students, or a giant fiasco that you’re happy you survived.