This summer, my students have engaged in mid-project critiques. My students’ role during the critique is to make positive comments about the effective use of design elements in their peers’ work.
During one of these critiques, we reviewed the work of a student who clearly struggles in school and with art. The other students gave him feedback that was positive and genuine. As they spoke, I could see a look of pride cross his face.
Later, he told me that the work he made in my class was the best he’d ever done, but that he could see it wasn’t as good as some of the other students’ work. I reminded him of all of the positive comments he had received during the critique, and he just sat there and smiled shyly to himself. That critique had definitely meant a lot to him.
I don’t know this student very well, but my guess is that he is not a child who frequently receives praise for his work. The Circle Round the Square program has given him an opportunity to shine – an opportunity that he may never have had without this program.
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