My goal is to build a student driven community of self-motivated learners. Students should be able to reflect and assess along the way by asking questions (to each other), giving constructive criticism and relying on a "studio community" instead of the teacher being the only "expert." Many simple questions that students already may know the answer to if they "stop and think" can be handled with the classroom catch phrase, "Ask three before me!" During "Critique Corner" another phrase such as "I need three!" can also be used to randomly volunteer students to give feedback via quality questioning to one another. Often times, these phrases are used during the process phase of learning and need not be used only for reflection/evaluation for final product phase.These approaches, although used in the art room/studio environment could be implemented in other subject areas.
