WWW Jewelry 2009

Jewelry 2009 was a Joy to work with. As in my own field (libraries), it is refreshing to deal routinely with kids who are truly engaged with what they’re doing. Back when I was a classroom teacher, I found myself too often feeling like a used car salesman trying to peddle an Edsel to kids who didn’t even need a car…

Jewelry, and all of the courses offered at ISB by Jerry Hochberg and Khun Jong, are truly different. We have been talking recently in both a SUNY grad course, and at the leadership level in HS, about focussing on increased “Understanding” rather than the disengaged amassing of course “content” in order to maintain a certain GPA. By understanding, we refer, among other things, to the ability to;

• apply prior knowledge to a current situation
• develop knowledge and skills in a specific content area
• transfer skills from one specific subject area to another
• interpret general learnings in solving a specific problem
• demonstrate learning by accessing prior knowledge, applying new skills and synthesizing something new

The students who chose Jewelry  this year may have had another option on their selection list, but Jewelry was in no way a fallback option. It was a true choice based on real interest, and during the course of the week, I saw that interest morphing in many cases into a real passion for what they were doing.

The results (cast, but not yet “finished” (polishes, set and presented) speak for themselves.

For full-sized images of these and all the cast pieces, go to the Flickr Feed for this course (click on any of the thumbnails in the set at the right)

Enjoy! I certainly did.

Robert J. Rubis, Asst Advisor, WWW Jewelry 2009

~ by wwwjewelry on March 4, 2009. Tagged: cast pieces, jewelry, lost-wax castings, WWW 2009