Draw This in Your Style Challenges are all the rage right now. My own children can not get enough of them and for young artists they are all the rage. Artists share one of their draws (in the their style) and then challenge others to take the drawing they drew and draw it in their drawing style.
Watching my own children take part in these has been absolutely wonderful and left me in awww seeing what they create. It has made me giddy to see them be inspired by other’s ideas and their style. Most of all my heart sings seeing this community of creators truly embracing this idea but the real incredibleness is seeing this mind set they have. This mindset that an idea/a creation, can inspire us and we can each re-create that same idea in our own style and it is still beautiful, amazing and holds value no matter what the technique or style used to re-create it.
This got me thinking.
What if we joined in on all this fun too!
What if teachers…yes us!! What if we embraced our teaching style, grabbed hold of it, hugged it and valued the heck out of the style we teach in. What if we shared a fun idea, a singular idea, that any of us could add to any lesson, any subject, any part of our day, any classroom, that would enhance each others teaching, improve learning and challenged each other to flex our teaching skills.
Embrace, take in, soak up, be inspired and learn the idea. Apply it to your own classrooms in your style and share what it looked like in your style/in your classroom for each other to see. Share how the idea you used in your classroom and in your style with each other.
Then watch all the incredible awesomeness that we all have to share and inspire others with when we embrace the power of our teaching skills and value the style we teach in!!
I’ll start…
…and seriously I am ridiculously excited to see where this goes because draw this in your style is awesome but TEACH THIS IN YOUR STYLE is going to be incredible!! Teachers are absolutely incredible creators who bring out amazing things in kids and I can’t wait to see what they start bringing out in each other too!!!
My #TeachInYourStyle Challenge runs until November 30th!! I can’t wait to see what it it inspires. After you use an Idea Flood in a lesson, activity, your classroom snap a picture of it and share it out on twitter #TeachInYourStyle
