TAB Reaction Prompts

Write a brief paragraph about your reactions to the TAB experience you went through in class.
Answer the following questions to the best of your ability...

1.) How did the TAB experience effect you as a learner?

2.) What are the strong points to a TAB based classroom/lesson set up? What are the down
sides?
3.) What are some educational theories of practices that are used/highlighted in the TAB
model?

The TAB experience that I had helped me learn new art skills in a stress-free way. I wasn’t
worried about being perfect or following guidelines. I was able to learn about an art medium
that interested me and was enjoyable for me to take part in. The strong points of a TAB
classroom are that it allows the student to spend class time working on art that they choose to
make and have creative freedom over. The TAB classroom has many resources available for the
students to use as they choose, including the internet and the teacher. Some of the downsides
of a TAB classroom may include that students can have so much freedom that they take too
long to decide what they are going to create and may run low on class time (this happened to
me to some extent). Another downside is that even though students have their teacher as a
resource, the teacher may not be able to answer every student question, since there are so
many possibilities for what student may create. Some educational theories used in TAB are
hands-on learning and student-driven project-based learning.