Instructions of the Techniques for Secondary Fine Arts Teacher Education in View of Readiness for Teaching : Through Teaching a College Course to Help Students Develop Practical Teaching Ability for Printing Expressions

In this study, the author had the opportunity to teach one of the practical courses offered by the college: "Painting V: Printmaking," designed for students who become secondary fine art teachers. In addition to teaching pedagogical, it is critical to help students improve their readiness for teaching, since such efforts can lead to the development of their practical teaching ability when teaching fine arts courses in the future. It is desirable, therefore, to not only help students develop technical skills necessary for teaching but also give them practical teaching ability by which they can develop a proactive approach in developing educational materials and instructional methods pertaining to the acquired skills. This study aims to explore how effectively one can provide practical teaching ability to help students achieve readiness for teaching, while helping them improve technical skills required for printing expressions as they teach in art classes. "Painting V: Printmaking" class used silk screens as fine arts teaching materials often employed in art classes at junior and senior high schools. In the beginning of the class, my students were appreciating printing art works, and then to deepen their understanding of characteristics of printing expressions, such as "plurality," "indirectness," and "fortuity." Photomechanical process was employed so that students were able to deal with the silk screens. In addition, students were able to develop technical skills by experiencing the whole process from designing the draft to plate-making, to printing, and to organizing screen structures. After the course, students had described free-response about "characteristics of printing expressions" and "instructions on printing expressions in junior and senior high school education." Analyzing the free-response surveys through text-mining, this study con-cluded that efforts at "Painting V: Printmaking" to help students improve their practical teaching ability as part of readiness for teaching had been proven effective