I follow two broad practices that shape each Art class:
1. Everyone Shows Mutual Respect
2. Everyone Does Their Individual Best
The philosophies that I try to build into each class:
- Students should find themselves in the curriculum & that curriculum should always connect itself to the real world.
- Within every unit, there are choices students can indentify with & have interest in.
- Student choice should relate to artistic & personal or social development.
- Students should strive to excel & become more productive.
- Projects should periodically make 2 or more students work together & seek common needs.
- Students should have required research with a theme & within parameteres that focus their ideas for what they are creating.
- Projects should create connections with things the students are familiar with & tie in prior knowledge into other subject matters.
- Each student can be powerful in a socially positive & a classroom appropriate way
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Personal
Choices
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Art Process |
Cultural Identity | Social Learning |
note: this was developed during my student teaching and written here in 2007.