Familiarisation
How might your own experiences, perceptions and feelings towards visual art impact upon your willingness and preparedness to provide visual arts learning experiences to your students?My feelings towards art could very much impact upon the learning experiences I prepare for my students (Dinham, 2014, p. 309). I understand this question is probably aimed at those who perhaps had a negative experience of art when they were at school. Luckily, mine was a very positive experience, and I have seen some wonderful lessons utilising fine arts during my professional experience placements, as shown below:
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| Images drawn by grade 5 students at a primary school in Launceston as part of their historical convict unit (Aug 2015). |
What might you do to ensure you provide sufficient opportunity to ensure your students fulfil their right to experience the visual arts as part of their education?
I believe if I am guided by the curriculum, and be sure to incorporate visual art on a regular basis within lesson sequences and group rotations (Brown, Macintyre, & Watkins, 2012, p. 125). This will make it easy to be prepared and willing to provide positive visual arts learning experiences for my students. I am also keen to learn from Professional Development workshops and be inspired and network with like-minded teachers in my school or community. For example, I was quite inspired by the teacher next door to our classroom in PE3 who always seemed to incorporate interesting visual art ideas into her many lessons, and she was willing to talk about her techniques and ideas.
Breaking the ‘creative’ ice
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| Rich's hand drawing (without looking at picture while drawing) |
Art class teaches kids to...
My primary school teaching, artistic cousin posted this on her facebook wall - very inspiring.
Lessons
References
Brown, R., Macintyre, P., & Watkins, M. (2012). Learning in and Through the Visual Arts. In C. Sinclair, N. Jeanneret, & J. O'Toole (Eds.), Education in the Arts (2nd ed., pp. 111-127). South Melbourne, VIC: Oxford.
Dinham, J. (2014). Delivering Authentic Arts Education (2nd ed.). Melbourne, VIC: Cengage.
I agree that using other teacher's knowledge and creative ideas is the way to go. Why try to do everything on your own? The teachers in a school should be a team and support each other. We all have our strengths and these should be shared. If the children see this with the teachers, then surely this ethic will filter down to the students and make for a better school all round.
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