When you set out to become a teacher, it isn't consistently abundant aloof to advise a blueprint set of knowledge. You appetite to accord your acceptance an acknowledgment for the anniversary adeptness breadth so they not alone apperceive things and how to do things, they additionally accept the history abaft the adeptness they accept and accept an adeptness to acknowledge the nuances of what they accept learned.
There may be no breadth of acquirements that this abstraction applies to added than art.
By art, we beggarly the arts which may accommodate music, articulate interpretation, aesthetic autograph and the beheld arts. Now in abounding schools, art programs accept gone by the wayside due to account cuts. This is alike added of a acumen that if you appetite to apprentice to advise the arts to your students, you should appear to the assignment with activity and some aesthetic cerebration so you can booty advantage of this time back you can action acquaint in aesthetic development and appreciation.
Perhaps the biggest challenge of offering
art classes as part of the curriculum at the school where you teach is to get
kids who may not think they have artistic talent to take the course. In most cases art classes are not required
but you still want to be able to touch as much as the student body as possible
with an appreciation of the arts and give everyone a chance to take a stab at
making a bit of art themselves.
Much of the work that will go into letting
kids know its ok to take art even if they do not feel they have artistic talent
comes from the attitude of the teacher.
Too often art teachers send the message that they expect every student
to show noticeable artistic talent and that their grade may depend on their
ability to produce art that can be judged as "good" by the
teacher.
This creates huge stress in the students
because nobody can just "become artistic." And sending that message defeats the purpose
of offering a program in the arts to the students at your school in first
place. But if you can encourage a spirit
of play and exploration so that even students with no artistic talent at all
are willing to take the class just to "give it a try", learning how
art is made by making some of their own will be an enriching experience that
may instill a love of art in the student that could last a lifetime.
In the movie The Music Man, the professor
got two tone deaf children to sing "I love music mommy" as part of
his effort to bring band music to a small town in Iowa.
The pride those children and their parents showed more than offset that
the song they offered to their portents was pretty unrecognizable as real
music. But that scene is instructive in
what you want to achieve in your students by giving them a chance to learn to
create art with no regard for their talent one way or another. And don’t be surprised if a student takes
home a perfectly hideous artwork with pride and that piece of art becoming a
precious heirloom for that family not because it is good art but because it is
an expression of artistic feeling from a child who wanted to try something new
and did it.
Along with giving our students the basic
instructions in how to create works of art, don’t miss out on the opportunity
to give them a basic education in art
history and art appreciation. This may
be the greatest gift your art classes can give a child. If they come from your class with an
awareness of why Michelangelo is one of the greatest artists of all time, that
is a part of our cultural knowledge that will demonstrate that this child has
been given a broad and well rounded education.
Teaching art and art approbation can be one
of the most fulfilling forms of teaching that you can offer to the next
generation. Not only will the children
have a lot of fun discovering the artists inside them, you will have a great
time showing that side to them as well.
And all of that fun will make them better people which, after all, is
the goal of being an educator in the first place.
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