Showing posts with label Advocacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advocacy. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Friday, January 6, 2017
Friday, October 9, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
What is art and what is Art for?
videos to get us thinking about why people make art and WHAT IS ART anyway??
Creature Comforts USA - Art from ART 110F on Vimeo. (RATED PG!)
Creature Comforts USA - Art from ART 110F on Vimeo. (RATED PG!)
Friday, January 30, 2015
Art teaches students to be thinkers....
Art teachers teach creativity and innovation. They teach multiple answers to problems. They encourage mistakes and experimentation. They teach students to be thinkers – not memorizers.
Art teachers are teaching the essential skills that are necessary for students to be successful in this new age.
Read more about why "Art Teachers are the Most Important Teachers in the School" and how technology and the internet have changed how we need to educate our children.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Today is Art Advocacy Day!
Please join me in being an advocate for the arts in education!
Ask your child why he or she thinks the arts are an important part of the school day. Watch the video below for some insight on why we need art in school.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
How can you tell if your task is truly CREATIVE?
Above all, I value creativity in my art room. I am strongly opposed to art projects and crafts that give step-by-step instructions that lead all students to similar results. While I steer clear of these "cookie-cutter" projects, this article challenges me to make sure my art lessons are truly promote authentic creative thought as much as possible.
click here to read this article about promoting creativity in the classroom.
Here are five questions that I can ask myself to ensure that my lesson is truly creative:
1. Does is call for an original response?
2. Is it difficult, but rewarding?
3. Does it require collaboration?
4. Is student work diverse?
5. Do you need to put students' name on the work to identify the art maker?
“I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value. Creative work in any field often passes through typical phases. Sometimes what you end up with is not what you had in mind when you started. It’s a dynamic process that often involves making new connections, crossing disciplines and using metaphors and analogies.” Sir Ken Robinson
click here to read this article about promoting creativity in the classroom.
Here are five questions that I can ask myself to ensure that my lesson is truly creative:
1. Does is call for an original response?
2. Is it difficult, but rewarding?
3. Does it require collaboration?
4. Is student work diverse?
5. Do you need to put students' name on the work to identify the art maker?
“I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value. Creative work in any field often passes through typical phases. Sometimes what you end up with is not what you had in mind when you started. It’s a dynamic process that often involves making new connections, crossing disciplines and using metaphors and analogies.” Sir Ken Robinson
Friday, September 20, 2013
Why Arts Education Is Crucial
I feel incredibly lucky to work at two schools that value our arts programs and support them as we build our schedules and budgets. However, in education as a whole right now, there is a push to focus on the Common Core-- literacy and math. Of course these areas are immensely important, but it is equally important to recognize the role that the arts may play in helping children to achieve in all areas, including these Common Core subjects and areas of social and emotional growth. This article shows that there is a strong connection between art education and academic success and that the arts are essential to the development of our students.
From the article
"Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence," sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems. Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.
Involvement in the arts is associated with gains in math, reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking, and verbal skill. Arts learning can also improve motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork."
Click here to read the rest of this article.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Cheap Art Manifesto from Bread and Puppet Theater
Our Bread and Puppet artists-in-residence gave me this Cheap Art Manifesto poster on their last day at Waitsfield Elementary. I love it!
Friday, February 10, 2012
10 Lessons that Art Teaches
Written by Elliot Eisner, an ardent arts advocate, I originally found this from the April 2011 issue of Arts & Activities magazine. It's a short, succinct argument for the importance of art in education. Here it is:
1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solutionand that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.
1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solutionand that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Steve Jobs Quote
"We do not teach the arts to create great artists anymore than we teach math to create the next generation of mathematicians or language arts to create the next generation of writers. We teach the arts in our schools to create great people so they are empowered with skills and knowledge to be successful in life… to do great things regardless of the vocational pathway they choose." Steve Jobs
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
District Art Show at Red Hen Bakery
March is Youth Art Month!
Celebrate Youth Art Month with the fantastic artists of Washington West School District. For the week of March 1-6, artwork from all of the schools in the district will be on display at Red Hen Bakery in Middlesex. There is a closing reception on Sunday, March 6th at 4:00.
Celebrate Youth Art Month with the fantastic artists of Washington West School District. For the week of March 1-6, artwork from all of the schools in the district will be on display at Red Hen Bakery in Middlesex. There is a closing reception on Sunday, March 6th at 4:00.
Waitsfield students featured in the show are:
Claudia Derryberry
Anda Gully
Piper Lowe
Sasha Lawton
Taylor Magnant
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
"When art is taught well..."
When art is taught well, children are enthusiastic about learning; and when such is the case, art can influence the whole atmosphere of a school, and other fields of study seem to benefit by its good effects. Thinking becomes livelier, and children take a greater interest and pride both in their school and in themselves. School halls, classrooms, and the principal's office are changed from drab areas into places of real visual interest, and children proudly bring their parents to school to see exhibitions of work. Principals report a greater degree of cooperation not only among the children themselves but also among members of the teaching staff and between the public and the school. Most of all, successful teachers bring the student to believe that art matters. They also help parents understand why art is worth the time and money required, that it occupies a justifiable position in general education.
Hurwitz, A., & Day, M. (2007). Children and their art: Methods for the elementary school (8th ed.).
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