MAKE ART. BE AWESOME.

As cliche as it might sound, the reason I want to teach is to make a difference.  Teachers play an influential role in a student's life not just for the time you have them in your class but for their life.  A student will remember a good teacher as well as a bad one and what they learned from them.  A teacher not only instills an education into a student's life but morals, manners, and goals as well. I believe that it is my job as a teacher to encourage and teach students how to be the best that they can be in all of these areas and a great art program is the perfect environment to do this.

 

Art along with firm, fair, and consistent classroom management allows every student to increase positive attitudes towards self, others, and the environment through creative experiences. Problem solving and creative learning encourage students to connect visual knowledge to other subjects and to respond with innovation, understanding, flexibility and imagination. Through an exploration of art and art history I believe that students can achieve an understanding of our world and different cultures and recognize that differences are to be welcomed not rejected.                                                           

 

I think that an education in the arts stimulates the imagination, develops self-esteem and encourages openness towards the opinions of others. Art offers opportunities to students that are not available through other subjects alone. Art is connected to almost every subject in a school’s curriculum.   

                                                                                                                 

My goal is to teach students that there is no exact way to create art, that sometimes there are obstacles they may need to overcome and I want to instill in my students that art is personal, individual, and may create different reactions than expected, but to understand that any reaction is better than no reaction. I believe young students are open to criticism, but as they mature they become more sensitive to peer reactions, they are conscious of individualism and often fear being labeled as different from the crowd. I want my students to explore their uniqueness and accept being an individual rather than hiding within the crowd.