My Teaching Philosophy



She sat there silhouetted by the Christmas lights hanging from my classroom ceiling, the projector proudly illuminating examples of their next artistic problem to explore and solve. Her eyes widened with each passing slide and her legs jiggled about, anxious to release the creativity welling up inside. I glanced for only a moment at her hand as it raced to transfer her thoughts to paper. The presentation is over and the lights come on. The students are prepped and I signal them to begin sketching and planning. Then I see her, with her hand up in the air. She hands me the paper she’d been marking on during the presentation. It simply reads: “This is my happy place. Art is me.” For me, art education is my happy place. It’s the way I matter and it’s the way I teach kids they matter. I believe the art room is where we learn about ourselves. “Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.” I believe allowing students the freedom of choice in the art room encourages innovation and ignites talent. When trying to be innovative, we must remember that talented people don’t want to simply follow us; they want to work alongside us to create “the next.” I believe in working alongside my students. I believe in learning from my students. I believe in empowering them. They, after all, are the future. Therefore if I am to have a hand in the future condition of our world, I believe in making it a creative one in which kids do not just simply know how to follow directions, but know how to create their own. ................
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