Art Education and Skills it Develops

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J. McBride

Welcome parents, teacher, and students.  My name is Mrs. McBride and I am a graduate from Art Education program at School of Visual Art and Design at the University Of South Carolina.  I am so glad to be a part of your wonderful school and community.  I just can't wait to get to know your children in the upcoming school year and share in all their wonderful discoveries and creations in the exciting world of art. 

             I believe that to teach art is to inspire and create the future.  What a wondrous and bright future we have ahead of us in this day and age. It is an essential catalyst of the 21st century, helping to push the boarders of science, math, health, technology, history, and communication beyond the horizons.    Art will introduce a student to new exciting views and prospective on the world.  It can open doors as wide as the student's own imagination and creativity will allow them.  I believe art helps create, inspire, and invent every aspect of the world around us.  I believe in our children's abilities to use this for the benefit of all. My teaching goals are help students to become creative, actively productive, and intellectually & physically connected to the visual art. When participating in Art Education students learn, build, expand, and improve many fundamental skills that they will use later in life. Some of the skills they develop through art are:

Motor Skills Holding a paintbrush or a crayon and moving them around is an important element to developing fine motor skills. Several developmental milestones include artistic acts such as drawing a circle, beginning to use safety scissors, draw a square, and indicate cutting with scissors.

Confidence.  Participating in the arts helps grow self-confidence and mastering it build’s it even higher.  Students can see their own progress and self-monitor.

Visual Learning. Drawing, painting, and sculpting in art class help develop visual-spatial skills. Students can learn through visual aids of art and active participation of making art then just through text. Students learn how to interpret, criticize, and use visual information when in art classes.

Decision Making. The arts strengthen problem solving and critical thinking skills. Students actively get to make choices and decisions. They get to see how their choice effect the outcome of their works. Life skills at work.

Perseverance & Focus: Students learned that hard work and perseverance pay off by learning new techniques and creating works of art with their own hands.  They labor and watch as their ideas come to life after several failures and then success.



Mixed Media, Imagery Cities
YAW Fall 15,High School Age

Collaboration. Students will work together. They will share responsibility, compromise, and contribute to the group to achieve a common goal. A essential future skill.

Accountability. Art teaches students to be accountable for their contributions to the whole. They must take responsibility for their messes in the class room.  Student figure out that mistakes and trial and error are part of life and way of learning.

Creativity: Art allow kids to express themselves in multiple ways, A.K.A. “thinking outside the box!” Students get lots of practice thinking creatively and solving problems in creative ways, so in their future careers it will be second nature to them!

     

            There are several major ways I like to get our school, art program, students, and parents and community a chance to connect and interact, thus improve and promote relations. I plan to display student’s art work in public locations though out the year.  I will have a student art show at the end of the year for all grades.   I also like to involve the local community by having local artist, artistic parents, and creators as class guess speakers and demonstrators whenever possible.  I will integrate community themes into art lesson to help student take an active role in their community and increase personal pride.  The upper classman will be participating in an Art community improvement project every year as they graduation from High school.  I am very excited about this project and can't wait to see what our wonderful students come up with for the community.  
       I am always looking for artistic guests speakers for class.  I will be sending letter home with information about any Individuals artistic talent.  If you know anyone who works in an artistic field or profession you and maybe will to volunteer sometime as a guest speaker, please let me know.
         This is going to be a wonderful year for all the students; full of experimenting, learning, and expanding their understanding of the world around them.  I hope you are as enthralled to get started as I am. 
          Again my name is Mrs. Jeanmarie McBride Feel free to contact me with any concerns, information, or ideas you may have.   Thank-you.