TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
We owe it to our children to offer them all perspectives.
Young children as well as adolescents need lessons in spirituality, not religious, but self. They need to have a sense of the world around them and to know that they have a dynamic role in that world.
As an art teacher, I will try to incorporate different points of view using art as the vehicle. There are experiences one has in creating drawings, paintings, photographs and sculpture that cannot be understood in other ways. Art has always been representational of world attitudes and events. I hope to support students in creating art based on their own personal experiences in the world; to teach them that art can be a means of communicating their thoughts and emotions in a constructive way. I want to encourage students to thoughtfully critique each other’s work; to profoundly go beyond shape and color, to realize there are many perspectives and many answers. I hope to take experiences that have enlightened me and use them to foster and to advocate multiculturalism and inclusion whenever I can, whenever I see it not present.
I feel strongly that our children need multiple ways in which to express themselves to be able to comprehend the growing complexities of our world.
Young children as well as adolescents need lessons in spirituality, not religious, but self. They need to have a sense of the world around them and to know that they have a dynamic role in that world.
As an art teacher, I will try to incorporate different points of view using art as the vehicle. There are experiences one has in creating drawings, paintings, photographs and sculpture that cannot be understood in other ways. Art has always been representational of world attitudes and events. I hope to support students in creating art based on their own personal experiences in the world; to teach them that art can be a means of communicating their thoughts and emotions in a constructive way. I want to encourage students to thoughtfully critique each other’s work; to profoundly go beyond shape and color, to realize there are many perspectives and many answers. I hope to take experiences that have enlightened me and use them to foster and to advocate multiculturalism and inclusion whenever I can, whenever I see it not present.
I feel strongly that our children need multiple ways in which to express themselves to be able to comprehend the growing complexities of our world.