Revisited Response: Visual Arts in Education

Artful Teaching:

Integrating arts into standard curriculums creates another place for both students and

teachers to learn. Art in the classroom creates a third place for everything. Integrating arts into

the classroom creates a studio habit for teachers. Art instills a different kind of teaching. Art

should be placed in the center of the curriculum. Physically making art adds value to whatever is

being made. You can integrate art into a classroom without being a perfect artist.

Experiencing the Arts:

Visual arts are arts that are hands on. This makes it essential for children to learn or

participate in art in the classroom. We live in a visual world and some people have adapted to

learn visually. There is a learning process to art, you work your way up from the bottom, and that

is the way it should be taught. Different elements of art are line, shape, form, value, texture,

space, and color. There are several different principles of design, this is exactly how an artist

uses each element in the piece of artwork. Studio thinking requires eight different types of habits.

Art goes all the way back to the beginning of time and there is a lot of art history. The culture of

art has derived from its history. There are many different types of visual art. However, things

like coloring sheets, identical cute crafts, and different holiday arts, are not visual arts.

Noteworthy Point:

Art is like any other subject; it is about something. When something is being thought

about or discussed, there is also a deeper understanding. Art can even be the central

understanding. This stood out to me because it shows just why art should be taught like any other
subject. Like in reading, you learn from reading an article, so from art, you learn from

experiencing some type of art.

Question:

How do you place arts in the curriculum without losing necessary time for learning the

actual curriculum?

Revisited Response:

First, I want to answer my question. You teach the actual curriculum through visual art

lessons. For my AEP project we taught pattern, and contrasting colors through a visual art

activity. So, you do not lose time doing art, because it is part of the curriculum. We also created

pendulum art in class. Through this visual art lesson, we learned about the forces of motion and

gravity. So, through a visual art lesson, that I thought of as playing, I really learned something.

Teaching using art creates an environment that students might be more engaged in.